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We’re excited to bring you our brand-new feature: AI for Peace Weekly Insights! Each week, we’ll share updates, trends, and key developments at the intersection of AI and peace, offering fresh perspectives on both risks and opportunities to inspire action and spark meaningful dialogue within our community of practice.
Have news to share or insights to add? Drop us a comment—we’d love to hear from you!
Harnessing AI for humanitarian action: Moving from response to prevention
The rise in global humanitarian needs, driven by escalating armed conflicts, climate-related disasters, and political instability, has placed immense pressure on the sector. Anticipatory action has emerged as a vital approach to addressing these challenges. This article explores how AI-based forecasting systems can enhance anticipatory action in humanitarian efforts, examines the barriers to unlocking their full potential, and highlights opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and humanitarian organizations to overcome these obstacles.
Early Warning Systems and the Recruitment and Use of Children in Armed Violence
The special issue of the journal Civil Wars explores early warning systems and their connection to the recruitment and use of children in armed violence. Featuring eight articles by 15 distinguished scholars, the issue examines a range of critical topics, including the effectiveness of early warning approaches, the relationship between early warning and early action, and the importance of incorporating gender and child-responsive strategies.
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War and Peace in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“From the recalibration of military strategy to the reconstitution of diplomacy, artificial intelligence will become a key determinant of order in the world. Immune to fear and favor, AI introduces a new possibility of objectivity in strategic decision-making. But that objectivity, harnessed by both the warfighter and the peacemaker, should preserve human subjectivity, which is essential for the responsible exercise of force. AI in war will illuminate the best and worst expressions of humanity. It will serve as the means both to wage war and to end it.”
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Exploring How AI Might Enhance Our Digital Public Squares
In April 2024, Jigsaw brought together experts from civil society, academia, and the public and private sectors to explore how emerging AI technologies can enhance online discourse. This position paper, coauthored with representatives from nearly 20 organizations, highlights innovative applications of large language models (LLMs) for digital public squares, examines critical risks, and outlines priorities for future research and investment.
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Paper: Addressing Critical Gaps in Data Collection and Analysis in Atrocities Prevention Early Warning Systems
This study examines third-generation conflict Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) systems for mass atrocity prevention through 26 interviews with practitioners across Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Key gaps include data quality, resource limitations, and challenges in turning data into action. While academics use advanced analytics, community-based EWEA organizations often rely on ad-hoc methods, highlighting a need for better collaboration to improve atrocity prevention.
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Paper: Preparing for Next-Generation Information Warfare with Generative AI
“Modern conflicts increasingly involve the weaponization of information and the manipulation of human behaviours and perceptions. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its integration into individuals’ daily lives and societies’ inner structures promises to not only augment and accelerate, but also complicate these trends.” In this paper, Eleonore Pauwels aims to “demonstrate two important shifts that will help us to recognize and understand this emerging warfare for what it truly is: an attack on humanity itself.”
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Paper: Bias in Military Artificial Intelligence, by SIPRI
This background paper explores the issue of bias in military artificial intelligence (AI) to aid states engaged in policy debates. It highlights three key insights: (1) Policymakers should define bias in military AI as systemically skewed performance leading to unjust outcomes tied to characteristics like race, gender, or class. (2) Bias arises from three main sources: societal bias, data processing and algorithm development, and misuse. (3) The humanitarian impacts of bias can include misidentification in targeting and flawed assessments of humanitarian needs, varying with context and application.
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Event: Webinar | ACLED Conflict Index & 2025 Watchlist
On?Friday, 10 January 2025 at 10 am EST/4 pm CET?ACLED will organize an?in-depth conversation?about our updated?ACLED Conflict Index?&?2025 Watchlist. Hear from ACLED experts, ACLED President & CEO Clionadh Raleigh, Head of Data Science Katayoun Kishi, and Head of Analysis Andrea Carboni as they?discuss the findings?and answer questions during a live?Q&A.?Register today?to secure your spot.
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Call for Abstracts: Annual Conference "Spatial Strategies for Peace", Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
The Atrocity Prevention Lab at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is pleased to announce a?Call for Abstracts?for their?Annual Conference, titled?"Spatial Strategies for Peace", which will take place virtually on?March 18 and 19, 2025.
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Job Opportunity at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue: Project Associate – AI and Emerging Technologies (Deadline January 12)
The Project Associate will support the operations and key activities of the AIET programme, which is housed within HD’s Digital Conflict Directorate. Alongside the AIET programme, the Digital Conflict Directorate includes programmes on cyber mediation and social media and disinformation. It serves as a specialised unit within HD working to reduce the conflict risks posed by new technologies through dialogue and mediation.
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