Daniel Friedman is the Program Director of Halving Global Violence at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) on the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies team. The team seeks to better understand the ways various forms violence manifest, as well as to identify evidence-based solutions to reduce and prevent it. They manage the Halving Global Violence Task Force, comprised of high-level government and international organization officials and violence reduction practitioners, as well as the  and co-facilitate the Peace in Our Cities network, which bring together civil society leaders, mayors, grassroots peacebuilders, and violence reduction experts from across regions to advance violence reduction initiatives.

Previously, Daniel worked on a range of violence prevention and international development efforts with the US government. This experience included nearly a decade with the Department of State’s Bureau for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, where he helped manage US government efforts to promote peace, prevent conflict, and reduce violence in more than a dozen countries.

Daniel also served as Managing Director for External and Government Affairs at the Inter-American Foundation, an independent US government agency that advances grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean. He was a Foreign Policy Fellow in the US Senate, covering a range of issues related to peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and as a detailee to the United Nations at the International Labour Organization (ILO). He has also worked for several non-governmental and educational organizations in the United States and Latin America.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.