Peace

Technological and scientific advances, especially the rapid evolution of information technology (IT), play a crucial role regarding questions of peace and security. This textbook addresses the significance and potential of IT, as well as the challenges it poses, with regard to peace and security. It begins with an introduction to peace, conflict, and security research, especially focusing on natural science, technical and computer science perspectives. In the following sections, it sheds light on cyber conflicts, war and peace, cyber arms control, cyber attribution and infrastructures, as well as culture and interaction, before offering an outlook on the future.

“This important new book explains variation in the effectiveness of the EU’s interregional partnership with Africa in the realm of peace and security. It is a brilliant piece of academic work, which masters a huge task and sets a new standard of excellence in this domain. Plank deserves to be seriously engaged by both practitioners and scholars in fields such as EU foreign policy, African studies, peace and conflict research, and comparative regionalism.”

This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed. The transformation of child terrorists into peace activists has received scant attention from academics and practitioners alike. Particular focus is placed on child jihadism, child terrorism in Africa and Latin America, child separatist terrorism, and White child supremacism. These five groups of child terrorists represent about 80% of the problem across the world.