peace talk

While machine-learning models have been used in hate speech research before, this is among the first studies using them to characterize peace talk.

To detect the prevalence of peace talk, Liebovitch and his team trained a machine-learning model on more than 700,000 English-language news articles from 18 different countries, which were categorized on a spectrum ranging from high- to low-peace.

Saudi Arabia, its local allies and the Houthis conducted a prisoner exchange in April as part of peace talk efforts.

Seething behind her slammed bedroom door in the wake of the failed peace talk, Joyce ruminates, “I’m tired of trying to get her to see me. It’s like childhood all over again: Nothing I want or need matters.”

Moderates initially despaired, but Trimble confounded his critics, dragging his unwilling party into the peace talk which led to the signing of the Good Friday agreement in April 1998.