Professor Coleman presented about the science of sustaining peace and type of peace. He talked about challenges that the world is facing but not adequately dealing with. So, in the Science of Sustaining Peace model, they focus on pillars and indicators that can be measured and study its correlations with each and everything else in a community.  These indicators have an impact of peacefulness. But they have different kinds of impacts, some of them mitigate peace and others drive. They have different weights; some of them really matter like gender inequality and others less so. And it’s different from a state to state or a community to another. And the level of peacefulness interaction with these things and to affect their relevance, and they all affect each other.

So, the Science of Sustaining Peace model is a multidisciplinary approach that takes into account the complexity of systems and seeks to include the local voices. It looks into the science and the interrelationships of different indicators. Then, the astrophysicist takes this understanding and translates it into a mathematical equation. Ultimately, it will give some sense of probability. There is a probability in this particular system for things being not right and negative peace or if things are moving into more sustainable, peaceful relationships. It will give a little bit more of sophisticated understanding of how these things may interact generally. If this system evolves, it might show what will a certain investment in an area do over time and identify its consequences.