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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>
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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&blog=10132762&post=740&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons rising from the ash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1970s, systems thinker Russell Ackoff argued that some of the greatest problems happen when messy problems are dealt with as if they were simple puzzles. The true extent of interconnectedness and interdependence of the world we live in is ignored or downplayed until a crisis &#8211; i.e. when it is already too late. Time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=694&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Article on Making Sense of Complexity</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/05/02/new-york-times-article-on-making-sense-of-complexity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times Review has a nice piece  on &#8216;making sense of complexity&#8217; which cites the work of Brenda Zimmerman, noted complexity specialist whose work on health systems has featured on two previous Aid on the Edge posts (here and here). Here it is in full: The Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=731&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happens when you are busy making other plans</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/30/what-happens-when-you-are-busy-making-other-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Lennon famously quipped that life was what happened when you were busy making other plans. A new book Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice from the fantastic STEPS centre at the University of Sussex focuses on how much the same contradiction plays out in the global movements toward development, environmental sustainability and social justice. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=725&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powerpoint, complexity and the art of hypnotising chickens</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/27/powerpoint-complexity-and-the-art-of-hypnotising-chickens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in yesterday&#8217;s NY Times launches a scathing attack on the use of Powerpoint in the US military, and draws some interesting conclusions about how such tools can inhibit understanding of complexity. Exhibit A, below, is a now-infamous slide that is intended to represent the complexity of American military strategy in Afghanistan. As General Stanley A. McChrystal, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=715&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest in &#8220;aid net-oric&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/22/latest-in-aid-net-oric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent piece of work has led to the coining of the phrase &#8216;aid net-oric&#8217; (pron: net-er-ik) &#8211; a form of rhetoric which applies to exaggerated and bombastic use of the term &#8216;network&#8217; in the aid sector. Once you start looking, you can see potential examples of &#8216;aid net-oric&#8217; everywhere, from political manifestos to organisational [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=703&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity and Healthcare: Reformer, First Change Thyself</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/03/26/complexity-and-healthcare-reformer-change-thyself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest stories this week is that US President Barack Obama has signed a landmark healthcare bill into law &#8211; the largest expansion of the US federal social safety net since the 1960s. But work by leading healthcare analysts around the world would indicate that the safe passage of the bill is only the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=641&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From traffic management to development management?</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/02/22/from-traffic-management-to-development-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(2nd of 2 posts exploring  self-organisation and emergence in transport / traffic and the relevance for aid strategies &#8211; first was last week&#8217;s piece on slime moulds) Traffic planners are increasingly moving away from signs and regulations to increase traffic safety and address congestion. Rather than legislating for driver behaviour, they are requiring drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=578&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slime mould, simple rules and the politics of self-organisation</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/02/15/slime-mould-simple-rules-and-the-politics-of-self-organisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Copying nature’s ideas allows people to harness the power of evolution to come up with clever products. Now a group of researchers has taken this idea a step further by using an entire living organism—a slime mould—to solve a complex problem. In this case, the challenge was to design an efficient rail network for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=580&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New working paper on potential of complexity science in peace-building and conflict transformation</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/02/05/new-working-paper-on-potential-of-complexity-science-in-peace-building-and-conflict-transformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 2009 working paper by Diane Hendricks is an exploration of the usefulness of complexity theory in the the field of peace research and conflict intervention (to see other publications relevant to complexity and aid, visit the Aid on the Edge of Chaos Publications page) From the Executive Summary: The paper begins by outlining key features [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=535&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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