Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity

Chapter One Introduction: Securing the Future of Humanity in Challenging Times

Section One - Leadership, Global Governance, and Peace

Chapter Two: Section Introduction: Why we need more effective leadership at the global level

Chapter Three: Where Democratization and Globalization Meet

Chapter Four: New Thinking about Global Governance in an Intermestic World

Chapter Five: Fragmented Responsibility in a Global World

Section Two - Technology and Peace

Chapter Seven: Peace Data, Peace Finance, and Peace Engineering: Advancing the design of respectful spaces and Sustainable Development Goals

Chapter Eight: Decentralized Networks vs. The Trolls

Chapter Nine: Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers

Section Three - Structural Inequalities

Chapter Ten: Section Introduction: Why we need to acknowledge the inequalities in the international system

Chapter Eleven: Women, Peace, and Security: What are the Connections? What are the Limitations?

Chapter Twelve: Environmental Reproductive Justice: Intersections in an American Indian Community Impacted by Environmental Contamination

Chapter Thirteen: Peace, Violence, and Inequality in a Climate Disrupted world

Section Four: Coda

Chapter Fourteen: Coda Introduction: Pushing towards the future

Chapter Fifteen: Peace in Pieces: Limits to Progress in Economy, Ethics, and World Order

Hoda Mahmoudi is Research Professor and Chair, The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.

Michael Allen is Professor and Chair of Political Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science, and Co-Director of International Studies, Bryn Mawr College, USA.

Kate Seaman is Assistant Director, The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.