This is a linkpost for https://tryingtruly.substack.com/p/how-a-pinky-promise-stopped-a-war
While I don't know how one might operationalize the view, it does fit in to how I've begun to start framing the current world state. Basically we have a choice. We can all start looking for reason not to start/keep killing one another or keep on making reason that we need to kill others.
An incredible example of game theory's Generous Tit for Tat strategy being utilised in diplomacy during a real-world crisis - stopping a military escalation between Israel and Jordan in the eve of the 1990 Gulf War. Also includes some hilarious accounts from the King of Jordan himself (I can't figure out if he's aware of his comic timing or simply talking naturally).