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arXiv cs.AIAugust 18, 2026

Argumentation for Common Ground: Finding Zones of Possible Agreement between Individuals in Conflict

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arXiv:2608.15634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can common ground between societies in conflict be identified when citizens' acceptability of peace agreements is shaped by contested narratives? Such acceptability is mediated not only by the clauses that agreements include or exclude, but crucially by citizens' subjective reasoning concerning agreements' clauses. In this paper, we leverage computational argumentation to introduce a novel approach to identifying mutually acceptable agreements