Visualizing Sustaining Peace
The project is employing models and methods from complexity science to study and visualize the dynamics of sustaining peaceful societies, and has been developing a comprehensive causal loop diagram. Developed through expert surveys and reviews of the literature, this diagram maps the empirical science related to sustaining peace. Causal loop diagrams help us to identify factors that influence peace, and the connections between them, serving as an interactive tool which can lead to new insights for peacebuilding and for mitigating the unintended consequences of well intended interventions.
Relevant Publications
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Coleman, P.T., Liebovitch, L.S., Fisher J. Taking Complex Systems Seriously: Visualizing and Modelling the Dynamics of Sustainable Peace. Global Policy Journal.
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Coleman, P. T., Fisher, J., Fry, D. P., Liebovitch, L. S., Chen-Carrel, A., & Souillac, G. (2020, November 12). How to Live in Peace? Mapping the Science of Sustaining Peace: A Progress Report. American Psychologist.
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Liebovitch, L. S., Coleman, P. T., & Fisher, J. (2019). Approaches to understanding sustainable peace: Qualitative causal loop diagrams and quantitative mathematical models Sage Publications. doi:10.1177/0002764219859618
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Mazzaro, K., Coleman, P.T., Fisher-Yoshida, B., Fisher, J., Fry, D.P., Liebovitch, L.S., Ortiz, S., Aguilar, D., & Vandenbroeck, P. (2015). Realizing Sustainable Peace: Expert survey report. New York: The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity.
