Please note that this program ended on June 30, 2018 and the website is no longer being updated.

The Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence is an interdisciplinary research program headquartered at, and supported by the MacMillan Center. It straddles boundaries by fostering pioneering and rigorous theoretical and empirical research on human conflict in all its dimensions. It promotes innovative research on questions related to the rise and collapse of order, including the origins and consequences of polarization; the causes and consequences of the breakdown, emergence, and consolidation of local, national, or transnational political order; the determinants of strategies, types, and consequences of conflict; and the dynamics of its violent escalation and de-escalation. The Program encourages research, at both the micro and macro levels, that is question-driven, methodologically eclectic, and takes context seriously.

To achieve its aims, the Program offers residential pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships and organizes various activities, from lectures to workshops and conferences. Since its establishment in 2004, the Program has organized more than 150 talks and a dozen conferences and workshops; it has hosted more than twenty fellows and visiting scholars; and has nurtured tens of graduate and undergraduate student associates. Through its combined activities, the Program has helped to make Yale the preeminent site for cutting-edge research on questions related to order, conflict, and violence.