The Emotional Brain: The Science and Anthropology of Aggression 2013 Skoll World Forum

Understanding how we think and behave can provide critical insights for social entrepreneurs who rely on individual and group behaviour change for success. We will explore how aggression can spread from a one-on-one encounter to encompass entire groups, often resulting in warfare, genocide or violence against women or children. Join a neuroscientist, primatologist, psychiatrist and anthropologist, for a groundbreaking journey from the most basic research in mice and flies, to human psycho-social constructs, to real world strategies of entrepreneurs on the frontlines.

SARAH CADDICK
PRINCIPAL NEUROSCIENCE ADVISER TO LORD SAINSBURY OF TURVILLE, THE GATSBY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Sarah J Caddick, PhD, is Neuroscience Advisor to Lord Sainsbury of Turville and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. She serves on a number of scientific boards including the Science Museum, London, the Aston Centere for Brain Science and the Centre for Biological Sciences at Southampton University. She is a Governor/Trustee of MQ: Transforming Mental Health and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. She was a guest curator for TED Global in 2012.

JOHN MITANI
PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
John Mitani is the James N. Spuhler Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is a primate behavioural ecologist who investigates the behaviour of our closest living relatives, the apes. During the past 34 years, he has conducted fieldwork on the behaviour of all five kinds of apes: gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees. His current research involves studies of an extremely large community of wild chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda.

BRIAN FERGUSON
PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-NEWARK
R. Brian Ferguson is a cultural/historical anthropologist who has studied war for three decades. His publications analyse war among tribal peoples, ancient states, in the early archaeological record, recent identity-linked conflicts, and counterinsurgency. His goal has been to develop a unified theoretical approach that applies across contexts. Two other interests are the origins of organised crime and the development of policing in New York City. He directs the graduate programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.

SIMON WESSELY
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Simon Wessely is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine and Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He has a Doctorate in Epidemiology and has over 600 original publications, with an emphasis on the boundaries of medicine and psychiatry, unexplained symptoms and syndromes, population reactions to adversity and epidemiology. He has co-authored books on chronic fatigue syndrome, randomised controlled trials and a history of military psychiatry.

DAVID ANDERSON
PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, INVESTIGATOR, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
David J. Anderson, PhD, is Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology at Caltech and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His laboratory studies the neural circuitry of emotional behaviours in both mice and fruit flies. Dr. Anderson received his AB at Harvard and PhD at Rockefeller University where he trained with Nobelist Günter Blobel. Following postdoctoral studies at Columbia University with Nobelist Richard Axel, Dr. Anderson joined the Caltech faculty in 1986. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

TADDY BLECHER
CEO, COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
Dr. Taddy Blecher is Chairperson of the South African National Government task team on Entrepreneurship, Education and Job Creation, and CEO of the Maharishi Institute and the Community and Individual Development Association. He is known as a pioneer of the free tertiary education movement in South Africa, having helped to create six free access institutions of higher learning. He is Co-Founder of the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson. In 2009, he was named by author Tom Peters as one of the top five most influential entrepreneurs in the world over the last 30 years.

QURATULAIN AIN BAKHTEARI
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, THE INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND PRACTICES
Dr. Quratulain Bakhteari has over 30 years of experience in community organization. Her pioneering work in Pakistan has mobilized people for education, sanitation, women empowerment and professional development. Since 1998, she has focused her energies in creating spaces for young people and The Institute for Development Studies and Practices (IDSP-Pakistan) serves as a space for young people to learn, reflect and practice community development. She was a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006 and was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.