Information Technology for Peace and Security

IT Applications and Infrastructures in Conflicts, Crises, War, and Peace

Technological and scientific progress, especially the rapid development of information technologies (IT), plays a crucial role regarding questions of peace and security. This textbook addresses the significance and potentials of IT with respect to peace and security. For this purpose, the book offers an introduction to peace, conflict, and security studies, thereby focusing on technical and computer scientific perspectives. In the following, it sheds light on IT in war and conflicts (including cyber war, espionage, cyber defense, cyber deception, resilient infrastructures and dual use), as well as IT for peace (including cyber peace, confidence and security building measures, cyber arms control, verification), before a outlook is given.

Content

  • Introduction to natural and computer scientific perspectives of peace, conflict, and security studies
  • Cyber war, espionage, cyber defense, cyber deception, resilient infrastructures and dual use
  • Cyber peace, confidence and security building measures, cyber arms control, verification

Target Audience

  • Textbook for students of computer science, information systems, peace and conflict studies, and political science
  • Handbook for scientists, IT developers, and political advisors

Authors

  • PD Dr. Jürgen Altmann (TU Dortmund)
  • Ute Bernhard, Ingo Ruhmann (FIfF)
  • Dr. Matthias Englert (Öko Institut)
  • Prof. Dr. Dominik Herrmann (U Bamberg, Privacy and Information Security)
  • Prof. Dr. Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt, Secure Mobile Networks)
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, Security Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Götz Neuneck (ISFH, U Hamburg)
  • Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann, Annette Ripper (TU Darmstadt, Technophilosophy)
  • Prof. Dr. Christian Reuter, Marc-André Kaufhold, Thea Riebe, Larissa Aldehoff (TU Darmstadt, PEASEC)
  • Thomas Reinhold (ISFH, U Hamburg)
  • Prof. Dr. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt, Systems Security)
  • Dr. Niklas Schörnig (HSFK)
  • Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach, Dr. Kai Denker, Dr. Marcel Schäfer (Fraunhofer SIT, TU Darmstadt)
  • Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf, PD Dr. Markus Rohde, Konstantin Aal (Uni Siegen)

Editor

  • Prof. Dr. Christian Reuter (TU Darmstadt, PEASEC)