Engineering Peace: Turning Conflict Prevention from Art to Science

Engineering Peace

The development community often treats war as an inevitable natural disaster, but new empirical research is changing that narrative. By applying rigorous data analysis and randomized field experiments, we are discovering cost-effective tools to prevent cycles of violence. My work at Peace Per Dollar aims to prove that individual-level interventions can scale to stop large-scale conflicts, offering a scientific roadmap for building lasting peace.

"Spending time with members of rival groups, whatever the benefits of getting to know them in the long term, makes salient the fact that there is a conflict in the short term."