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Guy Patrick Banim

@guybanim.eurosky.social
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EU preventive diplomacy, mediation & digital peacebuilding | Build Up ˆ | Visiting Professor @collegeofeurope | Feminist | Irish or British or both - always European | live from Tirana 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🇵🇹 🕊️ howtobuildup.org/about-build-up/tea…

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Global Focus @globaltfokus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us for an online conversation next week with sci-fi author @doctorow.pluralistic.net and Dr. Grace Githaiga, CEO of KICTANet about the role of civil society in the shifting geopolitics of the digital world 🎙️ Register here: riverside.com/webinar/regi... Hosted by @henrikchulu.bsky.social
Community Call: How to govern technology in a multipolar digital world. Tuesday 6 October at 15.00 UTC 

Register on connectingcurrent.tech. Photos of speakers Cory Doctorow and Dr. Grace Githaiga, CEO at KICTANet. Digital Democracy Initiative
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Conciliation Resources @crbuildpeace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In this @fpcthinktank.bsky.social article, @alexballingermp.bsky.social and our Policy Manager @alastaircarr.bsky.social draw on the conclusions in the #PeaceWorksReport, which makes the case for increased investment in conflict prevention by the UK government.
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Op-ed | Conflict Prevention Has Never Been More Important - The Foreign Policy Centre
Alex Ballinger MP and Alastair Carr argue that the UK must invest in conflict prevention and peacebuilding as global conflict and security risks grow.
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Berghof Foundation @berghoffnd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can transactional deal-making deliver peace? Originally in @megatrends-afrika.de, Narine Karapetyan & Karoline Eickhoff explore the promises & pitfalls of transactional peace mediation drawing on the tension between short-term interests & long-term peace. 👉: berghof-foundation.org/news/transac...
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Berghof Foundation @berghoffnd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Civilian conflict management and #peacebuilding matter more than ever. At BeiratZKP's #BerlinPeaceDialogue on 8 Oct, our Luxshi Vimalarajah joins the opening panel, while our Chris Coulter moderates the closing on #Germany’s role in mediation. 👉: beirat-zivile-krisenpraevention.org/en/event/ber...
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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Enough with always responding to the bullies. Very good initiative of @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu. Lets go out and build an alliance for multilateral action. Watchwords are defend and reform. Need to do both. Joint push with 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇰🇪 and surely more to come. ↘️
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Multilateralism is not idealism, it is a necessity
We need to strengthen our system of co-operation, not replace it
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Agora Citizen Network @agoracitizen.network · 17/09/2026
How to make open Civic Tech sustainable? This is a topic we're exploring next Tuesday, at @metagov.bsky.social. Our facilitation partner, @apreslabiere.fr will join us for the short presentation, followed by an open discussion. We look forward to meeting you there! luma.com/l445uzxj?tk=...
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Community Call: Deliberative & Democratic Tech hosted by Metagov x CrownShy (#6) · Zoom · Luma
Our Sixth Community Call - Tuesday, September 22nd Idealism in Practice: Making Open Civic Tech Sustainable The case for open source in civic tech has been…
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GPP & Geneva Peace Forum @gpplatform.ch · 17/09/2026
🕊️ For the first time at the Geneva Peace Forum: Mediation in Focus. Across a connected series of events, the track will examine how mediation can remain effective, principled and responsive in complex conflict environments. 🔗 Explore the events: www.genevapeaceforum.ch/en/gpf26/new...
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Berghof Foundation @berghoffnd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Peace is not made in a single agreement. It is built daily by rebuilding trust, keeping dialogue open and supporting the those doing the invisible work. Join our #PeaceDay2026 event where peacebuilders from #Catalonia and #Uganda will share their stories. 👉Register now: brnw.ch/21x5IRm
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ICTJ @theictj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The priorities of victims and Sudanese civilians must be central to peacebuilding efforts in #Sudan. Learn more about the policy roundtable that we convened today along with the gvt of the Netherlands in The Hague to highlight the voices of Sudanese civil society. 👇 tinyurl.com/y7bxt58x
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Sudanese Victims and Civil Society Leaders Set Out Justice Priorities for Durable Peace | International Center for Transitional Justice
As Sudan’s devastating conflict enters its fourth year, the priorities of victims and Sudanese civilians must be central to efforts to end the violence and build sustainable peace. Against this backdr...
