FAQ

We define PeaceTech as the intentional use of technologies and data to save lives, safeguard human dignity, prevent, mitigate, or recover from conflict, enable accountability, and help people live with dignity, agency, and security. For instance:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to predict conflicts, enhance decision-making, facilitate mediation, and assess responses to societal issues like infrastructure damage or poverty.
• Predictive modeling, spotting early conflict indicators for timely interventions.
• Satellite and drone imaging, serving roles from conflict prevention to post-war reconstruction, social media monitoring, and vital communication in conflict zones.
• Digital communication platforms, fostering dialogue, promoting understanding, and mediating conflicts.
• Digital educational tools, spreading knowledge on peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
• Crowdsourcing and citizen reporting, tapping collective intelligence for conflict mapping and peace initiatives.
• 3D printing, meeting essential supply demands swiftly in conflict-stricken regions.
• Biometrics, enabling fair democratic processes and facilitating targeted aid distribution.
• Robotics, offering surveillance capabilities and aid delivery to displaced populations.

These are just a few examples of PeaceTech. Learn more in "PeaceTech Topic Map: A Research Base for an Emerging Field".

The award grants the selected winner $20,000 for their accomplishments in the field and to support the further advancement of their project in the emerging field of technologies for peace.

The Selection Committee will use the following criteria for selection:

• Relevance: The project or initiative is aligned with our definition of PeaceTech — the intentional use of technologies and data to save lives, safeguard human dignity, prevent, mitigate, or recover from conflict, enable accountability, and help people live with dignity, agency, and security.
• Innovation: The project or initiative includes a new or unique approach that fills an identifiable gap in the broader PeaceTech ecosystem (for instance, communities served, methods, partners, or technologies).
• Technology: The application clearly explains how the technology works, demonstrates that its level of maturity is appropriate, and shows that there are concrete measures in place to ensure safety, reliability, privacy, security, and responsible use.
• Impact: The project or initiative has strong potential for meaningful impact, including clear articulation of its intended impact and a plan for measuring results.
• Needs Assessment: The project or initiative articulates what resources, partnerships, and infrastructure they currently have in place and has a realistic understanding of what additional support is needed to reach its goals.
• Scalability: The project or initiative presents a feasible and thoughtful plan for using award funds to expand its scope or operations beyond its initial pilot (for instance, new contexts, users, or partners).
• Peacewashing: Whether the project or initiative could be part of peacewashing activity.

The Selection Committee consists of the founding donor and a group of distinguished international experts and recognized leaders in the fields of peace, technology, investments, and international affairs. The 2026 Selection Committee will be announced shortly.

• Application deadline: 31 July 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT
• Deliberation: August
• Decision: Early September
• Award Ceremony: 23 September 2026

The Kluz Prize for PeaceTech welcomes individuals and organizations worldwide who have distinguished themselves through proven achievements or innovative projects applying transformative technologies to building, supporting, keeping, and promoting peace — particularly those initiated by the younger generation and the tech community, including entrepreneurs, engineers, programmers, scientists, startups, accelerators, big-tech, and venture capitalists. Applications can be submitted individually or as a group, with the organization's name and legal representative indicated. Please note, we are not seeking applications proposing new projects; this grant will only be awarded to established projects which have had an impact in the field.

Kluz Ventures is a values-driven investment firm with a long-term vision of empowering human flourishing and technological development by investing in the exceptional entrepreneurs and technologies of tomorrow. Founded by Artur Kluz. Learn more at www.kluzventures.com.

The GovLab is an action research center that aims to improve people's lives by changing the way we govern, leveraging science and technology. Learn more at www.thegovlab.org.