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Voices from the Field: Exploring the PeaceTech in Practice DatasetVoices from the Field

What do peacebuilders and humanitarian practitioners really think about technology? This tool lets you explore findings from the first openly available dataset of its kind—capturing how 211 practitioners, the majority of whom work across the Global South, use technology in conflict settings. Discover the tools they rely on, the risks that worry them, what they wish tech developers understood, and what they need to do their work more effectively.

Powered by AI, the chatbot draws exclusively on this peer-reviewed dataset, hosted on Harvard Dataverse and collected by the PeaceTech Alliance, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, and the Austrian Centre for Peace through an extensive network of alumni working directly in fragile settings and across the conflict cycle.

The AI has been trained solely on this dataset and can only answer questions related to its findings. For best results, ask specific questions about the data — for example, "What are practitioners most worried about?" or "What do respondents say about AI in peacebuilding?" Broader or unrelated questions may not return a useful response.

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Explore the PeaceTech in Practice Dataset

Ask questions grounded in responses from 211 peacebuilding and humanitarian practitioners. All answers are drawn exclusively from their survey responses.

🤖 AI Disclosure: This is an AI-powered tool, not a human. Responses are generated by a large language model, grounded exclusively in the PeaceTech in Practice dataset. In accordance with the EU AI Act (Article 50), you are interacting with an artificial intelligence system.

Hello! I can answer questions based on what 211 peacebuilding and humanitarian practitioners said in the PeaceTech in Practice survey (published 2026). All responses come directly from their experiences working in conflict-affected settings.

Try asking about their worries, what tools they use, what they think tech developers should know, or what their ideal tech tool would look like.

All answers are grounded in survey data from 211 practitioners. Responses have been anonymised. Dataset: Holzinger & Coyle (2026), Harvard Dataverse, DOI: 10.7910/DVN/7VAN5E

⏱ Since this tool searches across a large dataset, please allow up to 10 seconds for your reply.

About the Dataset

The PeaceTech in Practice survey (2025) gathered responses from 211 peacebuilding and humanitarian practitioners, the majority working in the Global South.

  • 94 working in Africa
  • 54 in the Middle East
  • 48 in Asia
  • 119 from NGOs
  • 58 from International Organisations

How to Cite

Holzinger, Astrid; Coyle, Nathan, 2026, "PeaceTech in Practice: Survey of Peacebuilding Practitioners on Technology Use, Risks, and Design Needs in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings (2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7VAN5E, Harvard Dataverse, V2.

Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The PeaceTech Alliance encourages open use of this dataset.

Access the Dataset

Access the full dataset via Harvard Dataverse →

Authors

Nathan Coyle — Expert Advisor for PeaceTech, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). Founder and lead of the PeaceTech Alliance.

Astrid Holzinger — Senior Project Manager, Austrian Centre for Peace (ACP). Leads the PeaceTech portfolio.

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