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Munich Security Conference @munsecconf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📢 We are delighted to announce that Helga Maria Schmid and @jensstoltenberg.bsky.social are to become Co-Chairs of the MSC. They will take over from long-time Chair Wolfgang Ischinger ahead of #MSC2027. Read the press release: securityconference.org/en/news/full...
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Vardon Hamdiu | Sparkable @vardon.world · 14/09/2026
Moving @sparkable.cc to the AT Protocol is the most exciting update since I started this project years ago. We're a nonprofit organization building healthier social media. More updates soon!
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Do the pros outweigh the cons when we think about AI for advancing peace? @howtobuildup.bsky.social will be at #FriEntPBF2026 this week debating #digitalpeacebuilding 🤖😱💻⚠️🕊️ @berghoffnd.bsky.social @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social lnkd.in/p/dDPW9B4K
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#digitalpeacebuilding | Lena Slachmuijlder
Do the pros outweigh the cons when we think about AI for advancing peace? I’m looking forward to exploring that question with Mahmoud Bastati of the digital peacebuilding organization @Build Up ^ an...
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Berghof Foundation @berghoffnd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How can peace be built within armed groups? Our Senior Research Advisor Veronique Dudouet co-organised a workshop with @fbafolke.bsky.social and Politics After War at #CRS2026 in #Glasglow, exploring how insider mediators can transform armed groups and what this means for peace #mediation.
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Berghof Foundation @berghoffnd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Peace is not the result of a single agreement. It is a long-term process, shaped by often-unseen, incremental efforts. This #PeaceDay2026, join our online event to explore what it takes to build peace before, during and after agreements. 📅21 September, 15:00 CEST 👉Register now: brnw.ch/21x5Ccd
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Geneva Call - Appel de Genève @genevacall.org · 08/09/2026
The session was followed by a Q&A during which MEPs who attended showed interest and constructive engagement. Here, MEP Sven Misker poses a question about new technologies, such as #AI and remotely controlled systems deployed in #warfare.
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Berghof Foundation @berghoffnd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How do you negotiate peace when the odds are stacked against you? Our Senior Mediation Advisor Luxshi Vimalarajah speaks with @woz.ch about peace #mediation in a world facing record levels of armed conflict & shrinking investment in conflict prevention. 👉: berghof-foundation.org/news/negotia...
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
If you are interested in #PeaceMediation 👉this workshop will centre on an immersive ceasefire negotiation simulation based on a case study giving participants the opportunity to test how to shape outcomes 📅 21 September 🕒 09h-17h 📍Geneva Centre for Security Policy docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Peace Mediation: Inside High-Stakes Negotiations
Thank you for your interest in the Beyond Division 2026 Geneva Workshop. The workshop will take place in person on 21 September 2026, from 09:00 to 17:00, at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCS...
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
@reset.tech calling on the European Commission to investigate monetization as a systemic risk under Articles 34 and 35 of the Digital Services Act @riovictoire.bsky.social @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social @howtobuildup.bsky.social
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European Digital Media Observatory @edmo-eu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🗓️ One week to go until our next EDMO Training – register now to join us! ⤵️
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
"Democracy involves the dispersal of power, but dispersing the power of oligarchs, not towards them. For that to happen, we need to build for it." @howtobuildup.bsky.social we help peacebuilders build the tech solutions they need. Welcome ideas on how to ensure these are open and interoperable.
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
If you care about #peacebuiding you really should give @mysky.social a try! 👉https://techandsocialcohesion.substack.com/p/now-you-can-choose-a-constructive @howtobuildup.bsky.social @jonathanstray.com @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social @raviiyer.bsky.social @eplo-network.bsky.social
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Now You Can Choose a Constructive Feed
Thousands of people are curating their algorithmic feed with MySky
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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 17/08/2026
We built a new social media algorithm from the ground up that gives you full control. And we figured hey, while wer're doing that, let's design it to help people out with their conflicts. www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/the-first-...
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The First Social Media Algorithm You Control is Designed for Constructive Conversation
GreenEarth is an open, controllable feed algorithm that is scientifically tested to reduce polarization
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MySky Feed @mysky.social · 27/08/2026
Click SETTINGS to personalize your MySky feed. A feed you control, designed for constructive conversation.
