International Project on Conflict and Complexity (IPCC)
Overview: is an interdisciplinary consortium of peace and conflict scholars and practitioners from anthropology, psychology, international relations, physics, and complexity science, funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, working to generate new insights and methods for addressing difficult, unresolved issues in the areas of violence prevention, conflict resolution, and sustainable peace. It supports a variety of innovative, inter-disciplinary, scholar-practitioner activities. The project is currently being conducted by a multidisciplinary research team consisting of 1) a specialist in the study of intractable conflict (Peter T. Coleman); 2) two social psychologists with expertise in the application of dynamical systems to cognitive, interpersonal, group, and societal phenomena (Andrzej Nowak and Robin Vallacher); 3) a physicist with expertise in formal descriptions and the modeling of system dynamics (Larry Liebovitch); 4) a social anthropologist (and practitioner) who specializes in international conflict and genocide prevention (Andrea Bartoli), and an extraordinarily talented group of PhD students (Lan Bui-Wrzosinska, Naira Musallam, Katharina Kugler, Christine Chung).Publications from this project
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Liebovitch, L. S., Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., Coleman, P. T., Bartoli, A., &Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2011). Mathematical models of the dynamics of conflict. In A. W. Davidson & M. A. Ray (Eds.), Nursing, caring and complexity science: for human-environment well-being. … Continue reading →
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Coleman, P. T., Schneider, A., James, C. C. F., Adams, D. S., Gameros, T. A., Hammons, L. R., Orji, C. C., Waugh. R. M., & Wicker, R. F. (2005). Intragroup subgroup attitude clustering, external intervention, and intergroup interaction patterns: Toward … Continue reading →
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Liebovitch, L. S., Vallacher, R., Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosinska, and Coleman, Peter, T. (2008). Dynamics of two-actor cooperation-competition conflict models. Physica A. Abstract We present a nonlinear ordinary differential equation model of the conflict between two actors, who could be individuals, … Continue reading →