Effects of Scientific Progress on Peace State: Challenges and Achievements

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MA in International Law, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

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Since the beginning of history, scientific progresshas been effective on the state of peace through employing two major tools: the hardware tools and the software tools. Although in the period before the adoption of the United Nation Charter, military hardware tools ranging from sword, bows and arrows in ancient time to submarines and fighter jets  at present, all have been serving as inseparable part as well as one of the main factors involved in the break of wars, but after the adoption of the United Nations Charter, the states procedures underwent changes particularly due to the impacts of the two World Wars on humanity’s destiny and parallel to maintaining peace. Governments have been also moving towards using non-military hardware tools including international and regional organizations, with the United Nations on top of all. Furthermore, after accepting the Charter, governments have been aware of the attention paid by the international community to software tools which serve as a collection of duties and liabilities in regional and international levels as the product of the activities rendered by the global political actors, particularly the international laws [activists]. This is an important issue especially knowing that software tools implementation relies on hardware tools and in some extent, it is the introductory procedure of using the recent tools in the post UN international community. Although one might easily highlight the positive application of software tools; particularly after the establishment of the United Nations, there exists the risk of negative use or misuse of those tools as well.

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