Rebuilding War-Torn Societies

The Peace Through Reconstruction conference, presented by Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society and the Earth Institute, featured four panels on economic and policy guidelines as well as investment and community-based reconstruction strategies.

Participants in the conference from Columbia included Edmund Phelps, the McVickar Professor of Political Economy and the 2006 Nobel laureate in economics; Jeffrey Sachs, professor of sustainable development and director of the Earth Institute; and Glenn Hubbard, professor of finance and economics and dean of the Columbia Business School.