Anja-Liisa Gonsior, M.A.

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Doktorandin

Kontakt: +49 (0) 6151 / 1620947 | gonsior@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Informatik,
Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC)
Pankratiusstraße 2, 64289 Darmstadt, Raum 113

DE

Anja-Liisa Gonsior ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin am Lehrstuhl Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC) am Fachbereich Informatik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Ihre Forschungsinteressen liegen in den Bereichen autonome Waffensysteme, Meaningful Human Control, (Cyber-)Rüstungskontrolle, (naturwissenschaftlich-technische) Friedens- und Konfliktforschung sowie kritische Sicherheitsstudien.
Anja-Liisa studierte im Bachelor Politikwissenschaft und Anglistik an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt und der Maynooth University in Irland und im Master Internationale Studien/Friedens- und Konfliktforschung an der TU Darmstadt und Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. In ihrer Masterarbeit beschäftigte sie sich mit dem intersektionalen Bias letaler autonomer Waffensysteme und dessen Berücksichtigung und Sichtbarkeit innerhalb von Rüstungskontrollverhandlungen. Während des Studiums arbeitete sie als studentische Hilfskraft bei PEASEC.

EN

Anja-Liisa Gonsior is a research associate and PhD candidate at Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her research interests include autonomous weapon systems, Meaningful Human Control, (cyber) arms control, (scientific and technical) peace and conflict studies, and critical security studies.
Anja-Liisa studied Political Science and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and Maynooth University in Ireland for her Bachelor’s degree and International Studies/Peace and Conflict Studies at TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt for her Master’s degree. Her master’s thesis focused on the intersectional bias of lethal autonomous weapons systems and its consideration and visibility within arms control negotiations. During her studies she worked as a student assistant at PEASEC.

Publikationen

  • Christian Reuter, Anja-Liisa Gonsior, Thea Riebe, Marc-André Kaufhold (2024)
    Peace Informatics: Bridging Peace and Conflict Studies with Computer Science
    In: Christian Reuter: Information Technology for Peace and Security – IT-Applications and Infrastructures in Conflicts, Crises, War, and Peace. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Vieweg.
    [BibTeX] [Abstract]

    Advances in science and technology play a crucial role in the context of peace, conflict and security. As information technology (IT) is becoming omnipresent, this includes both the resilience of IT infrastructures e.g. as a target in cases of conflict and the role of IT applications to prevent and manage conflicts, crises and disasters. This chapter is an introduction to IT and its role in war and peace, in conflicts and crises as well as in safety and security. Based on those connections a new field of research has emerged: IT peace research. It is introduced in this chapter which provides an overview of the inter-disciplinary concepts of peace, conflict and security. In addition, the research disciplines computer science and peace and conflict studies as the basis of IT peace research are explained. Moreover, the chapter focuses on the specific research topics of IT peace research and presents the institutionalised research landscape in Germany.

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    author = {Reuter, Christian and Gonsior, Anja-Liisa and Riebe, Thea and Kaufhold, Marc-André},
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    year = {2024},
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    }

  • Christian Reuter, Konstantin Aal, Jürgen Altmann, Ute Bernhardt, Kai Denker, Anja-Liisa Gonsior, Dominik Herrmann, Matthias Hollick, Marc-André Kaufhold, Thomas Reinhold, Thea Riebe, Ingo Ruhmann, KlausPeter Saalbach, Niklas Schörnig, Ali Sunyaev, Volker Wulf, Laura Guntrum, Jonas Franken, Stefka Schmid (2024)
    Outlook: The Future of IT in Peace and Security
    In: Christian Reuter: Information Technology for Peace and Security – IT-Applications and Infrastructures in Conflicts, Crises, War, and Peace. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Vieweg.
    [BibTeX] [Abstract]

    Not only today, but also in the future information technology and the advances in the field of computer science will have a high relevance for peace and security. Naturally, a textbook like this can only cover a selective part of research and a certain point in time. Nonetheless, it can be attempted to identify trends, challenges and venture an outlook into the future. That is exactly what we want to achieve in this chapter: To predict fu-ture developments and try to classify them correctly. These considerations were made both by the editor and the authors involved alike. Therefore, an outlook based on fun-damentals, cyber conflicts and war, cyber peace, cyber arms control, infrastructures as well as social interaction is given.

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    editor = {Reuter, Christian},
    year = {2024},
    keywords = {Security, Peace, Projekt-CROSSING},
    }

  • Christian Reuter, Jonas Franken, Anja-Liisa Gonsior, Laura Guntrum, Stefka Schmid, Thea Riebe (2024)
    An Overview and Introduction to Information Technology for Peace and Security
    In: Christian Reuter: Information Technology for Peace and Security – IT-Applications and Infrastructures in Conflicts, Crises, War, and Peace. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Vieweg.
    [BibTeX] [Abstract]

    Technological and scientific progress, especially the rapid development in information technology (IT), plays a crucial role regarding questions of peace and security. This textbook addresses the significance, potentials and challenges of IT for peace and securi-ty. For this purpose, the book offers an introduction to peace, conflict, and security research, thereby focusing on natural science, technical and computer science perspec-tives. In the following, it sheds light on fundamentals (e.g. IT in peace, conflict and security, natural-science/technical peace research), cyber conflicts and war (e.g. infor-mation warfare, cyber espionage, cyber defence, Darknet), cyber peace (e.g. dual-use, technology assessment, confidence and security building measures), cyber arms control (e.g. arms control in the cyberspace, unmanned systems, verification), cyber attribution and infrastructures (e.g. attribution of cyber attacks, resilient infrastructures, secure critical information infrastructures), culture and interaction (e.g. safety and security, cultural violence, social media), before an outlook is given. This chapter provides an overview of all chapters in this book.

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  • Anja-Liisa Gonsior, Thea Riebe, Stefka Schmid, Thomas Reinhold, Christian Reuter (2023)
    Friedensinformatik: heute und morgen
    FIfF-Kommunikation: Zeitschrift für Informatik und Gesellschaft ;2023(4):34–37.
    [BibTeX] [Download PDF]

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    number = {4},
    journal = {FIfF-Kommunikation: Zeitschrift für Informatik und Gesellschaft},
    author = {Gonsior, Anja-Liisa and Riebe, Thea and Schmid, Stefka and Reinhold, Thomas and Reuter, Christian},
    year = {2023},
    keywords = {Peace},
    pages = {34--37},
    }