TACITUS ◳
Tacitus.me ◳ applies AI and graph-based modeling to conflict analysis, mapping polarization, narrative divergence, and power asymmetries to identify leverage points for early-stage resolution and mediation.
At Concordia Discors, we examine conflict as a failure of legibility before it becomes a failure of coexistence. Polarization is not yet conflict, but it is a precursor: a stage where shared frames erode, narratives harden, and institutions lose the capacity to mediate disagreement.
TACITUS ◳ extends this analytical mission into a tech domain.
Tacitus is our conflict-intelligence and resolution technologies hub, built to understand structured disagreement and early-stage resolution. It applies AI not to arbitrate truth or enforce consensus, but to restore visibility into how conflicts form—across politics, diplomacy, institutions, and digital publics.
How AI Advances the Concordia Discors Project
1. Making Disagreement Legible
Tacitus uses multimodal AI agents to extract claims, frames, and incentives from unstructured text—policy documents, media, internal communications—and translate them into structured representations. This reflects Concordia Discors’ core premise: pluralism survives only where disagreement remains intelligible.
2. Treating Polarization as a System, Not a Mood
Modules such as Prism Lab model polarization as a patterned phenomenon with a discernible grammar: moral framing, identity signaling, and strategic positioning. AI enables these elements to be decomposed, compared, and stress-tested—supporting reframing and de-escalation without erasing principled difference.
3. Mapping Conflict for Resolution
Through a growing conflict ontology and graph-based modeling, Tacitus represents disputes as relational systems of actors, interests, constraints, and asymmetries. This allows practitioners to identify leverage points, veto players, and bridge actors—where intervention can still shift trajectories toward resolution.
AI in the Service of Concordia
Tacitus embodies Concordia Discors’ conviction that harmony does not require agreement, but structure, a common space of understanding. AI, properly constrained, strengthens this project by making conflict analyzable rather than reactive, and by enabling earlier, more disciplined forms of mediation.
Tacitus is not an authority. It is an instrument—designed to help preserve the conditions under which disagreement can endure without becoming destructive.
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