Predicting and Reducing Religious Extremist Violence
The Problem People deeply convinced about what is good and what is evil can become devoted actors, in the double sense that they embrace sacred values that are utterly nonnegotiable, and they experience fusion between their personal identity and a group to which they belong. As devoted actors, they experience an assault upon their group […]
Reducing After-School Gun Violence
The Problem In some communities in the United States, just getting to and from school poses a complex optimization challenge that thousands of children need to solve every day. Children who need to walk to school want to take the short route, but they instinctively avoid danger zones: parts of their neighborhood where shootings occurred […]