Abstract
This chapter discusses a systems approach to incorporate principles of respectful space design into the emerging fields of Peace Engineering, Peace Data, and Peace Finance. These “peace-fields” require the knowledge of human behavior, the influence of technology, and our institutions that are components of respectful space design. Additionally, the inclusion of these fields address the needs for a post-colonial perspective(s) and the elimination of conflict roadblocks in respectful space creation. As an example, we discuss the limitations of the international communities’ ambitions, specifically the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), where the inclusion of this systems approach should be useful. The system is presented as a triangular construct to align on the global themes of re-designing engineering education, re-engineering prosperity, and emphasizing intersectionality. By enhancing the transformative shift provided by finance, data, and engineering, we present opportunities to widen structural global-cultural peripheral views; unveiling cultural blind spots; and create non-colonial metrics.
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We define Hyper-equality as equality of rate, not state. That is, between any two entities, with hyper-equality we are more interested in the equality of the rate of progress for both, rather than the relative state of progress between them at any given moment. Hyper-equality is thus a dynamic “left-foot, right foot” process of one group intentionally investing in over-empowering another, so as to deliberately advance the second group beyond them rather than just to the same level, so that the second group can then return the favor for the first, in what is thus a repeatable cycle of rapid shared progress. This allows both groups to quickly advance in a manner analogous to two legs walking, where each in turn helps launch the other past them. Contrast this with our current view of equality, where one’s left foot would only cooperate to bring the right foot up to where it is—but no further, as this would violate equality in the other direction—which is perceived as something to be avoided! The key concept here is to model the cooperative socio-economic advance of two otherwise competing groups over time, so that we are measuring a shared, dynamic rate of progress rather than trying to achieve some fixed but static parity in relation to each other.
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Mediating technology: any technology of which two or more people can communicate across (Guadagno et al. 2018).
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Notes from the Proceedings of the preparatory workshop for the first international Peace Engineering Summer Institute, Aug 2019 between Jacob Øvernes, Himanshu Gautam, Mark Nelson, and Aniek van Kersen (unpublished).
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van Kersen, A., Hughes, J.B., Quihuis, M., Nelson, M. (2022). Peace Data, Peace Finance, and Peace Engineering: Advancing the Design of Respectful Spaces and Sustainable Development Goals. In: Mahmoudi, H., Allen, M.H., Seaman, K. (eds) Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79072-1_7
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