Our Story
Human ingenuity and resourcefulness have brought us technology to cure disease, travel the stars and split the atom. Yet, peace remains beyond our grasp. Why? At Didi, this is the question that drives us. Our mission is to breathe life back into the dream of peace, fueled by cutting-edge AI tools and human creativity.
Our vision is to make achieving global peace a pragmatic venture, the key to which is enhancing and accelerating the process of social change. This cyclical process of grassroots change shaping hearts and minds, leading to top-down structural change, which shapes hearts and minds, leading to more grassroots change needs the technological upgrade we provide. Our clients are domain experts who are trying to create social change and resolve conflicts and our job is to maximize their impact, helping them succeed faster and more efficiently.
Leadership
With a unique blend of experience in conflict resolution, academia, cutting-edge AI, and data analytics, our founding team is driven by a desire for global peace. Their dedication and expertise fuel our mission to create transformative solutions and make a lasting impact.
Shawn Guttman
Gabe Freund
Keren Dinur-Winter
Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Co-Founder & Head of R&D
Passionate about leveraging technology for peacebuilding, Shawn is the visionary and driving force behind Didi. With an MA in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies, Shawn merges idealism with pragmatism to create impactful, innovative solutions that will transform conflict resolution forever.
Gabe has honed his skills as a communications and social enterprise professional over 15 years working in NGOs, peacebuilding and community development. Gabe joined on day one, inspired by the vision of an ethical and thriving company making peace possible by harnessing AI and human ingenuity.
A political scientist who has studied peace processes for over a decade, Keren combines her research skills with experience facilitating Jewish-Palestinian dialogue groups to help create our classification models. She is a PhD candidate at Hebrew University, a researcher at the Truman Institute and recipient of the President's Outstanding Doctorate Grant.
Accolades
While our goals are set high, we are very proud of our successes and the recognition we have received along the way.
- Professor William Zartman, creator of Ripeness Theory