Mike Findley

Michael G. Findley

Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Government
The University of Texas at Austin

My work asks whether the tools meant to manage conflict actually work — pressure, persuasion, and stabilization — and turns security, conflict, and peace into questions of evidence, answered with field experiments, computational models, and fieldwork.

Research umbrella: Security, Conflict, & Peace Evidence
Pressure Persuasion Stabilization Dynamics
Methodology

I publish in Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, AJPS, International Organization, Management Science, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Cambridge University Press. Fieldwork in Colombia, DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, the Bahamas, and elsewhere.

Professor (by courtesy) at McCombs and LBJ · Co-director, IPD · Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar · EGAP member · President, Evaluasi

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Department of Government · The University of Texas at Austin
3.102 Batts, Austin, TX 78712
mikefindley@utexas.edu