IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v11y2019i20p5646-d276054.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Engineering for Peace and Diplomacy

Author

Listed:
  • Bernard Amadei

    (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0428, USA)

Abstract

A sustainable world must be a peaceful world, or it will not be. Engineers in the twenty-first century need to be more than providers of technical solutions, they also need to play an active role in peacebuilding efforts and contribute to diplomacy. This paper discusses the importance of developing peace engineering programs to educate global engineers with the attitudes, hard and soft skills, and knowledge necessary to work in the complex and challenging context of human development in their lifetime. There is an urgent need to develop an international community of practice in peace engineering and engineering diplomacy. The engineering profession must contribute to a culture of peace and take the lead in developing a peace-industrial complex.

Suggested Citation

  • Bernard Amadei, 2019. "Engineering for Peace and Diplomacy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(20), pages 1-17, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:11:y:2019:i:20:p:5646-:d:276054
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/20/5646/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/20/5646/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Robert Chambers & Deepa Narayan & Meera K. Shah & Patti Petesch, 2000. "Voices of the Poor : Crying Out for Change," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 13848.
    2. David Zelinka & Bernard Amadei, 2019. "A Systems Approach for Modeling Interactions Among the Sustainable Development Goals Part 2: System Dynamics," International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), IGI Global Scientific Publishing, vol. 8(1), pages 41-59, January.
    3. David Zelinka & Bernard Amadei, 2019. "Systems Approach for Modeling Interactions Among the Sustainable Development Goals Part 1: Cross-Impact Network Analysis," International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), IGI Global Scientific Publishing, vol. 8(1), pages 23-40, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Amadei, Bernard, 2020. "Revisiting positive peace using systems tools," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    2. Marinakis, Y. & Harvey, H.A. & Walsh, S.T., 2021. "The emergence of peace engineering and innovation," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kali Charan Rath & Surya Narayan Maharana & Jyoti Rajak, 2021. "Replacement of Human Labour With Integration of Machines Into a Self-Governing System," International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), IGI Global Scientific Publishing, vol. 10(2), pages 73-87, April.
    2. Amadei, Bernard, 2020. "Revisiting positive peace using systems tools," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    3. Hu, Zhibin & Wu, Guangdong & Wang, Tao & Yuan, Haixia, 2025. "Convergence of sustainable development goals evolution and Five-Year Plans reform: Lessons from China," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    4. Bernard Amadei, 2021. "Systemic Modeling of the Peace–Development Nexus," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-21, February.
    5. Yong Sebastian Nyam & Julius H. Kotir & Andries Jordaan & Abiodun Akintunde Ogundeji, 2022. "Identifying behavioural patterns of coupled water‐agriculture systems using system archetypes," Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(2), pages 305-323, March.
    6. Laura Camfield & Andrew Crabtree & Keetie Roelen, 2013. "Editorial: Poverty, Vulnerability and Resilience in a Post-2015 World," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 113(2), pages 599-608, September.
    7. Felix N. Fernando & Dennis R. Cooley, 2016. "An Oil Boom’s Effect on Quality of Life (QoL): Lessons from Western North Dakota," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 11(4), pages 1083-1115, December.
    8. Manoj K. Pandey, 2013. "Elderly's Health Shocks and Household's Ex-ante Poverty in India," ASARC Working Papers 2013-01, The Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre.
    9. Franziska Gassmann & Bruno Martorano & Jennifer Waidler, 2022. "How Social Assistance Affects Subjective Wellbeing: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(4), pages 827-847, April.
    10. Rebecca L. Thornton & Laurel E. Hatt & Erica M. Field & Mursaleena Islam & Freddy Solís Diaz & Martha Azucena González, 2010. "Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(S1), pages 181-206, September.
    11. Hazenbosch, Mirjam & Sui, Shen & Isua, Brus & Milner-Gulland, E.J. & Morris, Rebecca J. & Beauchamp, Emilie, 2022. "The times are changing: understanding past, current and future resource use in rural Papua New Guinea using participatory photography," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    12. van Noordwijk, Meine, 2019. "Integrated natural resource management as pathway to poverty reduction: Innovating practices, institutions and policies," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 172(C), pages 60-71.
    13. Matthys, Marie-Luise & Acharya, Sushant & Khatri, Sanjaya, 2021. "“Before cardamom, we used to face hardship”: Analyzing agricultural commercialization effects in Nepal through a local concept of the Good Life," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    14. Sarah White & Jethro Pettit, 2004. "Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-being," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2004-57, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    15. Scott, Lucy, 2014. "Transfers for extreme poverty reduction: Implications for patron-client relationships in the context of Bangladesh's agricultural reformation," WIDER Working Paper Series 029, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    16. Badunenko, Oleg & Cordero, Jose M. & Kumbhakar, Subal C., 2021. "Are you slacking? Where do you and your country stand in the happiness pursuit?," MPRA Paper 108316, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    17. Samuelson Appau & Sefa Awaworyi Churchill & Russell Smyth & Quanda Zhang, 2022. "Social Capital Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing of Older Chinese," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 160(2), pages 541-563, April.
    18. Folk, György, 2019. "Weal: the universal core of human well-being," MPRA Paper 97082, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    19. Peters, David H. & Muraleedharan, V.R., 2008. "Regulating India's health services: To what end? What future?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(10), pages 2133-2144, May.
    20. E Crowley, 2005. "Organizations of the Poor: Conditions for success," Working Papers id:9, eSocialSciences.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:11:y:2019:i:20:p:5646-:d:276054. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.