1. Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh Conflict, Rights and Security Research Cluster National University of Ireland Galway Topic: BES 12 – 2014: Enhancing the civilian conflict prevention and peace building capabilities of the EU Role: partner

2. Proposed contribution: Technologies of mediation and human rights 1.Assessing current use of new technologies to support mediation and human rights protection in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding missions 2.Assessing the need for additional innovative technologies 3.Setting out a medium–term agenda for research on new technologies for conflict prevention

3. Conflict Rights and Security Research Cluster Profile Nine academic staff from Political Science, Law, Human Rights, Sociology, Geography, Psychology, Anthropology A Cluster of the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change

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