Peace Engineering Biome

UNM’s Peace Engineering Biome is a transdisciplinary, multi-institutional center charged with leading the peace engineering movement nationally and globally.

To create successful, sustainable peace solutions to the complex problems we face presently, and in the future, engineers must draw on the expertise of other disciplines including social and community-based psychology, anthropology, sociology, medicine and law (and in turn, these disciplines should be exposed to engineering), and work with the finance and business communities on comprehensive models for risk, mitigation, transparency and return on peace engineering initiatives. The Biome will strive to integrate these multiple disciplines to address global issues including but not limited to climate change, rapid urbanization, and population growth and migration.

The Biome will strive to establish and emphasize the roles and contributions of engineers and scientists in diplomacy and policymaking. This includes promoting science, technology and engineering literacy in policy makers, and increasing diplomacy and policy literacy in scientists, technologists, and engineers.