We believe that a cross-sectoral approach will derive the highest results.

Our members are a global network of technologists, peacebuilders, researchers and policy influencers.

Together, we are dedicated to shaping technology for social cohesion through influencing policy, practice and products. 

 

Meet the Council Co-Chairs

Ravi Iyer , Psychology of Technology Institute/USC Neely Center

Kristin Hansen , Civic Health Project

Lena Slachmuijlder , Search for Common Ground

 

Our Members

Aws Al-Saadi
Tech4Peace

 

Wasim Almasri
Alliance for Middle East Peace

 

Habibou Bako
Search for Common Ground Mali

 

Maud Bakirdjian
Search for Common Ground West Africa

 

Guy Banim
Build Up

 

Ehab Badwi
Syrian Youth Assembly

 

Susan Benesch
The Dangerous Speech Project

 

Renee Black
GoodBot

 

Adrienne Brooks
Independent

 

Yee Carter
Integrity Institute / Trust & Safety Professional Association / Marketplace Risk

 

Peter Chapman
Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI)

 

Allan Cheboi
Build Up

 

Mohamed Doumbia
ImmersIA

 

Mahamane F Djitteye
The Timbuktu Center for Strategic Studies on the Sahel

 

Glenn Ellingson
Civic Health Project / Integrity Institute

 

Leah Ferentinos
Integrity Institute

 

Ross Foreman
Goodwall

 

Eloïse Gabadou

Independent

 

Brittney Gallagher
AI Objectives Institute
CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation

 

 

Megan Grazier
Build Up

 

Antonella Guidoccio
Exygy

 

 

 

Mosaic Foundation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Samara Papieva
Search for Common Ground (Kyrgyzstan)

 

Osiris Parikh
Tripadvisor

 

Helena Puig Larrauri
Build Up

 

Urbano Reviglio
European University Institute

 

Bri Riggio
Discord

 

Omar Salem
Search for Common Ground

 

Dr. Lisa Schirch
University of Notre Dame / Toda Peace Institute
Protect Democracy 

 

Theodora Skeadas
Humane Intelligence

 

Stefan Snel
Tales of Turning

 

Victoria Stanski
Common Good AI

 

Jonathan Stray
UC Berkeley

 

Jenna-Lee Strugnell
Tales of Turning

 

Bilal Taïrou
African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA)

 

Ernest Thiessen
Smartsettle

 

Sylvia Thompson
CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation
AI & Democracy Foundation

 

Tariba Traoré
FEMNET: African Women’s Development and Communications Network

 

Elodie Vialle
Independent

 

Hen Wilkinson
University of Bristol / Community Resolve

 

Ben Windeler
Digital Public Square

 

Nick Zuroski
Alliance for Peacebuilding

 

Ravi Iyer
Psychology of Technology Institute/USC Neely Center

Ravi is the Managing Director of the Psychology of Technology Institute, a project of the University of Southern California Marshall School’s Neely Center. As a technologist and academic psychologist, his work focuses on improving technology’s impact on society. In his prior role at Meta, he led data science, research and product teams to improve the product’s societal impact. Ravi has coauthored dozens of highly cited empirical articles about individual values, political opinions, polarization and technology. He cofounded and was the initial Chief Data Scientist at Ranker.com.

Learn more about Ravi here.

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Kristin Hansen
Kristin is the Executive Director of Civic Health Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing massively scalable solutions to society’s dangerous divisions.

 

Since 2019, through grant programs, in-house projects, thought leadership, and field-building, Civic Health Project has scaled grassroots bridging programs across the U.S., expanded the entertainment industry’s focus on bridging divides, and developed a social cohesion measurement framework that is being deployed globally.

 

Today, Civic Health Project focuses primarily on exploring the role of technology in resolving conflict, improving civil discourse and deliberation, and fostering social cohesion.
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Lena Slachmuijlder
Search for Common Ground

Lena is the Senior Advisor for Digital Peacebuilding at Search for Common Ground, where she supports and elevates the use of digital tools for conflict transformation across Search’s programs. She has 30 years of experience working for peaceful social change, starting as a journalist with anti-apartheid media in South Africa, and pioneering creative media tools for peacebuilding over the last two decades. She led the design of the Common Ground Approach core curriculum, and published ‘Transforming Violent Extremism: a Peacebuilder’s guide.  Lena is a graduate of Stanford University, an alumni of Amsterdam’s THNK School for Creative Leadership and Brandeis University’s fellowship on Arts and Reconciliation. In 2020, Lena gave a TEDx talk entitled ‘The Vaccine to End War’.

 

Learn more about Lena here.

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