Engineering Peace

7.21.2021

Play a movie clip

Extra credit points if you know:

1. Title of movie
2. Year it came out
3. Director
4. 8 Lead Characters
5. Costume designers

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1. Title of movie
1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2. Year it came out
• 1990
3. Director
• Steve Barron
4. 8 Lead Characters
• Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, Splinter, April O-Neil, Casey Jones and Shredder.
5. Costume designers
• Jim Henson

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Agenda

• Learning Outcomes
• Independent work on Podcast creation and Presentation

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of today, you should be able to…

1. Describe how technology can be used to promote peace
2. Compare and contrast different types of technology for creating empathy

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Definition of Peace

How can we define peace?

We can define peace as a set of positive, prosocial behaviors that maximize mutually beneficial positive outcomes resulting from interactions with others.

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Engineering peace: creating tools for positive social change

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Discussion questions from homework

1 How do we wage peace?

2 How would you describe peacetech? Is it a valuable organization?

3 What are your thoughts on the Syria airlift video? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-syria-airlift-project#/

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How can we use technology to promote peace?

40 min

In groups of 3-4 read your assigned article and answer questions related to the article. Build a 3-5 slide slidedeck to present to the class on your article.

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Follow up activity

Engineering Peace

We just read some examples and articles: What are other ways one can do peace engineering?

What are considerations to keep in mind? (Ex: Ayodole’s example with facial recognition drones)

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May 14th is our last day of class!

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We will present our podcasts, fill out a survey about the class, say goodbye :-)

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Presentation of Podcasts July 30

5 min presentation: Promo clip of podcast

• Play 30-60 seconds of audio of the podcast clip
• Showcase your artwork
• Brief outline of the podcast
• Discuss what you are most proud of
• Discuss your biggest challenge and how you overcame it
• Outline any future directions you would want to take the podcast

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TT 1

1. Engineering Empathy: https://peer.asee.org/engineering-empathy-a-multidisciplinary-approach-combining-engineering-peace-studies-and-drones (relatively good article)
2. Cyber Elections in the digital age: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/elj.2020.0633
3. Peace Data: Using Tech to examine intergroup interactions. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00734/full (short article good)
4. Designing and building drones for humanitarian purposes: https://peer.asee.org/peace-engineering-investigating-multidisciplinary-and-interdisciplinary-effects-in-a-team-based-course-about-drones (relatively short article)
5. Peace Tech Lab: How we build peace: https://www.peacetechlab.org/we-build-peace (explore website, explain their mission, how they go about their work, who they are associated with)
6. MA in Peace Engineering: https://drexel.edu/engineering/academics/areas-of-study-programs/peace-engineering/ (investigate MA program, explain it, where you could work after, what degrees it has, prerequisites etc…)
7. Monitoring Hate Speech: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/8/846/files/2018/12/Monitoring-Hate-Speech-in-the-US-Media-12_20-without-findings-1mg6txr.pdf

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