Timothy Clancy

Author Page for Timothy Clancy :: SSRN

In the Complexity Explorers (SFI) group on Facebook, Tim Clancy posted this (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2156854757698450/?multi_permalinks=5456539021063324):

The dissertation may be of technical interest to folks in this community because it touches on a lot of aspects we’ve discussed over the years related to complex systems including determining causality, depicting via simulation, modeling, policy analysis and selection, counterfactuals.

From a domain standpoint the dissertation is organized based on the diagram and individual chapters are available below:

Chp1: Profiles of Violent Radicalization doi:10.2139/ssrn.3957928

Chp2: Root Causes of Violent Radicalization doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3957919

Chapter 3: Contingences of Violent Radicalization doi: 10.3390/systems9040090

Chp4: Countering Violent Radicalization doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3990014

Chp5: Emerging State Actor Hypothesis ISIS Case doi: 10.3390/systems6020016

Chp6: Application of Emerging State Actor Hypothesis ISIS Case doi: 10.3390/systems6020017

Peace Tech

Sustaining Peace Project

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SCiO UK

SCiO UK Virtual Development Event – April 2022

Tue 26 April 2022 19:00–21:09 GMT+1
SCiO’s Development Days offer an opportunity to draw upon the collective expertise of SCiO members in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. By taking Development Events online, using the Zoom meeting platform, we aim to make them accessible to more SCiO members.
This will be a ‘special’ Development event with the subject “Professional development, certification and systems practice” led by Tony Korycki.
Development Events are both for members who are just starting out on a journey to explore Systems Thinking approaches, and for those who have many years of exploration and practice.

Members only; FREE; Online event; English; Book now

SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – May 2022

Mon 16 May 2022 18:30–20:30 GMT+1

Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems & Complexity in Organisation’s members and others. SCiO organises Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks, hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. This virtual session will be held on Zoom, the details of which will be confirmed nearer the time.

Systems Thinking and Adult Development in a Community Development Setting – Esther Hall

How do we transform a zombie organisation into a conscious collective? – Stephen J Brewis

All welcome; FREE; Online event; English; Book now

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SCiO Belgium

SCiO Belgium – VSM deep dive sessie 3

Tue 26 April 2022 18:00–20:30 CET+1
SCiO Belgium SCiO is een netwerk van professionals in organisatie ontwikkeling en organisatie design, binnen en buiten het bedrijfsleven. De centrale doelstellingen zijn (1) het ontwikkelen van systeem praktijken, (2) kennis delen en schalen, (3) voorzien van ondersteuning. Deze sessie zal doorgaan van 19 tot 21u30. Details zullen gedeeld worden kort voor het event bij inschrijving. Gedurende 4 sessies zullen we een ‘deep dive’ nemen in het VSM. Meer info volgt snel (op deze link).

Kon. Astridlaan 144, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium – Members only, FREE, Dutch; Book now

SCiO Belgium – spreker sessie mei 2022 – Philippe Bailleur

Tue 31 May 2022 18:00–20:30 CET+1

SCiO Belgium SCiO is een netwerk van professionals in organisatie ontwikkeling en organisatie design, binnen en buiten het bedrijfsleven. De centrale doelstellingen zijn (1) het ontwikkelen van systeem praktijken, (2) kennis delen en schalen, (3) voorzien van ondersteuning. Deze sessie zal doorgaan van 19 tot 21u30. Details zullen gedeeld worden kort voor het event bij inschrijving. Gedurende 4 sessies zullen we een ‘deep dive’ nemen in het VSM. Meer info volgt snel (op deze link)…. Read more

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SCiO DACH (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz)

SCiO DACH – Person of interest: Stafford Beer

Thu 14 April 2022 19:00–20:30 CET+1

Vorstellung von Leben und Werk des Stafford Beer, dem Begründer der Managementkybernetik durch Carola Roll.
Der Termin gibt einen Überblick über den Werdegang sowie das umfangreiche Werk von Stafford Beer in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen (VSM, aber auch Poesie, Malerei, usw.).
In Grundzügen wird auch auf sein wichtigstes Werk, das VSM, und dessen Einfluss eingegangen.
Nach der Präsentation besteht die Möglichkeit zum allgemeinen Austausch.

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SCiO DACH Camp in Aalen

Fri 17 June 2022 17:00 – Sat 18 June 2022 17:30 CET+1

Veranstaltung zu aktuellen Themen und Praxisbeispielen aus dem Bereich des System Thinking und der Managmentkybernetik. ● Get-together bei gemeinsamen Abendessen am Vorabend. ● Präsentation “System Laws”: allgemeine Beschreibung der “System Laws”, Aufgaben, Ziele und Charakteristika sowie mögliche Anwendungen gefolgt von einer offenen Diskussion im Anschluss. ● Bar Camp: Teilgeber können eigene Temen bzw. Vorträge präsentieren. Das Thema sollte sich an Systemansätzen und an deren praktischer Nutzung orientieren und so weit möglich Fragestellungen/Übungen für die anderen Teilnehmer beinhalten.

Karlstraße 4, 73433 Aalen, Germany; All welcome; 99-149 Euro, German Book now

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SCiO Espana

systems Thinking y constelaciones familiares

Tue 26 April 2022 19:00–21:00 CET+1

presentation by Luis Dorrego details to follow

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SCiO Nederland

SCIO-NL April 2022 live meeting (in Dutch)

Fri 8 April 2022 11:00–16:00 CET+1

In het 2w kwartaal van 2022 gaan we als leden van SCIO-NL onderling in gesprek om helderder te krijgen wat we als leden van de vereniging verwachten en zouden willen krijgen.

