On this next episode of Transrational Perspectives we discuss Postmodern understandings of peace.

Elicitive Curricular Development: A Manual for Scholar-Practitioners Developing Courses in International Peace and Conflict Studies (ECDM) co-authored with Josefina Echavarría Alvarez and Adham Hamed. This book outlines the central principles of the University of Innsb...

In this next episode of Transrational Perspectives Shawn and I cover the modern peace family.

Happy to share the publication of my new article, “Transpersonal consciousness in elicitive teaching” in the Special Issue on Transrational Perspectives in Peace Education.

In our fifth episode of Transrational Perspectives, we focus on moral understandings of peace.

Another set of fears surrounding A.I. stems not from the technology itself, but from the ways in which it may be pursued. The financial, military and political incentives make an A.I. “arms race” seem inevitable, as countries, companies and other actors compete to be t...

In our fourth episode of Transrational Perspectives, we focus on energetic understandings of peace.

At its core A.I will be a deeply transformative technology. Current fears about the future development of A.I. come from the intersections of models of predicting the future, the limitations of those models and our own projections onto technologies.

Much of the discussi...

This third episode of Transrational Perspectives focuses on the development of the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, its relationship to Postmodernism and the development of the "Many Peaces" approach to Peace Studies. 

In the past, humans turned new technologies into weapons. Given the strategic advantages A.I. possesses, we can predict that someone will use A.I. as a weapon. This presents a  security paradox:  a sense of insecurity occurs because of what we assume to be the future a...