Our Talk Series “Big Ideas on Complexity Science and Sustainable Peace” Highlighted in State of the Planet

From the State of the Planet Blog:

By Peter T. Coleman & Chris Straw
A few years ago, our research team at Columbia was asked to work on addressing a problem of ongoing gang violence in a public school in the South Bronx. The school had been faced with recurring patterns of vandalism, theft and intimidation by gang members for years. The problems would ebb and flow but were always present. At some point, tensions between some of the gangs escalated, and the school was afraid of violent retaliations. It was a bad situation that kept getting worse and the community felt burned out and hopeless about it… Read the article here.

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