Thursday 30th – Friday 31st August 2012
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Final Call for Contributions
‘Global Crises: Exploring the Systems Perspective’
Keynotes Speakers:
Professor Edward Borodzicz, University of Portsmouth, UK
Risk: Developing
standards for non-standard events
and
Professor Gerald Midgley, University of Hull, UK
Featuring a workshop with Dr Dario Leslie, Head of UK
Ministry of Defence Cyber and Influence Science and Technology Centre
Global crises span a wide
breadth of possible eventualities such as climate change, conflict between
nations, increased cyber threats, financial instability, pandemics, reduced
access to natural resources right through to existential risks that could
threaten humankind as a whole and have adverse consequences for the course of
human civilization or planet Earth.
Some of
these crises are current issues whilst others represent a growing risk or
potential global shocks. Various risks exist for humanity, but
not all are equal. Bostrum illustrates this well through his concept of
existential risk, categorizing them by scope (personal, local, global,
trans-generational) and severity (imperceptible, endurable, or terminal).
Responding to global crises effectively requires a holistic systems thinking
approach to the very real issues that exist today and for planning for the
potential realization of future risks. This conference aims to focus on how
systems thinking, systems concepts and systems methods can be and are being applied
to cope with current global crises or to address future ones.
Full papers are invited addressing the conference theme and reports of
on-going developments in systems research and practice. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed (in respect of academic works) or editorially reviewed (in
respect of accounts of Systems practice). Papers will be available in
electronic format during the conference, and a small group of high-quality
papers will be selected for an edition of the Systemist, to be published following the conference. Eligibility
for publication in this special issue will depend upon at least one of the
authors registering for and attending the Conference.
Presentations are also invited, either to accompany a Full Paper or as an
independent contribution (from an extended abstract).
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