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Mitigating Electoral Violence: Gender Analysis, Technology and Proactive Election Management

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As practitioners continue to improve on existing techniques to mitigate and manage the risk of electoral violence, more innovative approaches are also emerging. These approaches include looking at gender differences in electoral violence, leveraging social media and conflict-mapping techniques for early warning and response systems, and understanding how technologies that speed up results transmission and information-sharing can increase the credibility of election management bodies.

 

Featured speakers:

Almami Cyllah, IFES Regional Director for Africa
Sidi Diawara, IFES Country Director for Mali
Lisa Kammerud, IFES Research Officer and Project Manager for Election Violence Education and Resolution (EVER)
Mike Yard, IFES Country Director in Kenya

Moderated by Michael Svetlik, IFES Vice President of Programs