Use Facebook? Check out peace.facebook.com

 Posted by on 16 November 2009  Modern Life
Nov 162009
 

I was kind of touched when I found what was going on at peace.facebook.com. There, the social networking site is featuring a selection of graphs that highlights the connections they make between people. They’re showing how people who may fall on opposite sides of some geopolitical or cultural fence can still be friends.

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Because the graph shows how many connections are made per day, the India-Pakistan connections, above, are exploding. Even a flat line would actually mean steady growth (ie. 2,000 new connections, every day)

Facebook may be the biggest part of this so far, but it’s just the beginning of the so-called “Peace Dot” initiative.

A project out of the Stanford University “Persuasive Innovation Lab,” Peace Dot aims to showcase how companies are increasing the levels of peace in the world. Any company or organization that wants to is encouraged to add a page to their site: peace.yoursitename.com instead of boring old www.yoursitename.com.

I’m wondering what could go at peace.absurdintellectual.com.

This is the very early stages of Peace Dot, and I’m excited to have found it. There’s a list of participating sites at the Peace Dot website, where you can find out a little bit more.

Grant Hamilton

  • Matt Goerzen

    Interesting idea. Sure can’t hurt to try a bottom up approach. The top down idea doesn’t seem to work that well.

    • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

      So far none of the ideas seem super-radical, but you’re right, maybe a lot of little things will have more of a cumulative effect than any imposed Camp David solution.

  • http://enriqueallen.com Enrique Allen

    Thank you for your interest in Peace Dot. Yes, we hope to encourage lots of trials/experiments/failures + metrics that contribute to elements of peace.