Boaz Hameiri is the head of the Evens Program in Conflict Management and Mediation at Tel Aviv University. His work develops psychological interventions to address barriers to peace and promote better intergroup relations and conflict resolution. He completed his Ph.D. in social psychology at Tel Aviv University and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Peace & Conflict Neuroscience Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
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.