| Description |
1 online resource |
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Rethinking peace and conflict studies, 2752-857X |
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Rethinking peace and conflict studies. 2752-857X
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Foundations -- Peace and Conflict Studies -- Ancient Concerns, Modern Discipline -- Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, and Conflict Transformation -- Defining Peace and Conflict Studies -- State of the Art -- Existential Risk Studies -- Humanity's Destruction-Thinking About the End -- The Emergence of Existential Risk Studies -- Classifying Risks to Existence -- Challenges of Working on Existential Risks -- References -- Chapter 3: At the Intersection of PCS and ERS -- Prioritization |
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Measurement and Time -- Questions for the Future -- Why Is Human Extinction Negative? -- Can There Be Peace Without Us? -- What Is the Purpose of Peace? -- References -- Chapter 4: Great Powers Conflict -- What Is a "Great Power"? -- What Is a Great Power Conflict? -- Why Is It a Problem? -- Great Power Conflict in Existential Risk Studies -- Likelihood and Type of Risk -- How Bad Could It Be? -- Great Powers Conflict in Peace and Conflict Studies -- Conflict Escalation and De-escalation -- Approaches to Prevention and Mitigation of Great Power Conflicts -- Questions for the Future -- References |
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Chapter 5: Peace, Pandemics, and Conflict -- Risk Potentials of Pandemics -- Peace, Pandemics, and Conflict -- Peacebuilding in Pandemics -- Questions for the Future -- References -- Chapter 6: Climate Change Peace and Conflict -- Risk Potentials of Climate Change -- Climate Change, Peace, and Conflict -- Climate Change as a Risk Multiplier -- Compounding Effects of Climate Change -- Peacebuilding and Climate Change -- Methods of Mitigating the Risks of Climate Change -- Emissions Reduction -- Geoengineering -- Questions for the Future -- References |
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Chapter 7: Emerging Technologies, Risk, Peace, and Conflict -- Defining Emerging Technologies -- Risks from Emerging Technologies -- Peace, Conflict, and Emerging Technologies -- Weaponization of Technology -- Emerging Technologies as a Driver of Conflict -- Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Through Technology -- Dilemmas Posed by the Intersection of Emerging Technology and Peace and Conflict Studies -- The Need for Governance and Regulation -- Questions for the Future -- Emerging Technologies: Artificial Intelligence -- Existential Risks and Artificial Intelligence |
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Governance and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence -- Peace, Conflict, and Artificial Intelligence -- Weaponization of AI -- Influences on Other Driving Factors of Conflicts -- Peacebuilding/Conflict Transformation and AI -- Questions for the Future -- Emerging Technologies: Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology -- Governance and Regulations -- Existential Risks and Synthetic Biology -- Peace, Conflict, and Synthetic Biology -- Questions for the Future -- Emerging Technologies: Nanotechnology -- Existential Risks and Nanotechnology -- Peace, Conflict, and Nanotechnology |
| Summary |
This book explores the topic of peace and the long-term survival of the human species. Drawing on Existential Risk Studies (ERS), the book lays out a theoretical framework for drawing new perspectives and approaches for looking toward the future and addressing existential risks related to the complexity and dynamics of conflict. Looking at five research lines in Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS); (1) Great Powers Conflict, (2) Peace, Pandemic, and Conflict, (3) Climate, Peace, and Conflict, (4) Emerging Technologies, Peace, and Conflict and (5) Totalitarianism, the chapters discuss how these lines are defined and discussed, how they are understood in ERS, and what approaches would be beneficial to adapt and integrate into PCS. By drawing on ERS and grounding the discussion in lines of research that will be important to the field of PCS, this book suggests that long-term perspectives are needed in the field, especially in regard to existential risk and their implications of conflict. Noah B. Taylor is a Guest Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is a practitioner, researcher, and teacher of Peace and Conflict Studies, focusing on a wide range of research areas including Elicitive Conflict Transformation, Transrational Peace Philosophy, Emerging Technologies, and Existential Risk |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Peace -- Research -- Methodology
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War -- Research -- Methodology
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Security, International.
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Risk.
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Peace -- Research -- Methodology
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Risk
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Security, International
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031243158 |
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3031243153 |
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