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
@fotoole.bsky.social of @irishtimes.com on the button, as ever "social media platforms are not neutral channels through which images and messages happen to pass. They are the pushers of deliberatively addictive and toxic products from which they make vast profits" @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
A plea for prosocial design for all “Today the law treats vulnerability as a trait of certain groups: the young, the elderly, the unwell. But online everyone is vulnerable, because the design exploits a cognitive architecture we all share.” cfg.eu/safe-by-desi... @nicoletaprutean.bsky.social
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Safe by design, for every mind
Technology is becoming a defining public-policy concern. But tech policy is a young, under-resourced field, outspent many times over by industry.
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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 06/08/2026
We've said many times that the GreenEarth feeds are designed for "constructive" conversation. Here's what that means to us, how we implemented it, and what our fancy future plans are. www.greenearth.social/p/what-does-...
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What Does Constructive Mean?
How our “bridging” algorithms actually work, and our future plans.
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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 31/07/2026
Would you like to try the first ever algorithmic feed with CONTROLS? GreenEarth is built to serve you, not the platform or anybody else. Now in beta. www.greenearth.social/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to the GreenEarth Feeds
Social media algorithms built for people who hate social media algorithms
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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 23/07/2026
One of the goals of the GreenEarth project is to build models that let feed designers quickly estimate the effects of their algorithms on addiction, polarization, depression etc. With your permission, of course. www.greenearth.social/p/measuring-...
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Measuring the Effects of Social Media Without Expensive Surveys
GreenEarth is building models that turn survey experiments into cheap A/B tests
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Independent prosocial design research can shape what gets built, but researchers lack the pathways and incentives to produce it. Audrey Hingle and Julia Kamin on what needs to change.
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Making the Case for Actionable Prosocial Design Research
Regulating harmful design is only half the equation — attention must go toward how platforms can build prosocial design, write Audrey Hingle and Julia Kamin.
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
Great to see more uptake of the idea of platform harms as a negative externality - that could be taxed See more in @howtobuildup.bsky.social reports on the #polarizationfootprint
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 10/07/2026
Instagram, Facebook failing EU’s digital rules by hooking teens
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Instagram, Facebook failing EU’s digital rules by hooking teens
Commission's preliminary Digital Services Act finding on Meta calls out addictive design
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026
👏 amazing week in Mombasa with the incredible colleagues at @howtobuildup.bsky.social We operate as a collective, with shared organisational and financial ownership and risk across the core team without hierarchy of age, experience, or geography. Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 17/06/2026
Do you have OPINIONS about algorithmic feeds in BSky? We're building them, and we want them to be awesome. Who wants to talk to me about this? This is your chance to be heard by algorithm designers (me! and the rest of the GreenEarth.social team)
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Build Up ^ @howtobuildup.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Up for another party? 🎉 Build Peace 2026 registration will be open soon: howtobuildpeace.org #PublicSpaces #DigitalCommons #PeaceTech #DigitalAutonomy #OpenSocialWeb
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Build Peace
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Build Up ^ @howtobuildup.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Reflections from the PublicSpaces Conference 🌍 Last week, Build Up's Technology Lead @benjamincerigo.bsky.social joined the PublicSpaces conference, energizing! The community around PublicSpaces and Waag inspired attendees across tech, digital infrastructure, and community building. 🧵👇
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Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“Across the world, the desire for a world free of war and empire exists, waiting to be mobilized and given fresh political voice.“ From my essay published this week in @ForeignAffairs. Related podcast link below www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/how...
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How to Prevent the Next World War
A Conversation With Thant Myint-U
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
Build Up's June newsletter out💥 🇸🇩previewing new research on Sudan's information warfare 🤖joining a Design for Integrity conversation on polarization for profit 🔩a new tool for researchers 🕊️heading to Data for Peace conference mailchi.mp/howtobuildup... Subscribe here: mailchi.mp/howtobuildup...
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Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What if "structural violence" isn’t always as faceless as we assume? @juliehawke.bsky.social's concept of institutional violence challenges Galtung’s classic triad of direct, cultural and structural violence by asking us to look more closely at attribution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
On the left is the cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage, https://academic.oup.com/jogss, and Bluesky handle, @journalofgss.bsky.social, appear in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image depicts a stack of books, a world map, and a tea glass, and is overlaid with the article title and author’s name: “Institutional Violence: A Missing Link in Peace Studies,” by Julie A. Hawke.