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SCIO-NL May 2022 live meeting (in Dutch)

Fri 13 May 2022 11:00–16:00 CET+1

In het 2w kwartaal van 2022 gaan we als leden van SCIO-NL onderling in gesprek om helderder te krijgen wat we als leden van de vereniging verwachten en zouden willen krijgen.

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Two young mathematicians have astonished their colleagues with a full proof of the Kahn-Kalai conjecture — a sweeping statement about how structure emerges in random sets and graphs.

Elegant Six-Page Proof Reveals the Emergence of Random Structure | Quanta Magazine

Rajneesh Chowdhury, Ph.D.

Happy to share my latest research paper in the Systemist (the official journal of the UK Systems Society), titled, “Applying VSM, SSM, and SAST for problem-structuring and problem-solving in health systems”. (Cover date Winter, 2021).ABSTRACTSystems thinking can lend a powerful perspective for problem-structuring and problem-solving in health systems. They can serve to articulate assumptions rooted in mental models and individual values and help in facilitating convergence of viewpoints between differing stakeholders in an inclusive and participative manner. This paper presents a case-study where three systems methodologies – VSM, SSM and SAST – were used sequentially in the UK NHS to bring about value-based consensus between managers and clinicians overcoming legacy differences. The discussions highlight the contribution systems methodologies can make in unearthing causes of organisational dissonance, misaligned priorities, and deep-rooted conflict, and how the same can be resolved by working towards a higher-order stakeholder convergence through application of certain methodologies creatively and flexibly. Discussions presented emphasise on the importance of problem-structuring as an essential step before problem-solving. It is also argued that the former needs to flow through an intervention as an iterative process and that problem-structuring should not be regarded as a one-time activity. Learnings presented in this paper can be of equal value for systems and healthcare researchers and practitioners. The intervention can be located within the ambit of Holistic Flexibility, a recently introduced conceptual lens in systems thinking.

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Reconceiving the Digital Network: From Cells to Selves

Mark William Johnson, Elizabeth Maitland, John Torday & Sebastian H. D. Fiedler 

Chapter

First Online: 22 April 2022

Part of the Postdigital Science and Education book series (PSE)

Abstract

The concept of the postdigital and current conceptions of the biodigital stem from an understanding of computer networks which itself has a history deriving from biology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This chapter traces the historical development of modern conceptions of ‘network’ from Rashevsky, to McCulloch and Pitts, through to the creation of the Internet, and current thinking about neural networks and machine learning. In tracing this history, we question the soundness of some of the assumptions made about networked digital phenomena and their relation to biological and phenomenological processes. In contrast to the topological node-arc model of networks, we argue that networks arise from evolutionary biological processes which are fundamentally oriented around boundary preservation rather than ‘connection’. Cellular connections observed as networks can be seen as epiphenomena of these underlying processes, where for example, a cell will establish ‘connection’ as a means of maintaining its viability in an uncertain environment. Taking a boundary-preservation viewpoint allows for a homological analysis of similar processes from cells to selves. We illustrate two areas where this viewpoint might be operationalised: in communication dynamics and in institutional organisation. We argue this is a richer way of investigating biodigital phenomena, and opens the door to new technological experiments and alternative visions of a technological society.

Reconceiving the Digital Network: From Cells to Selves | SpringerLink

And if your budget can’t stretch to the book Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (though it sounds as fascinating as the title is long), also on Academia:

https://www.academia.edu/s/c926e3a742

Wednesday, April 20, 2022Constructing POSIWID

Demanding Change: Constructing POSIWID

Systemic resilience in economics

William Hynes, Benjamin D. Trump, Alan Kirman, Andrew Haldane & Igor Linkov 

Nature Physics volume 18, pages381–384 (2022)

We describe a framework for understanding the factors that underpin economic resilience, and identify the basic tools for implementing it. This principally involves examining resilience by design, which promotes endogenous reorganization in the economy, and by intervention, which includes exogenous measures such as bailouts, stockpiles and building buffers. We link these ideas to comparable notions from physics, such as the rich and non-trivial phenomenology that arises in circumstances when a system is dynamic and out of equilibrium. We contend that a more nuanced understanding of the underlying structure of our economic system could lead to more enlightened policy decisions that promote resilience and result in better outcomes in the long run.

Systemic resilience in economics | Nature Physics

The Climate GameCan you reach net zeroby 2050?See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change

The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero?

Two kinds of CAS: how did I miss this insight?

Two kinds of CAS: how did I miss this insight? | arthur~battram…

Gregory Bateson on deutero-learning and double bind: a brief conceptual historyMax Visser

Gregory Bateson on deutero-learning and double bind: a brief conceptual history – PubMed

Deutero-Learning in Organizations: A Review and a Reformulation

[PDF] Deutero-Learning in Organizations: A Review and a Reformulation | Semantic Scholar

CITIZEN JANE Jane Jacobs

CITIZEN JANE Jane Jacobs on Vimeo

h/t Rick Woodward, who posted this on LinkedIn after I posted this:

If you get the chance, you should watch Straight Line Crazy, the David Hare play about Robert Moses (and a bit about Jane Jacobs) – we just saw it in the first production last night in London (with Ralph Fiennes). An odd play without much action but very engaging and emotional, and so much to make you think about about leadership, complexity, planning, cars, roads, cities, organisation, and power.