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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Abstract
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, potentials and challenges of IT for peace and security.
Concluding remarks
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 sheds light on fundamentals (e.g. IT in peace, conflict and security, naturalscience/ technical peace research), cyber conflicts and war (e.g. information warfare, cyber espionage, cyber defence, Darknet), cyber peace (e.g. dual-use, technology assessment, confidence and security building measures), cyber arms control (e.g. arms control in the cyberspace, unmanned systems, verification), cyber attribution and infrastructures (e.g. attribution of cyber attacks, resilient infrastructures, secure critical information infrastructures), culture and interaction (e.g. safety and security, cultural violence, social media), before an outlook is given. This chapter provides an overview of all chapters in this book.
Reference details
DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-25652-4_1
Resource type
Miscellaneous
Year of Publication
2019
Publication Area
Dual-use cybersecurity
Date Published
2019
How to cite this reference:
Reuter, C. (2019). Information Technology for Peace and Security – Introduction and Overview. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25652-4_1 (Original work published 2019)