At the 2nd International Conference on Metaheuristics in Engineering and its Applications (METASOFT), held in Bhubaneswar, India, Professor Michael Hess, an expert in Peace and Conflict Studies at RIT Kosovo, played a pivotal role in guiding a groundbreaking research paper that was recognized as one of the best works at the conference. Titled "Towards an Autonomous Information: Network Algorithms & AI for Advocacy in the Sahel," the paper was published in the prestigious AIP Conference Proceedings, indexed by Scopus.