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By Joseph G. Bock

Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rally supporters and disseminate info because the "Arab Spring" started to spread in 2010. much less popular, yet with simply as a lot strength to lead to social swap, are ongoing neighborhood efforts to exploit social media and other kinds of know-how to avoid lethal outbreaks of violence. within the know-how of Nonviolence, Joseph Bock describes and records technology-enhanced efforts to prevent violence earlier than it occurs in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.. as soon as peacekeeping used to be the purview of foreign observers, yet this present day neighborhood voters take violence prevention into their very own palms. those neighborhood methods usually contain technology--including using electronic mapping, crowdsourcing, and mathematical development popularity to spot most probably destinations of violence--but, as Bock indicates, technological advances are of little worth until they're utilized by a educated cadre of neighborhood organizers. After masking basic options in violence prevention and describing technological methods to monitoring clash and cooperation, Bock deals 5 case reviews that variety from "low-tech" interventions to avoid ethnic and non secular violence in Ahmedebad, India, to an anti-gang initiative in Chicago that makes use of moment lifestyles to coach its "violence interrupters." there's reliable proof of luck, Bock concludes, yet there's a lot to be chanced on, built, and, most vital, carried out.