Author: Chaimae Bouazzaoui
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), diplomacy, and peace marks a new frontier in international relations: an emerging field of algorithmic peacebuilding that the United Nations and the Negev Forum could jointly spearhead. Building peace on innovative, data-driven foundations could revolutionize the traditionalist UN-centered peace and security paradigm.
- A Vision for a PAX Enhanced by AI
Having served at the United Nations as Morocco’s first woman diplomat to Israel, I reimagine how AI, combined with peace (Peace through AI, or simply AI-PAX) could introduce a transformative framework for global cooperation. The Abraham Accords offer a leading case study of AI-PAX in action.
Launched by President Trump in 2020, the historic Abraham Accords feature, first and foremost, the leader of the free world and the champion of the Accords: the United States of America- alongside the Start-Up Nation, Israel, at their heart, and Morocco, a globally praised interfaith leader and Terra Pax (see: Le Juif, Le Musulman, ou des Think-Tanks sur notre Terra Pax, Chaimae Bouazzaoui, Le Crif, 2015). These three could advance a strategic resolution at the UN that combines AI and Peace through the Abraham Accords. Such a step would pave the way to fellow Abrahamic partners to launch interconnected peace-tech initiatives inspired by the Negev Forum’s complementary working groups.
In this regard, AI-PAX represents a strategic reimagining of diplomacy itself. By leveraging AI’s analytical and predictive capabilities, this new multilateral approach could enhance interfaith dialogue, anticipate global trends, and identify potential new Abrahamic partners, while detecting first signals of geopolitical tensions that merit preemptive attention. AI offers a game-changing opportunity to strengthen diplomatic foresight through insights drawn from data.
- Digital Peace needs AI
Such dynamics can support negotiation efforts with unprecedented precision, helping to envision a future where peace is not reactive but proactively cultivated through data-driven insight and collaborative intelligence.
At the same time, peace through AI would enhance interfaith dialogue into the digital sphere and establish a new model of preemptive diplomacy. Real-time sentiment analysis, linguistic support, and scenario modeling could all be integrated within innovative UN Resolutions inspired by the Abraham Accords.
The convergence of AI-PAX with the United States’ first-ever UN resolution based on artificial intelligence further underscores the importance of this approach in shaping global governance norms for AI and peace.
- Implications
- An Innovative Approach that Benefits All Communities:
AI-PAX is designed to serve a wide array of stakeholders, including diplomats, civil servants, think-tankers, and peace practitioners, by enabling them to navigate complex geopolitical landscapes with accuracy and foresight.
Civil servants and policy architects could access early-warning systems, policy modeling tools, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms, as well as AI-generated examples of UN resolutions reflecting historical precedents.
Peace practitioners would benefit from tools supporting peace agreement analysis, interfaith dialogue, and project monitoring, as well as counter terrorism and counter-extremism actor identification, all informed by predictive insights into conflict trajectories and resolution effectiveness.
Think-tank could harness accelerated research synthesis, forecasting capabilities, and stakeholder mapping.
More broadly, AI-PAX evolve into a hybrid model of diplomacy where human-centered policy and technological innovation converge. It would unite policy makers and IT professionals, state and non-state actors, to foster resilient and peaceful societies within a broader Abraham Accords-led coalition, where key-players such as MENA2050 combine traditional and innovative approaches to peace analysis and development.
One significant implication would be the creation of a monitoring system for the Abraham Accords using open-source intelligence. Dedicated software, such as the one proposed in 2024 by the newly launched Data Diplomacy Academy at the United Nations, could support negotiations through real-time analytics and scenario modeling. Diplomats could detect early signs of divergence through AI-driven sentiment and trend analysis. AI-PAX would thus enhance trust calibration in multilateral settings and foster empathy and interfaith understanding, potentially embedding these values within UN Resolutions that promote a shared human consciousness.
- A New Dawn for the Abraham Accords within an “AI-ed” UN framework
AI-PAX can bring three transformative outcomes for both the Abraham Accords and the future of AI:
First, early detection of tensions through AI models trained on historical and real-time data would enable identification of emerging risks, such as hate speech, economic instability, or political polarization, before they escalate into violence. Following the tragic October 7th terror attacks, social media propaganda by terror groups spread sporadically. An AI-enabled collective Abraham Accords response through the Negev Forum or the UN could have countered it effectively. AI can anticipate social media trajectories through big-data sentiment analysis, and help design unified interfaith initiatives to counter propaganda.
Second, AI-based negotiation support can generate culturally sensitive proposals, model negotiation outcomes, and monitor public sentiment to help mediators adapt strategies in real time, particularly when engaging potential future Abraham Accords partners.
Third, post-adherence monitoring of the Abraham Accords can be enhanced through AI tools that track compliance with peace agreements by analyzing open-source date and public discourse.
- AI-Augmented Interfaith Diplomacy at the United Nations: A Game-Changer:
Despite the Abraham Accords’ historic importance, no UN resolution has yet formally addressed them, leaving their potential underutilized within global institutions. While UN officials have referenced the agreements, they have largely been absorbed into broader Middle East peace dialogues constrained by outdated narratives. The Abraham Accords’ genuine priorities, however, are oriented towards the future.
Imagine a scenario where a new General Assembly resolution titled “Promoting Interfaith Dialogue through the Abraham Accords” faces negotiation deadlock over language, AI could help overcome this impasse. AI systems could identify consensus-building phrases such as “shared humanity” or “mutual respect.” They could assess global sentiment to suggest inclusive language resonating across cultures, avoiding bias or top-down framing. AI-powered translation and tone analysis tools could help diplomats and faith leaders communicate respectfully across languages, while AI could synthesize insights from religious scholars, academics, and peace networks to identify shared ethical principles forming the resolution’s moral foundation.
Integrating AI into multilateral diplomacy redefines preventive diplomacy as preemptive and data-driven. It enables early action based on insight rather than reaction, strengthens transparency among Abrahamic partners, and builds resilience against misinformation and extremist propaganda aimed at undermining the Accords.
- Opportunities: Strategic Capabilities of AI-PAX
The strategic capabilities of AI-PAX are multifaceted. AI systems trained on diplomatic archives, religious texts, and cultural narratives can detect latent tensions and transform challenges into opportunities for consensus through contextual intelligence.
Such systems could simulate negotiation scenarios, providing diplomats with insights into likely outcomes and optimal language framing. Reinforcement learning algorithms could analyze past peace agreements and UN resolutions to suggest adaptive clauses suited to evolving geopolitical contexts.
AI-PAX does not replace the human genius – it augment it. It offers diplomats a cognitive scaffold to anticipate reactions, craft cohesive language, and build trust across ideological divides. Through this synergy, diplomacy gains not only efficiency but also depth, moving beyond surface-level negotiations into the structural dynamics of the a new world peace order.
Ultimately, AI-PAX is not a technological quick fix for diplomacy. It is a vision of augmented diplomacy. It invites diplomats and peacebuilders to reimagine their craft in partnership with intelligent systems. By enhancing the Abraham Accords geographies, AI-PAX cultivates a future where peace is proactively and intelligently nurtured, and where the Abraham Accords serve as a model for visionary, Abrahamic diplomacy within the global peace architecture.
