by Dan Brown in Nature, March 11, 2015
Source: Jones, D. (2015). Conflict resolution: Wars without end. Nature, 519(7542), 148-150. doi:10.1038/519148a
Viewing intractable conflict as dynamic, complex systems resistant to change through traditional cause and effect planning processes received some visibility from author Dan Brown in an article in Nature’s March 12, 2015 issue. In sharing the need for a ‘fresh approach,’ the author gives a nod to the Innovation Lab and several Lab members including Rob Ricigliano, Peter Coleman and Andrea Bartoli as well as other colleagues working in this area including Continue reading
I have been developing quantitative mathematical models based on the causal loops diagrams from the 
(attractor) of the system. These models have properties typical of complex systems such as attractors and dependency on initial conditions. Future steps will be to determine how the values of the variables can be measured. A preliminary version of those results was presented at the Bloomberg Data for Social Good Conference. Please go to 
Expanding his work detailed in The Five Percent, Peter has outlined a Dynamical Systems Theory of Practice that incorporates the theoretical basis of applying complexity science to intractable conflict. In a pending paper Peter explains that the DSToP assumes the following:
In 2013, Stephen Gray and Josefine Roos in collaboration with Danny