Fund (university) students to live in the other country in a host family: between US-China, Russia-US, China-India, potentially India-Pakistan. This is important if one thinks that personal experience make it less likely that individuals incentivise or encourage escalation, war and certain competitive dynamics.
This might have a hard time meeting the same effectiveness bar as #13, “Talent Search” and #17, “Advocacy for US High-Skill Immigration”, which might end up having some similar effects but seem like more leveraged interventions.
I disagree, as this idea seems much more explicitly targeted at reducing the potential for great power conflict, and I haven’t yet seen many other tractable ideas in that domain.
Massive US-China exchange programme
Great power conflict, AI
Fund (university) students to live in the other country in a host family: between US-China, Russia-US, China-India, potentially India-Pakistan. This is important if one thinks that personal experience make it less likely that individuals incentivise or encourage escalation, war and certain competitive dynamics.
This might have a hard time meeting the same effectiveness bar as #13, “Talent Search” and #17, “Advocacy for US High-Skill Immigration”, which might end up having some similar effects but seem like more leveraged interventions.
I disagree, as this idea seems much more explicitly targeted at reducing the potential for great power conflict, and I haven’t yet seen many other tractable ideas in that domain.
My understanding is the Erasmus Programme was explicitly started in part to reduce the chance of conflict between European states.