Media
Publications
Analysis of “Peace Speech” Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Liebovitch, L. S., Wild, M., & Coleman, P. T. In Douglas P. Fry and Geneviève Souillac (eds.) The De Gruyter Handbook of Conflict Resolution and Planetary Peace: Living Sustainably on a Shared Planet (2025).
Classifying peace in global media using RAG and intergroup reciprocity
Lian, K., Liebovitch, L. S., Wild, M., West, H., & Coleman, P. T., Chen, F., Kimani, K., & Sieck, K. Published in the IEEE CISS2025 Conference Proceedings (2025).
Machine Learning classification of peaceful countries: A comparative analysis and dataset optimization
Lian, K., Liebovitch, L. S., Wild, M., West, H., & Coleman, P. T., Chen, F., Kimani, K., & Sieck, K. Published in the IEEE CISS2025 Conference Proceedings (2025).
Words that represent peace
Prasad, T, Liebovitch, L. S., Wild, M., West, H., & Coleman, P. T. Published in the IEEE CISS2025 Conference Proceedings (2025).
Word differences in news media of lower and higher peace countries revealed by natural language processing and machine learning
Larry S. Liebovitch, William Powers, Lin Shi, Allegra Chen-Carrel, Philippe Loustaunau, Peter T. Coleman (2023).
Could ‘Peace Speech’ Save the Planet?
Key, Lindsay. Published in State of the Planet on January 5, 2022.
news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/01/05/could-peace-speech-save-the-planet
Learning with Peaceful, Heterogenous Communities: Lessons on Sustaining Peace in Mauritius.
Aumeerally, N., Chen-Carrel, A. & Coleman, P. T. In Peace and Conflict Studies (2022).
Peace is more than war's absence, and new research explains how to build it
Coleman, P.T., Chen-Carrel, A., & Steuber, V. Published in Scientific American on December 2, 2021.
Peace Speech can build, sustain peacefulness.
P.T. Coleman & A. Chen-Carrel (2021). Published in The Peace Journalist in October, 2021.
What Can We Learn from the World’s Most Peaceful Societies?
Coleman, P.T. & Fry, D.P. Published in Greater Good Magazine on June 7th, 2021.
greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_can_we_learn_from_the_worlds_most_peaceful_societies
This anthropologist explains how humanity can realistically end war — forever
Short, A. Published in Alternet on April 8, 2021.
Existing Peace Systems Demonstrate Peaceful Intergroup and International Relationships Are Possible
Published in Peace Science Digest on April 5, 2021.
What does it take to live in peace?
A report on lessons from Mauritius
ac4.earth.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Mauritius%20Report%20%281%29.pdf
What does it take to live in peace?
A report on lessons learned from Mauritius
What is needed to live in peace?
A report on lessons from Mauritius
ac4.earth.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Ki%20bizin%20pou%20viv%20anpe_%20%282%29.pdf
Societies within peace systems avoid war and build positive intergroup relationships
D. P. Fry, G. Souillac, L. S. Liebovitch, P. T. Coleman, K. Agan, E. Nicholson-Cox, D. Mason, F. Palma Gomez & S. Strauss (2021). Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
How to live in peace? Mapping the science of sustaining peace: A progress report
Coleman, P. T., Fisher, J., Fry, D. P., Liebovitch, L. S., Chen-Carrel, A., & Souillac, G. (2020). American Psychologist.
Taking Complex Systems Seriously: Visualizing and Modeling the Dynamics of Sustainable Peace
Coleman, P.T., Liebovitch, L.S., Fisher J. (2019). Global Policy Journal.
Complexity analysis of sustainable peace: mathematical models and data science measurements
Liebovitch, L.S., Coleman, P.T., Bechhofer, A, Colon, C, Donahue, J, Eisenbach, C, Guzmán-Vargas, L, Jacobs, D, Khan, A, Li, C, Maksumov, D. (2019). New Journal of Physics.
Approaches to Understanding Sustainable Peace: Qualitative Causal Loop Diagrams and Quantitative Mathematical Models
Liebovitch, L. S., Coleman, P. T., Fisher, J. (2019). American Behavioral Scientist.
Modeling the Dynamics of Sustainable Peace
Liebovitch, L. S., Coleman, P. T., Futran, D., Lee, D., Lichter, T., Burgess, N. & Ripla, C. C. (2018). In Mathematical Modeling of Social Relationships (pp. 147-159). Springer, Cham.
