This book challenges the current thinking and strategies in the field of global peace and security. It is clear that current global public and private institutions are inadequate for the challenges we face today. These challenges cut across borders and require a more coordinated and concerted effort to find workable solutions. This book therefore begins with the question of global leadership and works its way back to the interconnected dynamics of global modernity and conflict. It is divided into four parts, each addressing a fundamental challenge to global peace and security. By exploring how we break out of the current framework, in which we understand global activities and the distribution of resources, and this book provides new ways of understanding the material, cultural, political, and spiritual relations that form the basis of international society.

Hoda Mahmoudi is Research Professor and Chair, The Baháí Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA.

Michael Allen is Professor and Chair of Political Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science, and Co-Director of International Studies, Bryn Mawr College, USA.

Kate Seaman is Assistant Director, The Baháí Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, USA. 

Chapter One Introduction: Securing the Future of Humanity in Challenging Times.- Section One - Leadership, Global Governance, and Peace.- Chapter Two: Section Introduction: Why we need more effective leadership at the global level.- Chapter Three: Where Democratization and Globalization Meet.- Chapter Four: New Thinking about Global Governance in an Intermestic World.- Chapter Five: Fragmented Responsibility in a Global World.- Section Two - Technology and Peace.- Chapter Six - Section Introduction: Why Technology is not the solution for everything.- Chapter Seven: Peace Data, Peace Finance, and Peace Engineering: Advancing the design of respectful spaces and Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter Eight: Decentralized Networks vs. The Trolls.- Chapter Nine: Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers.- Section Three - Structural Inequalities.- Chapter Ten: Section Introduction:  Why we need to acknowledge the inequalities inthe international system.- Chapter Eleven: Women, Peace, and Security: What are the Connections? What are the Limitations?.- Chapter Twelve: Environmental Reproductive Justice: Intersections in an American Indian Community Impacted by Environmental Contamination.- Chapter Thirteen: Peace, Violence, and Inequality in a Climate Disrupted world.- Section Four: Coda.- Chapter Fourteen: Coda Introduction: Pushing towards the future.- Chapter Fifteen: Peace in Pieces: Limits to Progress in Economy, Ethics, and World Order.