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IJAHP News and Events: Vargas/IC4CR wins award from National Collaborative on Gun 

Violence research 

 

 
 
 

International Journal of the 

Analytic Hierarchy Process 

407 Vol. 13 Issue 2 2021 

ISSN 1936-6744 

https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.911 

International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) wins award from 

the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research 

      
Luis G. Vargas 

Professor Business Analytics and Operations 

The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business 

University of Pittsburgh 

Pittsburgh, PA 15260 

LGVARGAS@pitt.edu 

The International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) won a $30,000 grant award, 

given by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR), to develop a 

method to estimate the harms and benefits that gun policy and violence prevention 

interventions have on legal users of firearms. The International Journal of the Analytic 

Hierarchy Process (IJAHP) is honored to publish the report titled “An Analytic Network 

Model (ANP) to Estimate the Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks (BOCR) that Gun 

Policies and Violence Prevention Interventions have on Legal Users of Firearms” 

authored by Professors Amos N. Guiora, Marcel C. Minutolo and Luis G. Vargas, in this 

issue. Furthermore, the authors are close to securing a contract to write a book about the 

implementation of their proposal. They are in the process of developing a questionnaire 

to acquire judgments from gun owners about 13 major laws. 

The International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) was created by University of 

Pittsburgh professors Luis Vargas (IJAHP senior editor) and Jerry Zoffer (Dean Emeritus) 

and housed in the Katz Graduate School of Business. The mission of IC4CR is to provide 

decision makers with an in-depth understanding of the negotiating positions of all parties 

and recommend implementation guidelines, based on preferences and priorities, to 

facilitate resolution of otherwise intractable conflicts. 
 

 
 

https://www.ncgvr.org/
https://business.pitt.edu/centers-and-initiatives/katz-international-center-for-conflict-resolution/