Half the peace: The fear challenge and the case for promoting peace.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Published in Courier on August 26, 2018.
Costa Rica: Choosing a path to peace.
Coleman, P. T., and Donahue, J. (2018). Published in the IPI Global Observatory on September 7, 2018.
theglobalobservatory.org/2018/09/costa-rica-choosing-path-to-build-sustain-peace
Half the peace: The fear challenge and the case for promoting peace.
Coleman, P. T. (2018). Published in IPI Global Observatory on March 19, 2018.
theglobalobservatory.org/2018/03/half-the-peace-fear-challenge-promoting-peace
The Science of Sustaining Peace: What the UN should learn about peaceful societies.
Coleman, P. T., Fry, D. P., Liebovitch, L. S., Donahue, J., Fisher, J., Fisher- Yoshida, B., Vandenbroeck, P. (2018). Psychology Today.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-five-percent/201802/the-science-sustaining-peace
Understanding Peace to Build Peace and Understanding: TC’s Peter T. Coleman is leading a Manhattan Project-like effort to understand how peaceful societies get and stay that way.
Levine, J. (2018). Teachers College Newsroom
tc.columbia.edu/articles/2018/march/understanding-peace-to-build-peace-and-understanding
Identifying What Makes Peace Sustainable: Q&A with the AC4 team at Columbia University.
Ashraf, S. (2018). IPI Global Observatory.
theglobalobservatory.org/2018/01/ac4-columbia-sustainable-peace
What Does Empirical Research Tell Us about Sustaining Peace?
International Peace Institute (2017). International Peace Institute.
Realizing Sustainable Peace: Expert survey report
Mazzaro, K., Coleman, P.T., Fisher-Yoshida, B., Fisher, J., Fry, D.P., Liebovitch, L.S., Ortiz, S., Aguilar, D., & Vandenbroeck, P. (2015). The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity.
A vision for peace in America
Coleman, P. T. (2015). Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today December 7, 2015.
huffingtonpost.com/peter-t-coleman-phd/a-vision-of-peace-for-ame_b_8743088.html
The beginning of peace?
Coleman, P. T. and Mazzaro, K. (2013). Editorial opinion published in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today November 27, 2013.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-five-percent/201311/the-beginning-peace
The Missing Piece in Sustainable Peace: What we need to make peace last
Coleman, P.T. (2012). Psychology Today.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-five-percent/201211/the-missing-piece-in-sustainable-peace
Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace
Fry, D. P. (2007). Oxford University press
Causal Loop Diagram
Here you can download a copy of our current causal loop diagram
Videos
Stories of Peace: After the oil spill
The Sustaining Peace Project seeks to learn from societies that have managed to sustain peace for decades, such as Mauritius. Teenaotee discusses a recent response to an oil spill by the island. Film by Nikhil Shibnauth.
Stories of Peace: Moving past political divides
What does it take to live in peace? The Sustaining Peace Project is learning with countries which have sustained peace for decades, such as Mauritius, and seeking stories of everyday peace. Shrishty tells a story of moving past political divides. Film by Nikhil Shibnauth
Talks
Sustainably Peaceful Societies
Peter Coleman, Invited Keynote for the International Congress of Psychology in Prague, July 2024.
If Peace Could Speak
Coleman, P. T., Liebovitch, L. S. Invited High Level Talk for PeaceCon 2024 at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (2024)
Peacebuilding and sustaining peace through complexity and systems theory
Coleman, P. T. (2018, June). Invited paper presented at the Processes of International Negotiation Program at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, Germany.
The science of sustaining peace: Actionable lessons from the Columbia University Human Peace Project
Coleman, P. T. (2018, May). Keynote presentation given at NAFSA: Association of International Educators Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
The science of sustaining peace
Coleman, P. T. (2018, March). Presented at the AC4 Sustaining Peace Forum in New York, NY.
The science of sustaining peace
Coleman, P. T. (2018, March). Presented at the International Peace Institute’s (IPI) Sustaining Peace in Practice: Evidence, Measurement, and Indicators Forum in New York, NY.
ipinst.org/2018/03/sustaining-peace-in-practice-evidence-measurement-and-indicators
