Peace Engineering

Over the last decade, the technology that we’ve come to take for granted has become the greatest threat to peace and stability. From social media to AI, to data breaches and cyber warfare, we live in a world where technology has been weaponized.

Around 10 years ago, a small group of researchers at leading institutes around the world began experimenting with the different ways technology could be used to affect human behavior. Their research sparked a movement: Peace Engineering. 

Around the world, people are now reclaiming the power of technology and using it as a powerful force for good.   Peace Engineers have the same prestige, pay, and career opportunities as other engineers, but unlike their counterparts, their contributions have the potential to redefine our relationship with technology and repair the damage done to the world.  

In 2018, The World Engineering Education Forum and the Global Engineering Deans Council brought 41 nations, and dozens of universities and companies together for the world’s first Peace Engineering Conference.  As a result, Drexel University, the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University, the University of New Mexico (UNM) and SensorComm Technologies, Inc. convened to form the Peace Engineering Consortium. The consortium aims to draw from multi-disciplinary principles of science and technology to establish rigorous design principles and processes for safer, more ethical development and deployment of emerging technologies. The goal is to create technology that systematically augments our ability to engage positively with each other while tackling issues like cyber warfare, climate change, poverty, and other conditions that come in the way of long term stability and peace.