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		<title>The Humanitarian Groundhog Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanitarian coordination has been described in a new ODI paper as a &#8216;wicked problem&#8217; which demands new and radical solutions. This post explores the  longstanding incentive issues underlying the lack of effective coordination and suggests possible ways forward. In a paper published last year,  Michael Barnett and I argued that the humanitarian system was stuck in much the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=1879&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To build peace, first understand the dynamics of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating 7 minute TED talk by Sean Gourley.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=1585&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An interview on complexity and aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Because of our urgency to end poverty, we act as if development is a construction, a matter of planning and engineering, rather the complex and often opaque set of interactions that we know it to be&#8230; This is a excerpt from a recent interview I gave to Dennis Whittle (former CEO of Global Giving). Click [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=1627&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Benoit Mandelbrot &#8211; A True Philosopher Prophet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.&#8221;   Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010 Benoit Mandelbrot, one of the most influential and original mathematicians of the past century, died last Thursday aged 85. Mandelbrot&#8217;s contribution to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=1281&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former USAID Afghanistan Chief looks to Complexity Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most interesting story this week for anyone interested in complexity and aid  issues is the news that Bill Frej, head of the United States Agency for International Development&#8217;s mission to Afghanistan from May 2009 until June 2010, will be the first &#8216;development diplomat in residence&#8217; at the Santa Fe Institute, the leading global think-tank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=1240&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History on the edge of chaos</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/09/14/history-on-the-edge-of-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, renowned historian Niall Ferguson authored a piece in Foreign Affairs which presented human civilisations as complex adaptive systems, in contrast with the traditional view of civilisations as moving through a gradual cyclical of growth and decline. As Ferguson argues, the cyclical model of civilisations has been long shared by historians, political theorists, anthropologists, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=1012&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IMPROV-ing Aid Through Creative Rigour</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/09/07/improv-ing-aid-through-creative-rigour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lessons from theatrical improvisation have clear parallels with group dynamics in other social systems, including aid agencies&#8230; Outside of work, theatre is one of my main passions. In my tentative attempts to learn more about different aspects of stagecraft, I have stumbled across some fascinating thinking which is of real relevance for Aid on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=991&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What brain scientists can tell us about learning in aid agencies</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/08/13/what-brain-scientists-can-tell-us-about-learning-in-aid-agencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to 2008 ALNAP research on organisational change in the humanitarian sector, &#8217;all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that lead us to see, understand, and manage organisations in distinctive yet partial ways.&#8217; One of the key metaphors used in that work, drawing on the groundbreaking efforts of organisational theorist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=830&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity, crises and moving beyond recipes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/08/06/complexity-crises-and-moving-beyond-recipes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The argument that modern organisations have to deal with complexity on a daily basis is fast becoming one of the least controversial statements any analyst, policy maker or practitioner can make. But what this actually means in practice is up for debate. Some suggest that there is little or no rigour in statements such as &#8216;the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=815&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gazing at the fingerprints of chaos in the UK elections</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/05/10/gazing-at-the-fingerprints-of-chaos-in-the-uk-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 08:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of the 19th century, one of the most widely publicised scientific struggles was to predict the motion of planetary bodies. Using Newtonian mechanics, it was simple enough to calculate the trajectory of one or two planets. However, when a third was added into the mix, the equations become complex and incomprehensible. Steven Strogatz described [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&amp;blog=10132762&amp;post=740&amp;subd=aidontheedge&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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