The SecDev Foundation’s Former SalamaTech Field Member Receives Prestigious Peace Award
The SecDev Foundation is proud to announce that one of its former field team members, Mayson Almisri, has won the 2020 Gandhi...Read More
Saving Syrian Lives: A Woman’s Work is Never Done Even Online
Sarah al-Hourani’s life changed dramatically with the Syrian uprising in 2011. Until the protests that rocked her hometown of Daraa over the...Read More
Internet in Syria Remains Critical – and Challenged
By Abdulrahman al-Masri Internet in Syria remains critical – and challenged. Footage from Vice on HBO’s latest documentary, Assad’s Syria, shows a large web of exposed and intertwined...Read More
Getting Girls into Tech: 5 Ways to do Better
A special look at what helps encourage girls to get into the tech field – from the vantage point of high school...Read More
SalamaTech: Harnessing Technology to Advance Peacebuilding
Our own Anwar Abas participated in a debate on PeaceTech earlier today. The panel session, hosted by the Centre for Security and...Read More
PeaceTech and the Syrian Conflict: What Canadians Are Doing
Join us on 30 September 2016 at Ottawa’s Peace Festival as we share our experience with PeaceTech and the Syrian conflict. Peacetech...Read More
Look Beyond the CVE Buzzwords; See the People
With all the talk of countering violent extremism (CVE), it can be easy to lose sight of the most important aspect of...Read More
Why Helping Syrians is Harder than it Should Be
While the Syrian civil war continues to rage more than five years on, the challenges in helping Syrians caught in conflict grow. The...Read More
The Unsung Heroes of Syria: Voices of Resilience
There are many unsung heroes in Syria. We are lucky enough to work with some of these Voices of Resilience. Earlier this...Read More
High School Students Wanted To Help Syrians Be Heard
Are you a high school student in Ottawa seeking to complete volunteer hours in a meaningful way this summer? Join us in...Read More