Education creates peace: Evidence from school-building in Indonesia [1]

New research shows how a school-building programme in Indonesia successfully reduced conflict. Dominic Rohner of the University of Lausanne discusses this unanticipated peace dividend, and how CEPR's research and policy network on conflict reduction will help policymakers.

Editors' note: This interview first appeared on VoxEU.org [2].

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New research shows how a school-building programme in Indonesia successfully reduced conflict
Interviewee: 
dominicrohner0 [3]
Date Published: 
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Tags: 
Conflict [4]
violence [5]
education [6]
Indonesia [7]
schools [8]
school-building [9]
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Topic: 
Health & Education [10]
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