CNTR Monitor 2025: New Realities of AI in Global Security

The latest CNTR Monitor focuses on the current boom in artificial intelligence and its impacts on global security. Open access

Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research

We research emerging technologies and developments in the natural sciences from an interdisciplinary perspective. Military innovations, digital warfare and disinformation influence the balance of power and create uncertainty. In order to provide impetus for arms control at the international level, it is important not only to identify emerging problems at an early stage, but also to have the technical competence to address these problems. That is why we develop scientifically sound bases for recommendations for action to strengthen arms control.

In the CNTR research and transfer cluster, researchers from the natural and social sciences work together closely. We are based at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), the Technical University of Darmstadt and Justus Liebig University Giessen.

CNTR is organized into three research groups:

These three groups work together on the cross-cutting topics of artificial intelligence and verification. The natural and technical science research is complemented by the research area “Arms Control Law”.

Scientific and Technical Peace and Conflict Research

Chapter by Christian Reuter, Jürgen Scheffran & Malte Kreutle

In view of the use of chemical weapons, new developments in biotechnology and information technology, and the threat of nuclear weapons, nuclear, biological, chemical, and information technology disarmament and arms control face major challenges. This makes findings from scientific and technical disciplines enormously important for research on war and peace, armament, and disarmament. They support political processes of war prevention, disarmament, and confidence-building through analyses of the characteristics, consequences, and control options of new types of weapons and technologies.

Bibliographic record

Reuter, C., Scheffran, J & Kreutle, M. (2025). Naturwissenschaftlich-technische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. In: Gießmann, H.-J., Rinke, B. & Engels, B. (eds.) Handbuch Frieden. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. pp. 63–75.

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Scientific and Technical Peace and Conflict Research

Chapter by Christian Reuter, Jürgen Scheffran & Malte Kreutle

In view of the use of chemical weapons, new developments in biotechnology and information technology, and the threat of nuclear weapons, nuclear, biological, chemical, and information technology disarmament and arms control face major challenges. This makes findings from scientific and technical disciplines enormously important for research on war and peace, armament, and disarmament. They support political processes of war prevention, disarmament, and confidence-building through analyses of the characteristics, consequences, and control options of new types of weapons and technologies.

Bibliographic record

Reuter, C., Scheffran, J & Kreutle, M. (2025). Naturwissenschaftlich-technische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. In: Gießmann, H.-J., Rinke, B. & Engels, B. (eds.) Handbuch Frieden. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. pp. 63–75.

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