Empowering learning for just and peaceful societies

Empowering Learning for Just and Peaceful Societies

BLOG POST: Open Source your Analysis: Participatory Approaches to Systems Mapping

People living and working on complex systems, which is pretty much all of us, find ourselves baffled and inspired in equal measures by their unpredictable behavior. Complex systems, be they storm systems (environmental), the endocrine system (biological), or the dancefloor at your office Christmas party (social), can be impossible to predict, let alone control. As thinkers such as Easterly and Taleb argue, we should treat with great scepticism anyone who tells you that they can.