Most Read Articles of 2024
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
Behavioral scientists working in peace and conflict grapple with questions of how prejudice becomes violence, how exclusion begets extremism, and how capable we are of change. The answers are far from simple, but not out of reach.
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.
How does our psychology fuel conflict? How might it help bring peace? Behavioral scientists are racing to answer these questions in the face of increasing global conflict.