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CIC in the news

Is There a Place For Women in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan?
Sep 23, 2021

CIC senior fellow Rina Amiri appeared on NBC's LX discussing how the Taliban plans to reopen schools for boys but not for girls, and what this means for Afghan society.

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Rina Amiri
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Biden calls for cooperation, diplomacy in UN General Assembly address
Sep 23, 2021

CIC director Sarah Cliffe appeared on ABC News, commenting on President Biden's first speech at the UN General Assembly.

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Sarah Cliffe
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Past Events

Data for Peace Dialogue: Using AI for Fighting Modern Slavery - Lessons for Peacebuilding

Jul 27, 2021

Over 40 million people today are trapped in modern slavery and conditions of severe exploitation worldwide. One in four of them are children, and almost 71 percent are women and girls. Governments are already behind in their commitment to eradicate modern slavery and achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 by 2030. Data about this form of human rights abuses and vulnerabilities can be difficult to collect and patterns of exploitation difficult to see. On top of that, armed conflict, natural disasters, and other humanitarian settings increase vulnerability to certain forms of forced labor, modern slavery, human trafficking, and child labor. In response, some organizations and researchers are looking into available data and the potential of computational science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning tools to help stop modern slavery.

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Data for Peace Dialogue: Future of Mediation and Peacemaking with Emerging Technologies

Jun 29, 2021

Join the June Data for Peace Dialogue to hear more on the latest and potential future applications of emerging technologies and tools to advance the mediation and peacemaking and discuss challenges and risks they are bringing.

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Upcoming Events

Data for Peace Dialogue: “Do No Harm” In The Digital Age

Sep 28, 2021

Data science methods can bring immense potential to support peacebuilding and humanitarian work. However, we must recognize that these methods come with an extreme risk to both the privacy and lives of vulnerable populations if the data is misused or used inappropriately. Although these risks exist across different contexts, the sensitive nature of conflict or violence affected areas uniquely exacerbates these challenges. In order to “do no harm,” we must be able to understand and tackle the technical and ethical issues of working with data about crisis-affected people.

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Data for Peace Discovery Day

Oct 22, 2021

New York University’s Center on International Cooperation will be hosting a Data for Peace Discovery Day for mission-driven organizations in the peacebuilding and conflict field to advance their work through data and emerging technologies.

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