IPA’s Peace & Recovery Program (P&R) supports field experiments and related research in several broad areas:

• Reducing violence and promoting peace
• Reducing "fragility" (i.e. fostering state capability and institutions of decision-making)
• Preventing, coping with, and recovering from crises (focusing on conflict, but also including non-conflict humanitarian crises such as COVID-19)

The program prioritizes studies that develop, illustrate, or test fundamental theories of peace, violence, and recovery, especially those that challenge common beliefs, pioneer innovative interventions, and produce evidence where little currently exists. Topics of study include forced displacement; peacebuilding; terrorism; state-supported violence and repression; ethnic and sectarian violence; protests and other collective action; and crisis prevention, response, and recovery. More >>