Complex Systems for the Most Vulnerable
"Many things [] are not merely a complete aggregate but instead some kind of a whole beyond its parts", Aristotle, Metaphysics, , The laws of human behavior, In 1968 Stanley Milgram and two colleagues, trying to shed some light on behavioral influence questions, used New York as a living lab. They placed one person in the street looking up at a building and counted how many other pedestrians stopped and looked up too. Then they placed two people and compared. Then three. And so on. The experiment,…, Complex Systems at work, UNICEF works in many difficult environments, governed by complex systems dynamics. In 2017 alone, UNICEF responded to 337 humanitarian situations in 102 countries -- from natural disasters to health and socio-political crises. Addressing the problems of the most vulnerable children means dealing with social norms, migrations, epidemics, climate…