[Editor’s note: This post was written by Dr. Derek B. Miller, Director of The Policy Lab, and Lisa Rudnick, Head of the International Peace Advisory Team at Interpeace. Together they ran a series of initiatives at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research between 2006 and 2015 on generating socio-cultural knowledge for use in programming and policymaking; and building new methods for Evidence-Based Programme Design to bring knowledge into the design of action.] Political syst