PEACE INNOVATION LAB AT STANFORD
Designing measurable positive peace.
We develop behavioral frameworks, data standards, and applied methods that help institutions design for trust, cooperation, resilience, and mutual benefit across difference boundaries.
Our Approach
Peace is a system capability. We provide the frameworks and tools to build it.
The Nelson
Engagement Framework
Understand how engagement moves from contact to cooperation and collaboration.
The Peace
Canvas
Translate trust, dignity, resilience, and cooperation into observable behaviors and interventions.
The Peace
Data Standard
Identify and structure evidence of positive engagement over time.
From broad aspiration to testable intervention.
The Peace Canvas helps teams move from values to action. It translates system-level goals into measurable behaviors, interventions, and indicators—so progress can be tested and learning can compound.
Design
Select levers, behaviors, and interventions.
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Test
Measure change, learn, and adapt.
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Diagnose
Map the system, relationships, and gaps.
Applied Research
Built through field experiments, not theory alone.
PeaceDot / peace.facebook
Platform-scale experiments to understand and improve online engagement across difference boundaries.
Manor Labs
Behavioral and organizational experiments inside institutions to strengthen cooperation and implementation.
Cloud to Street
A collaboration with Egyptian democracy activists, Stanford students, and Silicon Valley innovators during the Arab Spring.
Current focus: AI and strategic foresight
Applying AI, systems analysis, and scenario modeling to anticipate disruption, map dependencies, and strengthen institutional resilience.
Collaborate
Build the conditions for durable cooperation.
Research and institutional collaboration
Partner on research, data standards, and tools.
Co-develop frameworks and field experiments.
Advance the science and practice of peace.
Organizational programs
Teams working together to strengthen leadership, culture, and organizational systems.