The Genocide Intervention Network seeks to create a new website, modeled on our successful Darfur congressional scorecard, DarfurScores.org, tentatively named GenocideScores.org. This grows directly out of our mission, to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide.

Our current site tracks each legislator's record on bills relating to Darfur. Hillary Clinton's scorecard, for instance, tracks the senator's record of co-sponsoring and voting for most important bills on Darfur. Sam Brownback similarly scores high for his outspoken record on the issue.

The process of a bill moving through Congress, however, is somewhat obscure. Action alerts are posted when a bill is coming up for a vote, and e-mails are sent to members in important states and districts. Yet most visitors won't know at a glance where a particular bill is, or which states or districts are most important to passing the bill.

Moreover, two additional campaigns have achieved significant momentum: the Sudan Divestment Task Force and the Teach Against Genocide campaign. These measure success on the state level — "Which states have divested?" or "Which state legislatures have approved genocide education?" While visitors to these sites can view information for their particular state, the particular status and action needed in a given state is not always immediately apparent.

Don't other sites track legislation? Why create a new cause-specific site? It's true that other websites track bills as the move through Congress. The difference with GenocideScores.org would be two-fold: First, it would incorporate state-based campaigns as noted above. Second, and perhaps most importantly, it would be curated by our advocacy staff to ensure anti-genocide activists are provided with the most effective information and tools. General legislation-tracking sites will never — and are not designed to — support advocacy on a particular cause, but our staff will ensure that the alerts people get on a particular bill or campaign tell them exactly how they can have the most impact.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the culmination of a 50-year movement to create the first permanent court established to prosecute perpetrators (no matter how powerful) of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.  But in its first cases the ICC urgently needs cooperation from the international community to fulfill its justice mandate as it confronts an entrenched culture of impunity.  Currently 108 countries are members of this treaty-based court, but powerful nations China, Russia and the U.S. have not ratified the treaty, known as the Rome Statute.  Ultimately all of us are the international community, and our project’s goal is to greatly expand a global citizens constituency to demand that our leaders support an effective international justice system, spearheaded by the ICC, with actions to support the Court’s arrest warrants, and pursue universal ratification of the Rome Statute.  

IJCentral, in tandem with documentary film “The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court”, will be at the core of a social network for global justice constituents, implementing a multi-platform citizen engagement strategy using geolocated mobile phone SMS text messages to generate a worldwide conversation about the rule of law and visualize the social network on the IJC Map. A joint survey conducted in Uganda (one of the ICC situation countries) by the Human Rights Center, the Payson Center for International Development, and the International Center for Transitional Justice shows that when people know more about the ICC, support for the ICC increases.

IJCentral has launched in beta stage, with Twitter adapted to the IJC Map as an initial entry platform to the global justice conversation.  We plan to expand the conversation by adding low entry barrier access such as an SMS short code and in-country mobile numbers using FrontlineSMS software with our local NGO partners around the world.  For example: after a screening of “The Reckoning” a high school class in Boston, using FrontlineSMS, could have a real time SMS Q&A with Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp leader Dennis Lemoyi in northern Uganda, one of the characters who appears in the film.  At this stage the site also includes resources such as the IJC Blog, aggregated IJC News, and the IJC Video gallery with ICC footage updated weekly, and links to all of our NGO partners and their Action alerts.  

A 3-year citizen engagement campaign will drive new constituents to IJCentral through screenings conducted around the world with our NGO partners and national/international television broadcasts of “The Reckoning”, and online delivery of the film and related media modules for activists and educators.  Our measures of success will be the creation of a broad global database of international justice constituents that can be reached for calls to action in support of the ICC’s justice mandate, and a vibrant international justice social network with low entry barrier SMS text messaging at its core, allowing for a truly inclusive global community that supports the rule of law in conflict resolution, and strengthens the mandate of the ICC for a world with justice, peace and security.   

Truth and Reconciliation is an initiative of Social Tech which is aiming to form a national network of organizations and activists working towards integrating and strengthening social and human rights movement in Peru. We aim to do the following:

Mobile Advocacy:

- Promote and support efforts to achieve a more equitable national reconciliation based on access to mobile technology, peace culture and justice.

- Build awareness around human rights, peace and cultural diversity. Inspire young people to defend and support the Final Report published by The Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Mobile Technology:

- Minimizing the imbalance between the access to justice in urban and rural zones. Provide solutions based on mobile technology for interaction with government services and social organizations (Ombudsman's Office, Constitutional Court, Attorney General’s Office, Legal advice, Human Rights, NGOs).

- Provide a residential program on mobile technologies that enables local initiatives to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. Living and learning together, activists develop common conceptual skills and the sense of community that is essential for peer-to-peer collaboration.

Mobile Fundraising:

-Mobile fundraising is a new and effective way to raising funds for social initiatives. Being able to make donations conveniently and securely is essential for our donors and partners and cost can be reduced by using existing mobiles services. Donors will be able to make donations by sending a SMS message, mobile operator billing or mobile banking payment schemes to support our efforts and activities.

During the work on this project we would stay in close contact with the Ombudsman's Office, Human Rights National Coordinator and other local actors to ensure that requirements are met and adapting the design if necessary.

We propose to implement the project in the regions affected by human rights violations and violence. The target groups for the proposed project are school children, school teachers, university students, professionals, community leaders, local authorities and activists. Our initiative emphasizes participation of schools and universities. Integrating human rights and peace culture messages into the curriculum could be an effective approach to improving health of future generations.

The project will be conducted in three phases: (A) pilot phase in 3 regions (6 months) (B) scale-up phase in 8 regions (12 months) and (C) replication phase (12 months) in the rest of the country. Our group has developed strong links with grassroots organizations and communities leaders we worked together in previous projects and the feasibility study. To assure the commitment of the community, they are in charge of local implementation which allow us to systematize, evaluate and disseminate the experience gained. It would be essential to undertake the scale-up phase and integrate more beneficiaries

Technology alone will fail and our project provide support with a comprehensive approach and including: technical support, change management, training, coaching and cultural sensitivity.

We will implement scaling up strategies appropriate to the regional context, conduct a comparative analysis of the impact of such strategies and systematize the lessons learned in order to derive principles and methods applicable in other zones and wider groups.

Our studies showed that there is a potential to replicate our initiative it in other regions with a history of large scale conflicts: Central America, The Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.