This book challenges the current thinking and strategies in the field of global peace and security. It is clear that current global public and private institutions are inadequate for the challenges we face today. These challenges cut across borders and require a more coordinated and concerted effort to find workable solutions. This book therefore begins with the question of global leadership and works its way back to the interconnected dynamics of global modernity and conflict. It is divided into four parts, each addressing a fundamental challenge to global peace and security. By exploring how we break out of the current framework, in which we understand global activities and the distribution of resources, and this book provides new ways of understanding the material, cultural, political, and spiritual relations that form the basis of international society.
Chapter One Introduction: Securing the Future of Humanity in Challenging
Times.- Section One - Leadership, Global Governance, and Peace.- Chapter Two:
Section Introduction: Why we need more effective leadership at the global
level.- Chapter Three: Where Democratization and Globalization Meet.- Chapter
Four: New Thinking about Global Governance in an Intermestic World.- Chapter
Five: Fragmented Responsibility in a Global World.- Section Two - Technology
and Peace.- Chapter Six - Section Introduction: Why Technology is not the
solution for everything.- Chapter Seven: Peace Data, Peace Finance, and Peace
Engineering: Advancing the design of respectful spaces and Sustainable
Development Goals.- Chapter Eight: Decentralized Networks vs. The
Trolls.- Chapter Nine: Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers.- Section Three
- Structural Inequalities.- Chapter Ten: Section Introduction: Why we need
to acknowledge the inequalities inthe international system.- Chapter Eleven:
Women, Peace, and Security: What are the Connections? What are the
Limitations?.- Chapter Twelve: Environmental Reproductive Justice:
Intersections in an American Indian Community Impacted by Environmental
Contamination.- Chapter Thirteen: Peace, Violence, and Inequality in a
Climate Disrupted world.- Section Four: Coda.- Chapter Fourteen: Coda
Introduction: Pushing towards the future.- Chapter Fifteen: Peace in Pieces:
Limits to Progress in Economy, Ethics, and World Order.
Hoda Mahmoudi is Research Professor and Chair, The Bahįķ Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.
Michael Allen is Professor and Chair of Political Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science, and Co-Director of International Studies, Bryn Mawr College, USA.
Kate Seaman is Assistant Director, The Bahįķ Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.
