Critical AI, Peace, and Leadership research group (CAPL)

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The Critical AI, Peace, and Leadership (CAPL) research group seeks to critically reimagine AI as a tool for inclusive leadership and peacebuilding. It sets out to explore how AI can support the development of peace ontologies in underrepresented communities, bridging local knowledge systems with computational models. A planned central focus is identifying an Indigenous community in Nigeria exhibiting gender diglossolalia whose language has not yet been mapped or modelled for AI applications: working closely with local scholars, community leaders and the Ubang community, the group plans to generate semantic ontologies and knowledge representations that capture indigenous conceptualisations of peace, conflict resolution and social cohesion. By integrating interdisciplinary expertise from education, AI ethics and leadership studies, it advances a participatory and decolonial framework for engaging with AI.

Its three objectives are to advance decolonial critiques of AI by centring Indigenous pedagogies, linguistic systems and community-based epistemologies; to develop participatory methodologies for constructing peace and leadership ontologies that can interface with AI systems without reproducing extractive research practices; and to generate empirically grounded insights into how Indigenous peace education practices shape inclusive leadership practices. Its research strands are Indigenous peace pedagogies and knowledge transmission; gender, language and educational authority; and AI and decolonial knowledge, which takes up debates on data sovereignty, algorithmic bias and community ownership.

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King's College London (KCL)
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African Leadership Centre (ALC)

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