Complex Systems Group (CSG)
JUSTIFICATION AND RATIONALE
Complex systems and its many embodiments: systems analysis, complexity science, systems thinking, etc. emerges as a scientific paradigm to address non-trivial and wicked questions beyond the corsets set by the positivistic and reductionistic thinking and doing.
A complex system is defined as one composed of numerous components with numerous types of relationships, and exhibiting different/more properties than the ones that each component shows individually., definition that suits most social, ecological and social-ecological phenomena, which are integral part of the research agenda of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn and the Institute for Environmental Sciences (iES), University of Kaiserlslautern-Landau.
Both, active supporters of this initiative.
MANDATE
- to contribute to disseminate approaches, frameworks and methods of complexity and systems science
- to become a platform for extension, communication and exchange among academics, practitioners and beyond
- to become a hub for networking, alliances and the underpinning of further initiatives, i.e., mentoring, diffusion and research
- Altogether, to contribute to address (complex) real-world problems via systemic approaches
The CGS does not aim to become an autonomous instance, but a node of extension, communication and exchange among academics of different profiles, working in the founding institutes and universities, and beyond.
