Peace - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

Moss Kanter: Transitions are smooth and peaceful when there is wide consensus that the team or company or country is on a successful trajectory—what I call a winning streak. Then it is also likely that the successors have been endorsed by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict Authors: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Publication: In Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict, edited by Michelle Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas. Oxford University Press,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

mutually assured destruction. What America requires is a new security concept that the authors call "strategic independence" to enable keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of leaders capable of acting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

articulation of a secular basis for social organization, rooted in commerce, and their insistence that political economy trumped theology as the underpinning for peace and prosperity within and among nations. I argue that the Italian... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

campaign backfired because the Electoral Commission failed to fulfill its commitment to deliver a transparent and peaceful election. The decrease in trust is stronger in areas that experienced election-related violence and for individuals... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

John Maynard Keynes. The book that made Keynes famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920), is an easy read, a model of concision and argument. Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) is much more... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

production; (c) development of peaceful interpersonal relations; and (d) education of committed and solidarity-conscious citizens. The first axis was implemented through alliances with labor cooperatives, while the remaining three were... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

self-examination caused many to ask whether they were making all they could of their lives. Author Po Bronson struck a newly exposed nerve with the book What Should I Do with My Life? His message is about a good life measured by peace and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

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