ICT4Peace Commentary – ICT4Peace Foundation

14. October 2025

Sanjana Hattotuwa on Social Media, Democracy and Violence in South Asia

Background note by Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa for an online seminar the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) on 30 September 2025 titled 'Big Tech and the Misinformation Crisis in South Asia'.

Social Media, Democracy, and Violence in South Asia By Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation Background note for an online seminar organised by the Center for the Study of ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, Digital Sovereignty, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet

15. February 2025

The Paris AI Action Summit: The cleavages over global governance made apparent

While the US and UK failed to endorse the Summit’s final statement, China did, no doubt with an eye to the future and playing a leading role on AI governance. By Amb. Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation and Adjunct Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University

The Paris AI Summit: The cleavages over global governance made apparent While the US and UK failed to endorse the Summit’s final statement, China did, no doubt with an eye ...

Paris Peace Forum, The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, ICT4Peace Commentary, Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security

24. December 2024

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa’s article: “We are engaged in a world war of stories – a war between incompatible versions of reality – and we need to learn how to fight it.” Salman Rushdie, Knife

Article by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace for the The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

“We are engaged in a world war of stories – a war between incompatible versions of reality – and we need to learn how to fight it.” Salman Rushdie, Knife ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, IFRC, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In

1. October 2024

“Private Actors, State Responsibility – What lessons does the private security industry hold for regulating private sector actors in cyberspace?”

Case Study by Anne-Marie Buzatu and James Siebens for the Stimson Report on Cyber Accountability

As part of the Stimson Report: “Cyber Accountability – Improving cyber accountability and deterring malicious cyber activity” (see the full report here), Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director of ICT4Peace and James ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Activities, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS

18. August 2023

ICT4Peace comments on the proposed new Swiss International Cooperation (IC) Strategy 2025 – 2028

Strategies for international cooperation to build a sustainable cyberspace for economic and social development, human dignity and implementing SDGs are absent.

Comments and recommendations from the ICT4Peace Foundation on the new proposed Strategy for the Swiss International Cooperation 2025 – 2028 (IC Message 25 – 28) The proposed IC Strategy 2025 ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, Activities, Policy Research