'Father of the Internet' Cerf, Security Thinker Lute Talk Peace & Conflict
Channel: United States Institute of Peace
Date: 2014-09-25

As technology advances rapidly around the world, what does that mean for conflict? Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and one of the "fathers of the Internet," and Jane Holl Lute, a former U.N. Peacekeeping and U.S. Government Official, took on that question at the U.S. Institute of Peace last week. 

They spoke together at the PeaceTech Summit on September 19. The summit, co-hosted with the National Academy of Engineering, brought together corporate and government officials, engineers, technologists and civic activists to discuss how technology is being used in conflict zones. The event also marked the launch of USIP's PeaceTech Lab, a new organization dedicated to developing and deploying technologies, media and data for conflict management and peacebuilding.

Watch their entire conversation, moderated by Robert Ricigliano, Chair of the Board of the Alliance for Peacebuilding: http://youtu.be/fSx8F9KhfIE?t=4h17m51s

For more information about the PeaceTech Summit, visit: http://www.usip.org/publications/entrepreneurs-hunt-peace-tech-defuse-conflict

Watch the entire summit: http://www.usip.org/events/peacetech-summit-engineering-durable-peace