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SOLUTIONS · WAR & ARMED CONFLICT
Diplomatic negotiation, multilateral working groups, humanitarian operations, peace processes. Situations where dozens of actors hold partial, contradictory, and evolving views of the same facts, and the cost of misreading is paid by the people least responsible for the confusion.
TACITUS does not take sides or promise peace. It provides legibility infrastructure: a grounded map of actors, claims, commitments, constraints, and evidence that humans can inspect before they decide.
The vocabulary changes with the stakes. The structure does not. PRAXIS is the experimental workbench; DIALECTICA is the graph engine underneath.
| Primitive | In this domain |
|---|---|
| Actor | State, faction, mediator, guarantor, civilian population |
| Claim | "The ceasefire was violated on 3 February." |
| Interest | Territorial integrity. Autonomy. Recognition. |
| Commitment | Signed ceasefire, withdrawal commitment, mandate text |
| Leverage | Territory, recognition, economic flows, alliance capacity |
Diplomatic
Three rounds of bilateral talks, six draft agreements, two contested annexes , structured per commitment, per actor, per session.
Multilateral
A working group across six member states, each with a different reading of the preceding resolution , aligned to one graph.
Humanitarian
Hundreds of field reports across three provinces, compressed into a queryable actor-event-commitment graph, with provenance to every report.
If you run or support complex multi-party processes, we want to know what the map is missing. Bring a real process, a hard corpus, or a failure case.
The capsules for armed-conflict analysis
The hardest material: contested claims, deliberate misinformation, actors whose statements are moves. This is the domain the capsule disciplines were forged in — receipts, two clocks, surfaced disputes.
User capsule
The desk’s mandate and reporting lines — which assessments it owns and which it must attribute.
Situation capsule
Ceasefire claims with trust tiers, episodes with causal links, the certification dispute kept as structure, not narrative.
Tool capsule
Ceasefire-verification heuristics, competing-hypotheses matrices, mirror-imaging traps with detection prompts.
Output capsule
SITREP house style: institutional citation, both clocks visible, disputed claims flagged in line.