Central Library

Normal view MARC view ISBD view

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

By: Bock, Joseph G [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2012Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2012]Description: 1 PDF (xxi, 288 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 1282133799; 9781282133792; 9780262305556.Subject(s): Nonviolence | Violence -- Prevention | Social media | Multi-UserGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 303.6/1 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
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.
Summary: How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka.
    average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

AC-SUB

CatBulkString:september.30.13

CatMonthString:september.13

Multi-User.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka.

Also available in print.

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.

There are no comments for this item.

Log in to your account to post a comment.