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18 December 2025
IFIT in 2026 – What’s Next
As we look ahead to 2026, our focus more than ever will be on innovation. Among other things, we will be:
🔸 Working with Kenya to advance the first-ever global treaty on conflict mediation;
🔸 Building a global field of depolarisation;
🔸 Piloting our fast-track negotiation model and integrating AI tools in the process;
🔸 Partnering with the African Union and Court on a high-level continental event; and
🔸 Testing new dialogue models in countries where we have long operated local “brain trusts” – from Nigeria to Syria to Venezuela.
We invite you to watch our 90-second video on IFIT in 2026 to learn more.
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Members of the IFIT global community have demonstrated extraordinary leadership locally, regionally and/or globally.
- 100+ members have played central roles as negotiators, mediators or senior advisers in peace talks within their own countries or abroad;
- 80+ members have held executive roles in government, including as vice presidents, senior ministers, members of parliament, or career ambassadors; and
- 50+ members have received major international awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Légion d’honneur and similar recognitions.
