Please join the Alliance for Peacebuilding on Thursday, August 5th at 11:00am ET for its Tech4Peace Series event: Introductory Workshop on GIS for Peacebuilding.

Digital technology has great capacity to visualize, conceptualize, and address violence and conflict in new and innovative ways.  Technology is a force-multiplier, allowing data developers, users, and policymakers innovative ways to enhance and accelerate our peacebuilding work. When it comes to monitoring and evaluation, the use of geographic information systems (GIS) has great potential as a peacebuilding support tool to  identify, track, and map armed conflict, violence, displaced populations, and ongoing human rights abuses.

Join us for an introductory workshop with the Data Science for Sustainable Development (DSSD) team to learn about how to use and apply GIS and data science in your peacebuilding programming. We’ll learn more about uses for and sources of spatial data, work on an interactive exercise together, and explore multiple demos for software to start your GIS and data science journey.