2020 Conflict and Polarization Conference

Registration and Lunch

Chris Blattman (University of Chicago): Why We Fight

Lakshmi Iyer (University of Notre Dame): Leader Identity and Coordination

Saumitra Jha (Stanford University): Remaining European: The Effects of Financial Market Exposure on the Brexit Vote

Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption (with David Atkin and Eve Colson-Sihra)

Salma Mousa (Stanford University): Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq

Roger Myerson (University of Chicago): State-Building Lessons from the British Empire

Coffee Break

followed by a reception in the lobby

Continental Breakfast

Mina Cikara (Harvard University): Narratives Shape Cognitive Representations of Immigrants and Policy Preferences

Julia Minson (Harvard University): You Can’t Handle the Truth! Errors in Affective Perspective-Taking during Disagreement

Roni Porat (Princeton University): Anger at Work

Robb Willer (Stanford University): Moral Reframing: A Technique for Effective and Persuasive Communication across Political Divides

Coffee Break

Alana Conner (Twitter): Nudging Healthier Behaviour on Social Media

Rachel Kleinfeld (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): Polarization, Political Violence, and the Security Services: Preventing a Vicious Cycle

Antonio Silva (Behavioural Insights Team, UK): How Behavioural Science Can Reduce Polarisation and Susceptibility to Misinformation

Uzra Zeya (Alliance for Peacebuilding): Peacebuilding Begins at Home: US Conflict Drivers Demand New Approaches

followed by lunch