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Efforts to end armed conflict through mediation are increasingly shaped by Digital Technologies. While peacemaking is traditionally understood as a human-centered activity, mediators need to grapple with the rising relevance of machines, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). Negotiations are increasingly supplemented with online activities, which produce large amounts of data that cannot be sufficiently analyzed using conventional means. Building on recent advances in the analysis of online participation processes, and specifically argument and opinion mining, this project aims to explore the opportunities and challenges of AI-applications in peacemaking. It asks how AI could be applied to better understand the dynamics between violent and non-violent forms of negotiation and under which conditions these can lead to a peaceful political settlement. The consortium will first analyze the practical needs and potential strategic purposes of AI in mediation support, as well as the organizational and technological ecosystems in which AI tools would be embedded. The project will then explore which methodological and data requirements AI have to fulfill, particularly in regards to the transparency of inference methods. Finally, the project will ask which data visualization techniques might be employed to integrate AI-outputs into the workflows and decision making processes of mediation teams.

• Prof. Dr. Gregor Betz

  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  (KIT)
  Arbeitsbereich Politische Philosophie und
  Argumentationstheorie
  Institut für Philosophie
  Karlsruhe
  

• Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter

  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  (KIT)
  KIT-Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
  Institut für Angewandte Informatik und
  Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB)
  Forschungsgruppe Web Science, KIT- Campus Süd
  Kollegiengebäude am Kronenplatz (Geb. 05.20)
  Karlsruhe
  

• Dr. Andreas Hirblinger, Ph.D.

  The Graduate Institute of International
  and Development Studies
  Centre on Conflict, Peacebuilding and Development
  Genf
  Schweiz
  

• Dr. Tamara Mchedlidze

  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  (KIT)
  Institute of Theoretical Informatics
  Karlsruhe
  

• Dr. David Lanius

  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  (KIT)
  Institut für Technikzukünfte (ITZ)
  Institut für Philosophie
  Karlsruhe
  

• Prof. Dr. Laurent Goetschel

  Swisspeace
  Swiss Peace Foundation
  Bern
  Schweiz
  

• Dr. Alexey Pak

  Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik
  Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (IOSB)
  Abteilung Mess-, Regelungs- und Diagnosesysteme
  Forschungsgruppe 3D Inspektion und Metrologie
  Karlsruhe
  

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Conrad

  Universität Düsseldorf
  Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
  Institut für Informatik
  Düsseldorf