Christine Bell

PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars, second edition looks at how digital transformation is being used to support peace and transition processes, at a moment when war is on the rise. This Open Access book combines an overview of transformative technologies and their key PeaceTech applications, with an account of how practices of production shape what PeaceTech is and can do. This new edition is updated with the latest innovations in mobile phone and app technology, geographic information systems, satellite technology, peace analytics (data-analytics in the peacebuilding field), and Artificial Intelligence. It illustrates their key peacebuilding applications such as support to local peacebuilding projects, large-scale Conflict early warning systems , and peace mediation support, examining also the ethical and moral issues that arise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Springer International Publishing;
• 2. Aufl. 2026.
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032176455
• Artikelnr.: 76225116

Autorenporträt

Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law, Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Executive Director of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), based at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. A long-time expert and practitioner in the field of peace processes and constitution-making, she manages digital and PeaceTech innovation.

Inhaltsangabe

1 PeaceTech World.- Part I What Is PeaceTech?.- 2 PeaceTech: What Is It?.- 3 PeaceTech Technologies.- 4 PeaceTech Drivers.- 5 Double Disruption.- Part II Doing PeaceTech.- 6 PeaceTech Ecosystem.- 7 Doing One Thing.- 8 PeaceTech as Hack.- 9 Conflict Early Warning Systems.- 10 Peace and Space.- 11 Peace Analytics.- Part III PeaceTech Challenges.- 12 Doing PeaceTech.- 13 Ethics and Morals.- 14 PeaceTech Futures.

Rezensionen

There is a wealth of information about how technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are changing the conduct of contemporary warfare. Both books stress that ethics should never be an afterthought of digital peacebuilding practice, but that they should be integrated into PeaceTech developments from the start. anyone interested in the future developments that digitalization may bring to contemporary dynamics of conflict and peace will find these books to provide valuable and timely insights. (Fabian Hofmann, International Affairs, Vol. 101 (2), 2025)