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Julie Hawke @juliehawke.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New publication to share, open access in Peacebuilding! "Works (un)cited: investigating the persistence of global exclusion in peace studies through citation analysis." -- Written with Wesley Hedden, Debora Rogo, and Caroline Hughes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Works (un)cited: investigating the persistence of global exclusion in peace studies through citation analysis
Peace studies scholars have recently participated in decolonial challenges to global structures of power, including calls to re-centre non-Western knowledge(s) to expose the oppressive nature of te...
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026
Join me Thursday 21 May in Brussels! "tech and AI are changing conflict, geopolitics and mediation – can we fix it?" @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social @edri.bsky.social @cdteu.org @eplo-network.bsky.social
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CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
From digital warfare to digital peacemaking: tech and AI are changing conflict, geopolitics and mediation – can we fix it? Organised by Build Up with Alexander Ramsbotham, Guy Banim More information: cpdp.be/145526 #CPDP2026 #CompetingVisionsSharedFutures #CPDPWorkshops
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ready to join the fight against disinformation? Join us in Lisbon on 23 June for the #ChangingTIDE Media Literacy Incubator, an initiative designed to help young people spot disinformation, think critically, and connect with peers from across Europe 🤝 Apply May 31 👉 tepsa.eu/events/call-...
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Michiel van Hulten @michielvanhulten.eu · 08/05/2026
Following hot on the heels of three political parties announcing their departure from X in Germany, another very positive development. The fastest way to stop the monetisation of harmful and illegal online content by Big Tech oligarchs is to deprive their platforms of an audience.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In Silicon Valley, AI is a race—who wins, who captures value, who deploys fastest. In Brazil, the question isn't who wins but how the race itself is structured. With elections looming and institutions strained, AI safety starts with everyday harms, not existential ones, writes Adriana Abdenur.
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The Political Economy of AI Starts in Brazil, Not Silicon Valley
Brazil’s experience with PIX is an intriguing window into how public intervention can reshape AI-relevant markets, writes Adriana Abdenur.
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Agency for Peacebuilding (AP) @peaceagency.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
@guybanim.eurosky.social from BuildUP highlighted how most #AI tools are not designed specifically by peacebuilders, for peacebuilders. This makes their use in #peacebuilding complex, because their foundations are already hardwired in a different way than the peacebuilding mindset.
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Monnett @monnett.social · 05/05/2026
"We don't want AI-generated content, and we also don't want to feed people's content into AI for moderation." Read more and listen to @euronews.com Tech Talks: www.euronews.com/next/2026/04...
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Are there alternatives to mainstream social media? |Euronews Tech Talk
Privacy, political, and ethical concerns are pushing people to look for alternative social media platforms. What are the options? Are they the solution? Euronews Tech Talks tries to understand.
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Monnett @monnett.social · 30/04/2026
"Privacy, political, and ethical concerns are pushing people to look for alternative social media platforms. What are the options?" Read more and listen to @euronews.com Tech Talks: www.euronews.com/next/2026/04...
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Are there alternatives to mainstream social media? |Euronews Tech Talk
Privacy, political, and ethical concerns are pushing people to look for alternative social media platforms. What are the options? Are they the solution? Euronews Tech Talks tries to understand.
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Miguel Dobrich @migueldobrich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Sadly, in light of today's announcement that #RightsCon has been cancelled, I'm sharing here the investigation we did at @amenazaroboto.bsky.social, which I was planning to present there: amenazaroboto.com/the-heat-beh...
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Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social · 14/04/2026
Really encouraging to watch this youtu.be/sWubw1FM9gc?... #BuildingPeaceinEurope @icipeace.bsky.social @humefoundation.bsky.social
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Meeting the Quiet Peacebuilders
YouTube video by Hume Foundation
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Michael Meyer-Resende @meyer-resende.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
2/3 of seats for Tisza likely. Party will be able to change constitution and cardinal laws to dismantle the party state. Hopefully it will do so responsibly to build foundations for pluralistic democracy. #Hungary
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