Can the history of peace be written from Europe alone? Peace Beyond Westphalia answers with a resounding no. Across the chapters, contributors uncover peace traditions that the prevailing international legal order has overlooked: sacred architectures of dispute resolution in premodern South India, the legal legacy of Panchsheel, maritime ecological cooperation in the Bay of Bengal, women-led peacebuilding in Northeast India, and digital peace mobilisation across eight Asian languages. The volume develops a five-fold typology of Asian peace infrastructures and examines their implications for international legal doctrine, including the sources of international law, the Responsibility to Protect, and the law of neutrality in cyberspace. Essential reading for anyone seeking a genuinely global understanding of how peace is made and sustained.

Rapid advances in genomics may soon enable low-cost predictions of children's academic potential. To ensure this knowledge is used responsibly in educational settings, stakeholders require sound genetic literacy. This study assessed genetic knowledge, perceived heritability, and genetic attitudes in preservice teachers (n = 236; 83% female), practicing educators (n = 247; 93% female), and psychology students (n = 225; 87% female). Participants completed the International Genetic Literacy and Attitudes Survey (iGLAS), including a 20-item genetic knowledge test, 0–100 heritability judgments on 17 traits, and attitude items. Average genetic knowledge was below the 70% (14/20) benchmark indicating ‘good’ knowledge (M = 12.67, SD = 3.19). Trait heritability was both underestimated and overestimated relative to empirical estimates, though few differences were observed between groups. Higher genetic knowledge was associated with greater openness to genetic applications for medical treatment and research, but not with personalized education or trait enhancement.

Approximately one third of the world’s food production is ultimately wasted. Current estimates suggest that the amount of land used to grow food that is wasted is greater than twice the landmass of Australia, and Australia itself wastes a landmass larger than the state of Victoria. With over 2 billion people suffering from food insecurity, an estimated world population of 9.7 billion by 2050, and ongoing detrimental environmental damage caused by industrialisation, there is ever increasing motivation to develop new and effective strategies to maximise efficiency in utilising the world’s available natural resources. In order to begin planning, an understanding of the present is required. Over the last 25 years, the idea of recycling food waste as animal feed on an industrial scale has become a focus for many researchers and agricultural industries. In particular, the poultry industry is well situated to take advantage, as it is an industry that already uses by-products and is intensive in nature and often integrated. A literature review was conducted to compare existing studies on the amount and value of wasted food and resources, the nutritional composition of various streams of food waste, and its potential application as poultry feed. This review explored global studies, ultimately focusing on an Australian context; a country in which poultry is the highest consumed protein source per capita. Many causes of food waste were identified, as well as several emerging strategies to combat this. While nutritional variability is a commonly noted issue, the consensus among researchers is that, depending on the source, food waste could feasibly be used to substitute conventional ingredients such as corn and soybean meal in poultry diets without production loss, with likely economic advantages.

The present work demonstrates the impressive H₂ storage performance of the experimentally synthesized C₂O monolayer decorated with selected transition metals (TMs), namely Sc, Ti, and V. The transition metals are strongly adsorbed on C₂O, with all three, Sc, Ti, and V, exhibiting robust and stable anchoring. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations confirm the structural stability of the TM-doped C₂O systems up to 600 K, while their dynamical stability is verified through phonon calculations. Furthermore, nudged elastic band calculations reveal substantial energy barriers for metal migration (Sc = 2.47 eV, Ti = 2.48 eV, and V = 2.37 eV), indicating the absence of metal aggregation and clustering effects. Electronic structure calculations reveal that pristine C₂O is semiconducting (2.06 eV), whereas TM incorporation induces metallic behavior with enhanced conductivity. The TM-decorated C₂O monolayer efficiently adsorbs up to five H₂ molecules per metal site through synergistic electrostatic and van der Waals interactions. Remarkably, the Sc-, Ti-, and V-decorated C₂O monolayers deliver theoretical gravimetric hydrogen storage capacities of 8.69, 8.47, and 6.72 wt%, respectively, all exceeding the 5.50 wt% benchmark set by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for 2025. At full hydrogenation, the average H₂ adsorption energies are calculated to be −0.26, −0.47, and −0.21 eV per H₂ molecule for Sc-, Ti-, and V-doped C₂O systems, respectively. Storage properties under fuel-cell operating conditions are evaluated in terms of H₂ uptake and occupation number using the canonical partition function. The corresponding desorption temperature analysis further confirms the reversibility and practical viability of hydrogen storage in these systems.