Felix Kufus.

Felix Kufus

AI tools for geopolitical analysis and negotiation support. Built inside mediation practice, and applied across conflict contexts.

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Fields of work.

Reading the environment

Information
Ecosystem Analysis

Semantic analysis of news and social media across platforms, to understand how narratives evolve in public discourse.

Listening to people

Stakeholder
Engagement

Consulting large and remote stakeholder groups through the messaging channels they already use: sharing information and hearing their views in their own words and language.

Supporting the process itself

Process Design
& Facilitation

Designing and facilitating dialogue processes in conflict contexts. Combining in-person facilitation with digital tools that enhance participation and collective sensemaking in real time.

Projecting forward

Foresight &
Scenario Building

Exploring plausible futures with the people involved, through horizon scanning, scenario development and stress testing, to look past the current deadlock.
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Stakeholder Engagement

Winner of the RTMKM Innovation Prize of the German Economy 2026.

AI WhatsApp Consultation Tool

A WhatsApp chatbot runs the consultation in the participant's own language, by voice or text. Hundreds of conversations, analysed for the topics that matter and areas of agreement and disagreement among participants.

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Information Ecosystem Analysis

Telegram Monitoring

Much of public discourse has moved into large messenger groups - hundreds of people in a single thread, hard to follow from outside. The agent sits inside the thread and reports how opinion blocs form, what gets argued, and by whom.

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Information Ecosystem Analysis

Media Monitoring

Monitoring agents read a country's press across its political spectrum - mapping narratives, naming the stakeholders behind them, and flagging what has shifted since yesterday. Every claim comes back traceable to its source. A day of reading, done in minutes.

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Tools & Methods

All seven tools across the four fields, including the four still in design.

Concepts

The six capabilities the tools are built from: semantic search, sensemaking, context engineering, stakeholder engagement, composition, and translation.
CMI - Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation Lead partner

I developed these tools and methods while working as an Advisor at CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and have applied them in various conflict contexts, including Yemen, Libya and the South Caucasus.

Also worked with

UN DPPA UN DPPA -
Political & Peacebuilding Affairs
UN DPO UN DPO -
Peace Operations
UNDP UNDP -
Development Programme
UN Women UN Women -
Gender Equality
European Union External Action - EEAS EEAS -
EU External Action
German Federal Foreign Office Federal Foreign Office -
Germany
Toda Peace Institute Toda Peace
Institute