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 in the 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 Bahá’í 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 Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.
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.
Hoda Mahmoudi is Research Professor and Chair, The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.
Michael Allen is Chair and Professor 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 Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.