Crowd Behaviour Network
http://www.crowdbehaviournetwork.org/ Recently launched international forum for academic research on crowd behaviour, management and safety. Currently includes news and recent UK government sponsored reports on understanding crowd behaviours. http://crowdbehaviournetwork.org/work/research/
How far will technology companies go in helping repressive regimes
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Corporate_Responsibility_070512.pdf Interesting report on corporate responsibility from pew Internet and American Life and Elon University. Based on over 1,000 response from executives to questions relating to the issue ‘how will technology firms around the world operate when they are confronted by situations in which optimal product sales and profits can be made only when they […]
Learn to Communicate with Crisis-Affected Communities
http://infoasaid.org/e-learning/course/start Infoasaid Launches E-Learning Course on Humanitarian Communication a new, free online learning course. Communication is Aid, aims to raise awareness and build basic skills for communicating effectively with crisis-affected communities, before and after an emergency breaks. Topics covered include crafting messages. Useful example of how social media can be used for crisis communication.
Peace
The Peace Accords Matrix from the Kroc Institute of International peace studies. http://peaceaccords.nd.edu/ creates visualisation graphs relating to peace agreements that have been signed since 1989. It is possible to chart on over 50 themes, to compare and contrast and also to review the full text of the peace accord, a timeline of important dates and events […]
Crowdsourcing and the Crisis-Affected Community: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward From Mission 4636
http://robertmunro.com/mission4636.pdf This article reports on Mission 4636, a real-time humanitarian crowdsourcing initiative that processed 80,000 text messages (SMS) sent from within Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. It was the first time that crowdsourcing (microtasking) had been used for international relief efforts, and is the largest deployment of its kind to date. This article presents analysis […]
Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Leicestershire and Rutland
The latest report of HM Inspectorate of Probation on the Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Leicestershire and Rutland is now published.
Observatoire de l’Afrique
http://www.obsafrique.eu/ A network of European and African institutes and experts on peace and security issues in Africa. Partners include such high profile organisations as African Studies Centre University of Oxford, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center & The Nordic Africa Institute. The website provides free access to information from the network of members plus its […]
Hate Crime USA
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/violence-crime/comparison-hate-crime-rates-update/ According to a new study from the Williams Institute, gay men face higher rates of hate-motivated physical violence than lesbians, bisexuals or other federally protected groups with high rates of hate crimes. The Study is the first to consider FBI data on hate crimes against lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals separately The bibliography includes […]
Arab social media report
http://www.dsg.ae/en/asmr3/index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 Dubai University has been conducting surveys of the use of social media in the Arab uprising. It includes mappings by age gender and use of specific tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
Social Science Bites
Podcasts of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. Published by Sage. http://www.socialsciencebites.com/
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