Policy Brief and Reports
October 30, 2025
Testing Deliberative Technologies to Identify Optimal Use
Deliberative technologies are software tools that help create large-scale dialogue among participants. This article outlines the experience of testing four of these tools—Crowdsmart, Pol.is, Talk to the City, and Deliberation.io—with a group of student volunteers…
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January 8, 2026
Reclaiming Attention: From Digital Conflict to Democratic Dialogue
This policy brief poses the question: which human capacities does digital polarisation erode, and why does their erosion matter for democratic life? It references a comprehensive governance architecture developed by Toda Peace Institute, Lisa Schirch’s…
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March 1, 2026
The First Amendment Promise of Deliberative Technology : Reviving Assembly and Petition to Modernize the US Congress
This report examines a deep institutional problem exposed by the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol: Congress lacks modern capacity to hear, process, and act on authentic civic voice. Drawing on more than…
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March 31, 2026
AI-Facilitated Youth Consultation in Yemen
This report examines an AI-facilitated youth consultation conducted in Yemen to address persistent challenges of inclusion, scale, and security in peace processes. In a context marked by protracted conflict, territorial fragmentation, and severe constraints on…
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April 10, 2026
Application of Deliberative Technology in ECOWARN: Challenges and Prospects
This paper examines institutional applications of deliberative technology within the ECOWAS Early Warning and Response Network (ECOWARN). ECOWARN has traditionally relied on incident reporting and expert analysis to monitor human security risks. In 2025, we…
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April 27, 2026
Empowering the Polity: Governance, Conflict and Deliberative Dialogue
This paper examines the relationship between conflict, governance, and deliberative dialogue, arguing that dialogical processes are central to societies’ ability to manage difference through political rather than coercive means. Conflict is an intrinsic feature of…
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June 17, 2026
Deliberative Technologies in Youth, Peace & Security: Promise, Practice, and the Uptake Gap
This report draws on experimentation to ask a grounded question: when peacebuilders and Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) coalition leaders put AI-enabled deliberative tools into practice, what do they enable, what obstacles do they face,…
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