In 2018, at WEEF-GEDC-2018, we defined Peace Engineering as the intentional application of systemic-level thinking of science, technology and engineering principles to directly promote and support conditions for peace. Peace Engineering works directly towards a world where prosperity, sustainability, social equity, entrepreneurship, transparency, community voice and engagement, ethics and a culture of quality thrive. Engineers have the power to play a vital role in the creative solutions that can radically transform and improve the wellbeing of people and other living systems, day to day.
At the core of Peace Engineering is our planet’s sustainable future, which is calling leaders to act in concert from a systems mindset. It is a call to develop solutions differently: that is, collaboratively; integrating transdisciplinary expertise and education programs; simultaneously applying technology solutions while supporting ethics, policy and living systems. And it is a call in the mingled vernacular of civil society, global institutions, and science and technology. Further, beyond addressing today’s challenges, we must cultivate together the development of next generation leaders to continue to drive momentum. We want a new mindset for all existing disciplines, not only engineering, and new ones we have to create to address the global challenges.
About the speaker:
Ramiro Jordán was born in Bolivia, South America and studied his postgraduate at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata in Argentina from where he obtained the title of Electrical Engineer. In 1987 he received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the Kansas State University. Since then, he joined the select team of professors and researchers at the University of New Mexico, which houses the most prestigious schools of Engineering in the United States. He has centered his activities of research in software engineering, digital processing of signs and images, communications network, microprocessors and microcontrollers. In 1990, after he made an investigation regarding the future of the Science and the Technology in Latin America and after meeting with representatives of several universities and industry of the private sector, he created ISTEC (Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium), of which he is now the Strategic Manager. ISTEC is a non-profit organization that its objective is to plan and implement projects and programs to promote the development of the superior education, the research, and the transfer of technology of scientific and technological matter in the region. He has received several awards and distinctions like the Order of Rio Branco in the Official rank granted in 1998 by the Government of Brazil and the International Award of Excellence from the University of New Mexico in 1999, distinguishing and compromising him in the search of solutions to the common problems of development in the region.
