WHAT HAPPENED
On 19 October 2026, the PeaceTech Alliance and the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted The PeaceTech We Want, a four-hour online summit that brought the open movement closer to the people working on peace tech. The aim was a grounded conversation led by practice, built around the peacebuilder-first, Do No Harm approach.
Twelve speakers from peacebuilding, technology and research organisations took part across five sessions. The summit opened with a keynote on whether AI is for or against peace, followed by a panel on who decides what technology peace needs. Five projects were demoed in the PeaceTech in Practice session, a roundtable asked what a peace negotiator needs to know about AI, and a closing keynote looked at what it would take to build digital peace.
The summit did what it set out to do: it put peacebuilders and technologists in the same conversation, with Do No Harm at the centre.
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Roundtable
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