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Click here to read the article. A new platform is empowering internet users to play a part in making Twitter a safer, less toxic place. Harnessing the power of a global network of digital activists, Troll Patrol is at the forefront of how Amnesty International is combining machine learning and crowdsourcing to tackle human rights abuses... Read more... [Quotation] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/05/how-you-can-help-amnesty-fight-twitter-trolls/

Click here to read the article. Online 'bots' are often seen as negative, and dangerous, but they can also be used for good, as one social enterprise group is proving... Read more... [Quotation] https://www.peacenews.com/single-post/2018/02/09/Can-Online-Bots-Build-Peace

Photo: An Airman completes a missile assembly on an F-16 Fighting Falcon during a load crew competition at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., June 30, 2017. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Andrew D. Sarver See the Doomsday_Clock_SQD (PDF)

See the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock reassessment for 2018 here: Because of the "extraordinary danger of the current moment," the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists today moved the hand of the iconic Doomsday Clock to 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT. The last time the Clock was this close to midnight was in 1953. ... Read more... [Quotation] http://www.icontact-archive.com/xNL0qQCSSQU61TQn1ZB3dPqLvpegIdUw?w=4

Toda Institute is proud to announce the publication of our journal Peace & Policy vol. 15, entitled Music and Solidarity: Questions of Universality, Consciousness and Connection, co-edited by Dr. Felicity Laurence and Dr. Olivier Urbain.  In addition we anticipate the publication of a book by Transaction Publishers with the same title later this year.  Please review our publications page for more information about other Toda Institute Publications.