MIL Global Policy Forum
AI for Peace and Global Understanding18 October 2026 · Cairo, Egypt Arab States
Regional Event of UNESCO Global MIL Week 2026
Why this Forum comes first
Every conference has to decide what goes first. This one opens with the Forum, not the Congress, for a reason: before the evidence is presented, the people who actually hold power over how artificial intelligence reshapes our societies need to argue it out in the open. On 18 October, the day the conference begins, policymakers, media professionals, educators, civil society, and youth representatives sit at the same table to face a question that no single institution can answer alone: as AI rewrites communication, intercultural relations, democratic life, and human security, what can — and must — media and information literacy do about it?
This is not a warm-up act for the academic sessions that follow. It is where the political stakes of the whole conference get named out loud, in front of the people who can actually act on them.
Four thematic areas
MIL and Peace Education in AI-Mediated Societies
What does peace education look like when the classroom, the newsfeed, and the chatbot have all become the same space?
AI, Disinformation, Hate Speech, Polarization and Democratic Resilience
The oldest threats to democratic life, now moving at algorithmic speed — and what it takes to slow them down.
Algorithmic Governance, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
Who governs the systems that govern attention — and what accountability actually looks like in practice, not just in principle.
Technological Innovation and Global Citizenship in the Digital Era
Innovation is not neutral. This track asks what kind of global citizen it is building, and who gets left out.
Three ways to argue it out
- High-level panels — where the people with institutional power set out where they actually stand, in public.
- Policy dialogues — smaller, sharper exchanges aimed at turning positions into proposals.
- Multistakeholder roundtables — the format where governments, platforms, educators, and civil society, who rarely share a table, are made to share one.