PEACE TECHNOLOGY, an idea for sustainable World Peace and successful businesses
What is Peace Technology?
- It is technology for civil action that can help remove obstacles and facilitate the return to or establishment of a normally functioning, peaceful society.
- A contribution to security policy to promote World peace and labour market policies that may create jobs in Swedish and other export industries. Also useful for disaster relief!
- A new and important, innovative niche area that can bring great success to exports of goods and services while also contributing practically to the UN's work on disarmament and peace-promoting work.
- We have seen the terms Military Technology, War Technology and Defence Technology! Today it is all too clear that the most important goal is not to win a war but to conquer a lasting peace and to facilitate the return to normal conditions in troubled, affected countries and areas.
Examples of Peace Technology areas
- Technical systems and equipment for democratic development,
- Communication, reporting, reconnaissance and surveillance, administrative systems,
- Maintenance and repair of critical infrastructure and other buildings,
- Rapidly built housing and other premises,
- Protective equipment for people and buildings,
- Humanitarian clearance (Demining) of land-, sea mines and minefields,
- Detection, collection, safe storage, protection and destruction of weapons, munitions and explosives, UXO (unexploded ordnance), ammunition stores and dumps, including chemical munitions and substances, and their environmentally safe destruction
Why?
- Peace on earth must be our ultimate goal! Today we use far too many resources on military, war and defense technologies and may forget that the main goal is peace!
- Alfred Nobel realised that a Peace Prize was needed! These technologies are needed!
Read more, and contact!
Translation from The Royal Swedish Academy of Military Sciences, Transactions and Journal (KKrVA Handlingar och Tidskrift),
218(2015)4 pp 82-105, https://kkrva.se/peace-technology
contact:
Hans Wallin, hans.wallin@cesium.se, +46 72 586 3884;
Bo Janzon bo.janzon@secrab.eu, +46 70 433 4630