Peace Engineering: A Partnered Approach to Engineering Education and Research

Abstract

The increasing impacts of climate change, urbanization, population growth and migration, along with the rapid adoption of technology in our day-to-day lives will continue to create conflict within and among communities; when systems lack the resiliency necessary to dampen this conflict, the outcome is often violence. Knowing that technological design has the ability to both contribute to or mitigate violence, future community leaders will be increasingly involved in all stages of conflict progression, and ultimately in the outcome of either peace or violence.