Harvesting Social Signals to Inform Peace Processes Implementation and Monitoring

10/04/2017
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Expo Hall/Career Fair

Objective: Inspiration
Audience Level: All
Session Type: Poster

Peace processes are complex. In civil war terminations, it is pertinent to measure the pulse of the nation. Using Colombia's peace process, we present: a linguistic analysis to detect inter-group polarization and a predictive model to assess public sentiment. We show that had pro-accord stakeholders leveraged public opinion from social media the outcome of the referendum could have been different.

Speaker(s)

, Ph.D. Student, University of Notre Dame