Publications

Reuter, Christian, Jürgen Altmann, Malte Göttsche und Mirko Himmel. 2020. Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Natural Science/Technical Peace Research, S+F Sicherheit und Frieden / Peace and Security, 1/2020. Link.

Summary

Scientific discoveries and technological innovations have always exerted a great influence on peace and security. New civil and military technologies are revolutionizing warfare. Particularly striking areas are cyber warfare and the rapid development of unmanned weapons systems. Issues of nuclear disarmament, missile defense or space armament as well as chemical and biological weapons are again becoming more urgent. Furthermore, frequent use of chemical weapons may lead to erosion of trust in arms control treaties.

The conference SCIENCE · PEACE · SECURITY ’19 aims for an accurate understanding and fruitful discussions of today’s and tomorrow’s peace and security challenges. This includes scientific-technical as well as interdisciplinary contributions, focusing on problems of international security and peacebuilding as well as contributions dedicated to transparency, trust-building, arms control, disarmament, and conflict management.

On the conference website (www.sps.peasec.de):

• Conference report: https://sps.peasec.de/news/
• Conference Proceedings: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/9164/ 
• A summarizing video of the conference: https://sps.peasec.de/video/
• Tweets distributed during the conference: https://sps.peasec.de/stream/