Peace by Prompt, by Lena Slachmuijlder, and published in the Tech and Social Cohesion substack, provides a fascinating description of two efforts to build AI tools to facilitate mediation and encourage peacebuilding.
Slachmuijlder focuses on two initiatives:
Akord AI and the peace accord library
“Developed by Conflict Dynamics International, Akord AI is a chatbot designed to support Sudanese peacebuilders, civil society actors, diplomats, and policy influencers. Instead of scraping the internet, it draws exclusively from a curated library of more than 3,000 resources—peace agreements, constitutional texts, case studies on women’s inclusion, and strategies from both global and local sources, in English and Modern Standard Arabic. Because Akord only draws on its curated library, it has so far avoided the hallucinations common in mainstream chatbots.”
Kinshasa’s AI Analyst
“In Kinshasa, a different experiment is unfolding. “Cocorico,” an AI chatbot developed by Kinshasa Television, isn’t just helping in the newsroom—it’s become an on-air analyst. It has weighed in on issues from the DRC–Rwanda peace talks to UN expert reports, government reshuffles, and legal cases.”
Center for Intercultural Dialogue 