Trends in ecology and evolution

• Record Nr.: UNINA990009070000403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : North-Holland
• ISSN: 0169-5347
• Disciplina: 574.5; 577
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

The technology of nonviolence : social media and violence prevention / / Joseph G. Bock ; foreword by John Paul Lederach

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452768103321
• Autore: Bock Joseph G.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2012; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2012]
• ISBN: 1-282-13379-9; 9786613806376; 0-262-30555-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6/1
• Soggetti: Nonviolence; Violence - Prevention; Social media; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Towards an applied theory of violence prevention -- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities -- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad -- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago -- ; Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka -- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya -- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa -- Comparing the approaches -- How to intervene effectively -- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work -- Concerns about misallocation of resources -- Future directions and recommendations.
• Sommario/riassunto: How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka.