Open Online Courses
We offer free, self-paced courses on how technology can be used to build peace, including using data for peace, transformative online conversations, responsible and effective design processes, developing strategic communications for peace, and more. You can take the courses on our website or via WhatsApp.
Digital Peacebuilding
Digital Deliberation
Social Media Listening for conflict analysis
These courses cover a broad range of topics on how technology can be used to build peace, including using data for peace, transformative online conversations, responsible and effective design processes, developing strategic communications for peace, and more.
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Email us at learning@howtobuildup.org to discuss a tailored course for your organization or team. We have developed courses for UNHCR, the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), the British Council, Danmission, Christian Aid, Interpeace, RSA, the Mozambique Peace Secretariat, and more.
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Digital Peacebuilding
Explore how technology can support conflict prevention, dialogue, and long-term peacebuilding. Learn practical tools and approaches for analysing online narratives, identifying risks, and designing interventions that strengthen social cohesion in fragile contexts.
Digital Deliberation
Understand how to design and facilitate inclusive digital conversations at scale. This section covers tools and methods for gathering public input, mapping consensus and disagreement, and supporting evidence-based decision-making through participatory processes.
Social Media Analysis
Build skills to monitor, analyse, and interpret online conversations in conflict. Learn how to track narratives, identify key actors, and generate insights that inform programming, policy, and rapid response in dynamic information environments.
Digital Inclusion
Learn how digital technologies can be made more accessible, equitable, and representative. Learn strategies to bridge digital divides, amplify underrepresented voices, and ensure inclusive participation in digital processes.
Design Solutions
Learn how to design responsible, context-aware technology solutions. This section focuses on translating insights into action through user-centred design, ethical AI, and practical tools tailored to real-world challenges.
Machine Learning for Peacebuilding
Learn how to build and use classifiers for detecting harmful content, analyse patterns in large datasets, and develop context-aware AI systems that support early warning, risk analysis, and informed decision-making.
Peacebuilders and mediators need technological solutions to empower the work they do!
These courses prepare you to integrate technology into your peacebuilding and mediation work