Digital Jus Pacis: International cooperation and legal foundations for Peace in the age of Artificial Intelligence

This paper aims to explore the transformative effect of artificial intelligence (AI) on global security and the existing gaps within legislative frameworks for managing the growing threats in this area, particularly the inability to manage "algorithmic warfare." Introducing the concept of a digital jus pacis, a new legal-ethical framework for preserving peace in the AI era. This proposed concept builds upon jus ad bellum and jus in bello, focusing on preventing digital escalation, ensuring accountability, and protecting human dignity in cyberspace. Whilst accounting for the geopolitical and strategic context within which this new technology is being developed, the article proposes three pillars for algorithmic peace, these include: 1) Lawful design (human oversight and proportionality); 2) Cooperative governance (regional and global alignment); 3) Moral restraint (digital humanitarian ethics). The goal is to develop and position the concept of digital jus pacis as a core principle of modern international law, which lays the foundation for a future AI Peace Compact or integration into the UN Global Digital Compact (GDC).