ICT4Peace Foundation was asked by the United Nations DESA to lead the UN GAID Community of Expertise, which will address the fundamental question how ICTs can be best used for identifying conflict situations through early warning systems, preventing conflicts, promoting their peaceful resolution, mediation and reconciliation, supporting humanitarian action, including protection of civilians in armed conflicts, facilitating peacekeeping missions, and assisting post conflict peace-building and reconstruction. It will support concrete projects and operations in this field, carry out targeted networking, original research, policy development and advocacy.