From digital warfare to digital peacemaking: tech and AI are changing conflict, geopolitics and mediation – can we fix it?
Workshop
Arts & Craft
Thursday 21.05 — 10:30 - 11:45
Organising Institution
Build Up
Spain
Focus and rationale – Tech and AI are changing how war is fought and peace is made: AI-driven narrative threats shape armed conflict; the race for AI dominance is redrawing the geopolitical order; conventional ways peacemaking are being disrupted. Can tech help?
Strategies for interactive collaboration – Expert insights from contributors to a major project on Digital Peacemaking will stimulate interdisciplinary exchange among workshop participants, in order to better understand: how tech and AI are affecting conflict; and how they can help peacemaking to adapt. Discussion will explore real-world case studies on tech in conflict, implications for peacemaking and priority areas to adapt and innovate.
Workshop objectives
Expand understanding of how technology is changing conflict and geopolitics
Explore implications for peacemaking
Stimulate interdisciplinary exchange among diverse tech experiences and perspectives
Inform development of a major research project on Digital Peacemaking by the workshop organisers, to be published in January 2027.