SGS 2015 - Fall conference satellite on Global Security

It has been nearly 20 years since the U.S. National Defense University and the RAND Corporation organized a ground breaking conference titled Complexity, Global Politics and National Security. The years since have seen tremendous advances in network analysis, graph theory, computational social science, and other theoretical aspects of complex systems. At the same time, exponential growth in computational power has led to novel methods of modelling, simulation, and analysis of complex systems. We seek to build upon the vision presented 20 years ago and to highlight how these numerous advances in complex systems theory and methods have enhanced our understanding of global security issues and our ability to address those issues. These issues share much with novel scientific fields, such as sustainability, and include emerging security issues such as urbanization and the rise of megacities.
For these reasons the 2015 European Conference on Complex Systems will include a satellite session for scientists, scholars, and practitioners addressing global security as a complex network of causality and nonlinear feedbacks. Participants will explore both proximate and ultimate drivers of social and political instability, including (but not limited to) such phenomena as:
? climate change
? food system disruption
? geopolitical conflict
? trade networks
? altered migratory patterns
? water scarcity
? the modelling and visualization of these driver