An Overview and Introduction to Information Technology for Peace and Security

Technological and scientific progress, especially the rapid development in information technology (IT), plays a crucial role regarding questions of peace and security. This textbook addresses the significance, potential, and challenges of IT for peace and security. For this purpose, the book offers an introduction to peace, conflict, and security research, thereby focusing on natural science, technical, and computer science perspectives. In the following, it first sheds light on fundamentals (e.g. peace informatics, natural science/technical peace research). Then, cyber conflicts and war (e.g. information warfare, cyber espionage, cyber defence, darknet), cyber peace (e.g. dual-use, confidence and security building measures) and cyber arms control (e.g. arms control in the cyberspace, verification, attribution) are covered. It then covers cyber infrastructures (e.g. secure critical infrastructures, resilient infrastructures, critical information infrastructures), artificial intelligence (cyber weapons, unmanned systems) as well ICT in peace and conflict (e.g. cultural violence, social media, digital peacebuilding), before concluding with an outlook. This chapter provides an overview of all the chapters in this book.