Behavioral Insights in Peace Building and Development: Workshop on 29-30 August 2019

The Research Centre "Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries" at Göttingen University will host the workshop "Behavioral Insights in Peace Building and Development" between the 29th and 30th of August in Göttingen. It is organised by Prof. Marcela Ibañez Diaz, Ph.D., Professor for behavioral development economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics.

The objective of the workshop is to bring together academics working in the areas of behavioral economics, conflict and more general development economics to discuss the pathways to peace building in conflict-affected areas. The keynote speakers are Ana Maria Arjona, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Northwestern University (USA), and Chris Blattman, Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago (USA).