Peace Mapping Joins Digital Earth

While War Mapping has been a favorite of the current administration, a group of entrepreneur spirited individuals have been investigating the promise of Peace Mapping. After all, if you can map peace how can we ever expect to find it? The Club of Rome had joined with Astrid Stuckelberger, of the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) ( astrid.stuckelberger@sgg-ssg.ch) and Elly Pradervand, Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) (wwsf@wwsf.ch) to promote an enhanced understanding and appreciation of the prowess and potential for peace mapping initiatives (http://www.dcaf.ch/wdp/). Ambassador John McDonald, Institute for Multi-Track Diplomancy (www.imtd.org) is co-leading the Peace Mapping committee to bring lifetime of experience in conflict resolution to this high-priority arena. If Digital Earth can not contribute significantly to the challenge of defining the constiuent parts for social decline and dysenfrachisment as well as pathways for peaceful transitions to sustainable communities, then why bother. Peace Mapping presentations may prove to be one of the most important contributions to the San Francisco gathering.