Qualified replacement
Fictional A’s example designation interval ended on 1 September 2027. Q Front identity remains unresolved; Fictional B was not checked.
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SOLUTIONS · WAR & ARMED CONFLICT
Understand the situation. Preserve the uncertainty.
Connect actors, reported events and commitments while keeping competing accounts separate. Our proposed PRAXIS workflow preserves source references, time and uncertainty as a situation changes. Professional judgment remains central.
These are proposed analytical workflows under development. Source access, sensitive information, and attribution need explicit review before any operational use.
Explore a worked example
See what changes when evidence stays connected.
Follow a source into an assessment. Add a later record and see what needs to change. These fictional cases show the reasoning a team needs to preserve.
Mediation · humanitarian policy · diplomatic teams
What was promised—and under which conditions?
Handover between desks loses the conditions attached to an offer. A durable record keeps proposals, accepted commitments, and observed implementation distinct.
Recurring task: update a commitment ledger as sources change. The analyst checks passages; the reviewer challenges claims; a team lead agrees the evaluation before relying on the workflow.
A humanitarian or diplomatic analyst prepares a dated situation brief; the responsible reviewer checks disputed accounts and operational sensitivity before sharing.
Move the evidence forward
The assessment only uses records available in the selected view.
2 source records
Selected source · S1
“Party A offers a two-day access window if the monitoring team is present.”
An offer conditional on monitoring; acceptance is not recorded.
An announced arrangement does not establish safe access or implementation on the ground.
Initial · Commitment ledger
What can we say?
A conditional offer and support in principle are documented. The record does not establish an agreed access window.
Human review
Check proposed terms against authorized readouts and operational updates. Preserve unresolved conditions for the next desk.
The pilot test
Scope this workflow Does every commitment retain its speaker, condition, time, and acceptance status?
Fictional A / Fictional B / Group Q
A name is not a global designation.
For a conflict researcher or humanitarian policy editor. This local exercise checks alias identity, jurisdiction and stale dates; it does not assess a real organization’s legal status.
Bounded terminology checks
- FAIL / Alias identity
Q Front → Group Q is unverified. Do not merge identities without supporting evidence.
- FAIL / Jurisdiction / scope
Fictional A’s regime cannot establish global status. Fictional B is not checked; this is not “not designated”.
- PASS / Workspace knowledge cutoff
The 22 August captured notice is available.
- FAIL / Designation interval
Fictional interval: 2027-03-01 ≤ date < 2027-09-01. At the exclusive endpoint, the old designation is stale.
Audience instruction / supporting record
Use neutral entity name “Group Q”; attribute designations to authority and regime. Preserve the original words inside quotations.
Authored fictional style instruction, not an invented policy of a real institution.
- Entity / alias
- Group Q / Q Front / unverified
- Authority / regime
- Fictional A designation office / A demonstration list
- Valid interval
- 2027-03-01 to 2027-09-01 exclusive
- Revocation publication / capture
- 2027-08-20 / 2027-08-22
- Source / jurisdiction B
- demo-notice-r2 / not checked
Keep actors, events, and evidence distinct.
A report, an attributed statement, and an analyst’s assessment carry different weight. Our research framework makes those distinctions explicit. PRAXIS is the experimental workspace; DIALECTICA is the knowledge layer in development.
| Analytical concept | 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 |
From diplomatic reporting to humanitarian review.
Diplomatic
Illustrative scenario · proposed applicationSuccessive negotiation drafts contain different commitments. Which wording changed, and which parties accepted it?
- Multi-party negotiation reconstruction
- Commitment tracking across session transcripts
- Review of changes in stated positions
- Situation-report drafting for human review
Multilateral
Illustrative scenario · proposed applicationMembers of a working group read a resolution differently. Where do their interpretations diverge, and which passages do they cite?
- Cross-institution stance mapping
- Resolution-to-resolution continuity
- Working-group commitment reconciliation
Humanitarian
Illustrative scenario · proposed applicationField reports describe a changing access situation. Which observations are independent, current, and relevant to the next briefing?
- Field-report to case-file synthesis
- Protection-space commitment tracking
- Donor briefing preparation
Peace process
Illustrative scenario · proposed applicationParticipants describe the same dialogue differently. Which commitments are documented, and which interpretations remain disputed?
- Commitment comparison across sessions
- Comparison of how parties describe events
- Guarantor reporting packages
Pilots welcome. Critique welcome.
If you support diplomacy, mediation, or humanitarian analysis, help us understand where a structured record would be useful. Start with a public or non-sensitive example and the questions your team struggles to resolve.
Capsule concepts for armed-conflict analysis · under development
Conflict analysis requires care with attribution, timing, and uncertainty. The capsule design aims to preserve those distinctions as evidence is reviewed and an assessment changes.
User capsule
The desk’s mandate and reporting lines — which assessments it owns and which it must attribute.
Situation capsule
Ceasefire reports, attributed statements, event dates, and disagreements about what the evidence establishes.
Tool capsule
Questions for comparing hypotheses, checking reporting gaps, and examining an analyst’s own assumptions.
Output capsule
A situation report that distinguishes event time from reporting time, cites sources, and marks disputed claims.