Emile
Bruneau,
Ph.D., is a researcher and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication
at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his formal training in
neuroscience, Bruneau worked, traveled, and lived in a number of conflict
regions: South Africa during the transition from apartheid to democracy, Sri
Lanka during one of the largest Tamil Tiger strikes in that nation's history,
Ireland during "The Troubles," and Israel/Palestine around the Second
Intifada. Bruneau is now working to bring the tools of science to bear on the
problem of intergroup conflict by characterizing the (often unconscious) cognitive
biases that drive conflict, and critically evaluating efforts aimed at
transcending these biases. In 2015, he received a Bok Center Award for teaching
at Harvard and was honored with the Ed
Cairns Early Career Award in Peace Psychology. His work has received funding
from the UN, US Institute for Peace, Soros Foundation, DARPA, ONR, and DRAPER
Laboratories.Bruneau received his
doctorate from the University of Michigan
