STRATEGIKON

TOPICS

1. Network analysis to understand complex structures within security organizations and between armed, terrorist, criminal and peacekeeping groups. Organization, management and affairs of security, intelligence and investigation agencies and services, in complex environment.

2. Systemic approaches to cybersecurity, but also to cognitive warfare, disinformation, fake news, influence by foreign states, hybrid warfare.

3. Application of models and simulations to plan and evaluate defence strategies and peace interventions. Distribution and scale of armed conflicts, low intensity conflicts, asymmetrical and terrorist attacks, operations other than war, peace building and peace keeping, separatism, insurgency and guerrilla. Analysis of land, maritime, air, space, cyber and cognitive domains.

4. Study of the dynamics of conflict and cooperation also in relation to military strategy, international war relations, strategic studies, peace sciences, international studies, internal and international security.

5. Crisis Management and Humanitarian Response: using complex systems theory to optimize emergency response, crisis management and humanitarian operations; how complex systems theory can inform and improve peacebuilding strategies.

6. Insight into strategies to increase the resilience of communities and systems in the face of natural disasters, terrorist attacks and other security threats, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and continuous learning. Analysis of the construction of thought and reasoning about intelligence, security and investigations, and of their bias.

7. Defence Economics and Complex Systems: Analysis of the impact of complex economic systems on defence, security and peace development.

8. Analysis of ethical and legal issues related to the application of complex systems theory in defence and security, including accountability in algorithmic decisions and the use of drones.

9. Everything else about peace, defence and security with methods of complex system.

COMMITTEE

CALL FOR ABSTRACT

If you are interested in presenting your work relating to the topics of defence, security and peace, treated according to the methods of complex systems theory, send an abstract to the e-mail address strategikonccs@gmail.com, using the template for submission of abstracts to the 2024 CCS, or the one used for the 2022 and 2023 CCS, according to the following timing:

1st Submission Deadline (to consent early registration to CCS 2024): 16th June

1st Submission Notification of Acceptance: 30th June

2nd Submission Deadline: TBA (Subject to the results of the first call, which will have priority)

We remind you that in order to present the work, the speaker must be registered with the CCS 2024 (or the satellite only, via CCS). Please refer to the CCS 2024 website for further information.

INVITED SPEAKERS

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PROGRAMME

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For any information: strategikonccs@gmail.com