CONCORDIA by TACITUS

An AI mediator that transforms live conversations into structured conflict intelligence, helping parties uncover interests, identify common ground, and reach resolution faster.

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Inspiration

What it does

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for CONCORDIA by TACITUS# CONCORDIA — Real-Time AI Mediation

Inspiration

CONCORDIA was inspired by years working in conflict environments where the hardest problem is not lack of information — but lack of structure.

As a Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations, I worked on complex disputes where mediators and analysts spend enormous effort reconstructing who said what, what interests are driving positions, and where escalation begins.

Conflicts unfold through messy conversations. Claims, emotions, narratives, and incentives quickly become tangled.

This led to a simple question:

What if AI could make conflicts legible in real time?

CONCORDIA builds on the TACITUS Conflict Grammar, an ontology designed to represent disputes through eight primitives:

Actors, Claims, Interests, Constraints, Leverage, Commitments, Events, and Narratives.

Instead of treating conversations as unstructured text, the system transforms them into a live conflict map that both humans and AI can reason about.

The goal is not to replace mediators — but to augment their judgment with structured conflict intelligence.

What We Built

CONCORDIA is a real-time AI mediation platform.

Two participants can join a live session and speak naturally while an AI mediator:

  • listens and responds in real time
  • extracts conflict primitives from speech
  • maps the dispute into a live knowledge graph
  • detects escalation patterns
  • suggests resolution pathways

The system integrates multiple negotiation frameworks, including Principled Negotiation (Fisher & Ury), Glasl’s escalation model, Nonviolent Communication, and identity-based conflict theory.

It also includes practical resolution tools such as blind bidding, agreement generation, and structured case summaries.

How We Built It

CONCORDIA combines modern AI infrastructure with structured reasoning.

Frontend

  • Next.js 15
  • React 19
  • Tailwind CSS
  • D3.js conflict graph

Backend

  • Node.js WebSocket server for live sessions
  • REST APIs for analysis, summarization, and document ingestion

AI

  • Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Live for real-time audio mediation
  • structured extraction of conflict primitives
  • dynamic reasoning over negotiation frameworks

The result is a system that turns conversation into computable conflict intelligence.

Challenges

The biggest challenges were:

  • Real-time AI interaction with low latency audio streaming
  • translating messy human conversation into structured conflict primitives
  • designing escalation detection models grounded in mediation research
  • building a system that remains transparent and trustworthy in sensitive situations

Looking Forward

CONCORDIA is part of a broader effort through TACITUS to build infrastructure for conflict intelligence.

By combining AI, structured ontologies, and negotiation theory, we hope to make complex disputes more understandable — and ultimately easier to resolve.

Built With

  • an-ontology-that-converts-unstructured-conversation-into-structured-conflict-intelligence.-deployment-uses-docker-and-google-cloud-run
  • and-conflict-analysis.-visualization-and-analytics-are-powered-by-d3.js-and-recharts
  • and-react-19-for-the-frontend
  • d3.js
  • gemini
  • genai
  • next.js-15
  • node.js
  • speech-understanding
  • tacitus
  • tacitus.meontology
  • vitest
  • while-the-system-architecture-is-structured-around-the-tacitus-conflict-grammar
  • with-a-node.js-websocket-server-enabling-real-time-audio-mediation-sessions.-the-platform-uses-the-google-gemini-2.0-flash-live-api-for-live-multimodal-ai-interaction
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