Inventing Peace

Another focus in my lab is what we call "peace innovation." We're investigating how technology can help change attitudes and behaviors in ways that bring about global harmony. We know this is an idealistic project, and we may fail. But given the state of the world, choosing not to pursue this line of research would be irrational. I created a Stanford course on Peace Innovation, and I was pleased with how the students performed. We’ve starting solving a big piece of the puzzle: creating simple and reliable methods to measure peace-related outcomes.