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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18349.
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Appendix B

Attendees

NAE-USIP Roundtable:
Workshop on Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts

October 11, 2012

National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 120
Washington, DC

Cochairs

Prabhakar Raghavan

Vice President of Engineering

Google

Lawrence Woocher Research Director SAIC

Steering Committee Members

Dennis King

Senior Humanitarian Affairs Analyst

Humanitarian Information Unit

US Department of State

Neil Levine

Director, Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation

US Agency for International Development

Patrick Vinck

Research Scientist, Department of Global Health and Population

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Duncan Watts

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research

Expert Participants

Joseph Bock

Director of Global Health Training, Eck Institute for Global Health

University of Notre Dame

Richard Boly

Director, Office of eDiplomacy

US Department of State

Jim Coffey

The MITRE Corporation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18349.
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David Combs

Aerospace Experimental Psychologist

Naval Research Laboratory

Noel Dickover

New Media Advisor, Office of eDiplomacy

US Department of State

Katie Dowd

Innovation Advisor to the Secretary

US Department of State

Christina Goodness

Chief, Peacekeeping Information Management Unit

United Nations

Melanie Greenberg

President and CEO

Alliance for Peacebuilding

Rita Grossman-Vermaas

Senior International Policy Advisor

Logos Technologies, Inc.

Nate Haken

Senior Associate

The Fund for Peace

Sanjana Hattotuwa

Special Advisor

ICT4Peace

Joseph Hewitt

Evaluation Specialist

US Agency for International Development

Emmanuel Letouzé

Technology Consultant

UN Global Pulse

Matthew Levinger

Director, National Security Studies Program

George Washington University

Bob Loftis

Independent Consultant

Philippe Loustaunau

Open Source Indicators Program

IARPA

Kay McGowan

Senior Policy Advisor for Afghanistan

US Agency for International Development

Patrick Meier

Director of Social Innovation

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Libbie Prescott

Strategic Advisor to Science and Technology

Advisor to the Secretary

US Department of State

Rafal Rohozinski

Principal

The SecDev Group

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18349.
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Elmer Roman

Oversight Executive, Office of the Secretary of Defense

US Department of Defense

Ivan Sigal

Executive Director

Global Voices

Chris Spence

Chief Technology Officer

National Democratic Institute

Maria Wrzosek

Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

US Department of State

Staff Participants

Genève Bergeron

Program Assistant

US Institute of Peace

Jeff Canfield

Interagency Professional in Residence

US Institute of Peace

Sheldon Himelfarb

Director, Center of Innovation for Science, Technology and Peacebuilding

US Institute of Peace

Sue Nelson

Interagency Professional in Residence

US Institute of Peace

Greg Pearson

Senior Program Officer

National Academy of Engineering

Proctor Reid

Director of Programs

National Academy of Engineering

Andrew Robertson

Senior Program Officer

US Institute of Peace

Ryan Shelby

Christine Mirzayan Science &Technology Policy Fellow, J. Herbert Hollomon Fellow

National Academy of Engineering

Frederick S. Tipson

Special Advisor, Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding

US Institute of Peace

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18349.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18349.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Attendees." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18349.
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Technology has revolutionized many aspects of modern life, from how businesses operate, to how people get information, to how countries wage war. Certain technologies in particular, including not only cell phones and the Internet but also satellites, drones, and sensors of various kinds, are transforming the work of mitigating conflict and building peaceful societies. Rapid increases in the capabilities and availability of digital technologies have put powerful communications devices in the hands of most of the world's population.

These technologies enable one-to-one and one-to-many flows of information, connecting people in conflict settings to individuals and groups outside those settings and, conversely, linking humanitarian organizations to people threatened by violence. Communications within groups have also intensified and diversified as the group members use new technologies to exchange text, images, video, and audio. Monitoring and analysis of the flow and content of this information can yield insights into how violence can be prevented or mitigated. In this way technologies and the resulting information can be used to detect and analyze, or sense, impending conflict or developments in ongoing conflict.

On October 11, 2012, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) held a workshop in Washington, DC, to identify "major opportunities and impediments to providing better real-time information to actors directly involved in situations that could lead to deadly violence." The workshop brought together experts in technology, experts in peacebuilding, and people who have worked at the intersections of those two fields on the applications of technology in conflict settings, to consider uses of technology to sense emerging and ongoing conflicts and provide information and analyses that can be used to prevent violent and deadly conflict. Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Joint Workshop of the National Academy of Engineering and the United States Institute of Peace: Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding summarizes the workshop.

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