Peace Engineering in the Arctic: Accommodating Diverse Interests in a Changing Environment
Publisher: Sandia National Laboratories
Author(s): Nancy K. Hayden, Jasper Hardesty, Bernard Amadei, Diana Bull, Hajo Eicken, Alec Bennett, Howard Passell, and George Backus
Date: 2020
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Extractive Resources, Governance
Peace Engineering is the application of science and engineering principles and technology to promote and support peace. This emerging discipline brings together the systems engineering community in academia, industry, and government with practitioners and researchers in the peacemaking, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, security and development communities to explore the role of technologies in removing conflict drivers and barriers to peace, and to support environments in which human potential and well-being can flourish. Practitioners of peace engineering must assess how technical solutions impact the peace and security values and trade-space relative to the systems of individuals, local communities, and societies within which the solutions are deployed.