On March 13^th to 15^th the 55^th Colloquium of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies took place in Darmstadt. The topic of this year's colloquium was “Disciplines of Peace and Conflict Research in Dialogue: Synergies, similarities and differences with peace research in the natural sciences and technology”. In cooperation with PRIF, PEASEC and the Institute for Political Science at TU Darmstadt, it aimed to promote the dialogue between peace research in the social sciences and humanities, and peace research in the natural sciences and technology. The colloquium focused on various questions of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, the self-image of research and policy advice, but also the joint discussion of important aspects of international security and peace policy.

CNTR organized two panels. Liska Suckau, Niklas Schörnig, Frank Kuhn and Abdulla Korkusuz from CNTR and Bernhard Koch from the Institute for Theology and Peace Hamburg discussed Emerging Disruptive Technologies. Considering the trends and challenges of arms control they took a closer look on ethical and strategical implications of Human Enhancement and hypersonic weapons. On another panel, Thomas Reinhold and Niklas Schörnig, together with Stefka Schmid from TU Darmstadt, explored the challenges and opportunitites of artificial intelligence for arms export control, its regulation, and the preconditions and security risks of its military implementation. On a final plenary panel discussion, Christopher Daase and Christian Reuter discussed the overall significance of natural sciences and technology in peace and conflict studies for arms control research, its dual-use characteristics and the resulting responsibility of researchers.