Andrés Casas is a behavioral and decision scientist based in Colombia. He is the founder of Neuropaz, an international conference focused on peace and behavioral science. He is also the principal investigator for the World Values Survey in Colombia. Previously he was a researcher at the Peace & Conflict Neuroscience Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds masters degrees in behavior and decisions sciences as well as philosophy, and he is dual Ph.D. researcher in neuroscience and conflict resolution and management.
To help build peace in Colombia, we gave the people most affected by the conflict—victims and ex-combatants—a platform to share their stories with other Colombians across the country. Hearing those stories transformed how people understood their former enemies.