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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452768103321

Autore

Bock Joseph G.

Titolo

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

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.