28 Years of Walking the Global Streets and a Challenge: ISTEC 1990-2018

This report from the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) shares insights gained from 28 years of experience in advocating for the use of science and technology as the common language and catalyst for social, political and economic development.

With the vision of using science and technology language for practical use in international Peace Engineering efforts, ISTEC shares information, technology, and services among allies from academia, industry, government agencies and multilateral organizations.

Trust is the foundation for ISTEC’s success, with the authors highlighting the importance of transparency, efficiency, effectiveness, professionalism, competitiveness, competence, knowledge, culture of quality and accountability. 28 Years Walking the Global Streets and a Challenge explores problems ISTEC has encountered and identified, the initiatives developed to tackle these problems and the successes and failures—drawing on experiences from organization management, project
development and execution of the different initiatives.

One of the aims of this publication is to offer a dialogue under Peace Engineering to address the current and future Global Challenges and issues a challenge to the IFEES community to create a Peace Engineering initiative under which concrete efforts can be identified, developed, funded and executed.