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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CONFLICT PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).17      10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).17      Published : Mar 2025

Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security

Abstract

    Artificial intelligence(AI) is a well and indeed done deal, and now the AI economy is not only keeping itself alive but also being regarded as a force for transformation to transform fighting and its prediction and prevention into a global endeavor. Since it can use the power of massive data sources and machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms, AI systems can detect and warn of early signs of conflict so that decision-makers can get a head start. Much more specifically, an emphasis on data can amplify bias or produce incorrect predictions, undermining the trust in the results that AI promises to provide. There are significant ethical, political, and technical challenges to integrating AI into peacekeeping frameworks that need to be carefully walked along to use AI responsibly. It is this paper that studies those dimensions and looks to the future to analyze how AI might be distributed in conflict management.

    (1) Muhammad Usman Ullah
    Assistant Research Fellow, Global Policy & Research Institute (GLOPRI), Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Sahar Saleem
    MPhil Scholar , Department of International Relations , Wuhan University P.R China, School of Journalism and Communication.
    (3) Amina Munir
    MPhil Scholar, Centre for South Asian Studies Punjab University Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Cite this article

APA

    APA : Ullah, M. U., Saleem, S., & Munir, A. (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security. Global Social Sciences Review, X(I), 192-200. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).17

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Ullah, Muhammad Usman, Sahar Saleem, and Amina Munir. 2025. "Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security." Global Social Sciences Review, X (I): 192-200 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).17

HARVARD

    HARVARD : ULLAH, M. U., SALEEM, S. & MUNIR, A. 2025. Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security. Global Social Sciences Review, X, 192-200.

MHRA

    MHRA : Ullah, Muhammad Usman, Sahar Saleem, and Amina Munir. 2025. "Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security." Global Social Sciences Review, X: 192-200

MLA

    MLA : Ullah, Muhammad Usman, Sahar Saleem, and Amina Munir. "Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security." Global Social Sciences Review, X.I (2025): 192-200 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Ullah, Muhammad Usman, Saleem, Sahar, and Munir, Amina (2025), "Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security", Global Social Sciences Review, X (I), 192-200

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Ullah, Muhammad Usman, Sahar Saleem, and Amina Munir. "Artificial Intelligence in Conflict Prediction and Prevention: Opportunities and Risks for International Peace and Security." Global Social Sciences Review X, no. I (2025): 192-200. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).17