A TRANSTEC-led Consortium (including CMI, HD Centre, WANEP and Transtec Africa) has been invited to submit a proposal to provide TA for the “EU Support to Ecowas regional peace, security and stability Mandate (EU-ECOWAS PSS)” Programme. Tentatively scheduled to start in January 2015, this will be a 4 years assignment involving 3 Long Term Key… read more
Today, the citizens of the United States face some very difficult moral choices. Should the U.S. government commit to spending billions conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria or stay out of the conflict and invest those dollars in our own education and transportation systems? Is Obamacare a constructive step forward in addressing our… read more
Inspired by the Dynamical Systems Theory Innovation Lab Hosted by Dr. Glenda Eoyang, Human Systems Dynamics Institute Interdisciplinary gatherings, like the DST Labs, are wonderful opportunities to build connections and find similarities among diverse fields. To complement the 2014 Lab, we want to provide deep dives into the differences among theories and methods. This webinar… read more
How might the U.S. collaborate with ISIS to stop the kidnapping and killing of hostages? Here is a link to a paper Andrea Bartoli and I wrote on “Dealing with Extremists.”* It lays out a menu of options for responding to extremist groups like ISIS. But here are two critical thoughts. First, it is always… read more
Job Description: Reporting to the Director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) the AC4 Assistant Director coordinates the general operations of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4). Duties and responsibilities include: 1) human resource coordination ; 2) budget monitoring and reconciliation; 3) coordinating financial transactions; 4) managing AC4’s… read more
Co-written with Robert Ferguson Weeks after a chorus of international outrage erupted over the annexing of Crimea and the downing of Malaysia Airline’s Flight 17 in pro-Russian rebel airspace in Ukraine and the death of 298 civilians, Russia is unapologetically sending new military convoys equipped with mobile artillery into “sovereign” Ukraine. With growing casualties on… read more
JWST G4610 Environment and Sustainability in Israel – Between the Local and the Regional Call Number: 91198 Points: 4 Day/Time: R 6:10pm-8:00pm Location: TBD Instructor: Shahar Sadeh Since the establishment of the state of Israel, and even prior to it, the land has been subject to massive spatial and demographic change. Rapid development, mass immigration waves, high rates of natural growth, conflicts and wars,… read more
If you’re wasting time always trying to keep the peace, you could be missing out on an important source of energy and innovation. By Gwen Moran Whether we like it or not, conflict is a constant in life. From big-picture decisions about the future to where to eat lunch, every day we have myriad differences… read more
Is social media the place where complexity about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes to die? It’s a paradox of sorts that over time, as protracted conflicts become objectively more complex – as more actors and issues become involved – they are experienced in an ever-simplified manner. Identities are polarized between righteous victims (us) and evil perpetrators… read more
Over the past decade, scholars and practitioners have been working to employ new insights and methods from complexity science, dynamical systems and network theory to study and address violence and conflict as well as sustainable peace and social change. The second Dynamical Systems Theory (DST) Innovation Lab convened from July 20 – 25, 2014 with… read more