SalamaTech: Harnessing Technology to Advance Peacebuilding
Our own Anwar Abas participated in a debate on PeaceTech earlier today. The panel session, hosted by the Centre for Security and Governance, is part... Read More
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Women, Violent extremism and the Internet: Empowering Prevention – 6 March 2017
On March 6th the CIC National Capital Branch, in cooperation with the SecDev Foundation, hosted the event, Women, Violent Extremism and the Internet: Empowering Prevention;... Read More
Online Extremism in Central Asia: Repression is not Effective, But What’s the Alternative?
The SecDev Foundation recently co-hosted a Central Asia Security Forum workshop on Countering Violent Extremism Online. One key take away from the forum is the... Read More
Women, Technology & Partnerships – Countering Terrorist use of the Internet
The CIC National Capital Branch, in cooperation with the SecDev Foundation, present a special panel on “Women, Technology & Partnerships-countering terrorist use of the Internet” on... Read More
United Against Extremism – 7 March 2017
United Against Extremism: How the UN and Tech Companies are Confronting Online Hate The SecDev Foundation is a proud co-host of a special event called... Read More
CBC: Rafal Rohozinski on Russian Hacking Report
Our own Rafal Rohozinski was on CBC’s Power & Politics discussing the Russian hacking report released by U.S. intelligence officials last week. Listen to the full... Read More
Violent Extremism on-line: Drivers, Evidence and a Way Forward
What are the drivers of violent extremism on-line? What do we know about its impact? How do we engage industry and leverage the potential of... Read More
Introducing the Human Rights Documentation Toolkit
The SecDev Foundation is proud to introduce the Human Rights Documentation Toolkit. Developed in partnership with the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), the Human Rights... Read More
Trading Nukes: Does Canada need a new North Korea policy?
An immersive cultural experience hosted by the Intelligence Futures Working Group – Thursday 20th of October 2016 North Korea matters. A war on the Korean... Read More
PeaceTech and the Syrian Conflict: What Canadians Are Doing
Join us on 30 September 2016 at Ottawa’s Peace Festival as we share our experience with PeaceTech and the Syrian conflict. Peacetech in Syria The... Read More
Peacetech and the Syrian Conflict: New Report By The British Council
The British Council recently published a new report looking at peacetech initiatives responding to the Syrian crisis. Our own projects – SalamaTech and Be Heard... Read More
Canada and the Digital Economy: Youth, Talent, and Innovation
Join the CIC National Capital Branch for Politics @ the Pub: Canada and the Digital Economy: Youth, Talent, and Innovation Monday, September 19th 18:00 – 20:30 On... Read More
Look Beyond the CVE Buzzwords; See the People
With all the talk of countering violent extremism (CVE), it can be easy to lose sight of the most important aspect of any conflict: people.... Read More
China’s Rising Cyber Power: Assessing the Implications
The Canadian International Council (CIC) National Capital Branch, Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) and the SecDev Foundation present: China’s Rising Cyber Power:... Read More
Why Helping Syrians is Harder than it Should Be
While the Syrian civil war continues to rage more than five years on, the challenges in helping Syrians caught in conflict grow. The U.N. estimates that... Read More
Where do Rio de Janeiro’s crime guns come from?
By Robert Muggah originally for OpenDemocracy The vast majority of firearms in the hands of the population are of Brazilian origin. Its control is the... Read More
Quantitative Methods for Human Rights: From Statistics to “Big Data”
The following paper is the unedited version of a chapter by our own fellow Antoine Nouvet and Frédéric Mégret that will eventually be published in “Research... Read More
Urban Governance in Fragile Cities
By Robert Muggah originally for GSDRC The planet is urbanising at a rapid pace. There is not agreed definition of what constitutes a city, however... Read More
The Unsung Heroes of Syria: Voices of Resilience
There are many unsung heroes in Syria. We are lucky enough to work with some of these Voices of Resilience. Earlier this week, one of... Read More
California’s Gangs Go Digital and Global
By Robert Muggah and Julian Way for the Council on Foreign Relations Around the world, social media is being colonized not just by extremist groups like the... Read More