Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Subject "complexity"

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Mapping the Complexity of Mining & Peacebuilding in Guatemala

Silburt, Aviva (University of Waterloo, 2022-10-13)

This dissertation examines the intersection between foreign owned mining operations and peacebuilding efforts in Guatemala, responding to a number of academic debates and practical issues. Two mines were comparatively ...
Reducing the Emergence of the Gaps: Computation for Weak Emergence

Branch-Smith, Teresa Yolande (University of Waterloo, 2014-09-29)

This thesis contributes to the growing literature surrounding the importance of weak emergence by showing it can account for more phenomena than originally conceived via the use of computational reduction. Weak emergence ...
Violence, Conflict, and World Order: Rethinking War with a Complex Systems Approach

Lawrence, Michael, 1984- (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)

This thesis employs a complex systems approach to argue that the nature of violent conflict coevolves with broader features of world order. The first chapter demonstrates that International Relations and Comparative ...