Renginiai Kita Darmštatas, Vokietija 2023

Technology is increasingly used by various actors for conflict transformation and promoting peace, aiming to reduce violence in the long term. The geopolitics of infrastructure, such as energy and climate change, is an urgent topic. Infrastructures play a role in conflicts, global injustice, and peaceful conflict transformation. The conference seeks contributions on the geopolitics of infrastructure and their role. The regulation and proliferation of security-relevant technologies and their design are important considerations. Energy systems and their infrastructures have been discussed in relation to conflicts over oil, gas, and the dual use of nuclear energy. The recent debate on the geopolitics of renewable energies and the Russian invasion of Ukraine highlights the impact of energy technologies and infrastructures on conflict transformation.