PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars

Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law. Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Executive Director of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), based at the School of Law, at the University of Edinburgh. A long-time expert and practitioner in the field of peace processes and constitution-making, she manages digital and PeaceTech innovation.

“There is a wealth of information about how technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are changing the conduct of contemporary warfare. …  Both books stress that ethics should never be an afterthought of digital peacebuilding practice, but that they should be integrated into PeaceTech developments from the start. … anyone interested in the future developments that digitalization may bring to contemporary dynamics of conflict and peace will find these books to provide valuable and timely insights.” (Fabian Hofmann, International Affairs, Vol. 101 (2), 2025)

• 1 PeaceTech World.- Part I What Is PeaceTech?.- 2 PeaceTech: What Is It?.- 3 PeaceTech Technologies.- 4 PeaceTech Drivers.- 5 Double Disruption.- Part II Doing PeaceTech.- 6 PeaceTech Ecosystem.- 7 Doing One Thing.- 8 PeaceTech as Hack.- 9 Conflict Early Warning Systems.- 10 Peace and Space.- 11 Peace Analytics.- Part III PeaceTech Challenges.- 12 Doing PeaceTech.- 13 Ethics and Morals.- 14 PeaceTech Futures.