Ervin Staub Editor & Author

Ervin Staub has taught at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He studied the influences that lead caring, helping, altruism in adults and children, the origins of genocide and other mass violence, the prevention of violence between groups and reconcliation after violence. He published extensively on these topics. He has also worked in many real world settings, on projects ranging from reconciliation and the prevention of new violence in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo, to reducing the use of unnecessary force by police, to creating caring classrooms.