Roundtable: Stella Kim on Conflict, Crisis, and Complexity

Robert Lamb, START associate research scientist and founding director of the Complexity Solutions Lab at the School of Public Policy's Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, is hosting a roundtable discussion with Stella Kim, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. 

The discussion will center around Kim’s research on conflicts, crises, and complexity. The 21st century has given way to the emergence of two phenomena: a transformation in armed conflicts, which have grown in quantity, complexity, and intensity, and a system of global crises that amplify and condition each other, with a new degree of interdependence: climate change, global health pandemics, and renewed strategic rivalry. How is this system of global crises influencing the transformation in armed conflicts? How is global complexity affecting armed conflict? Drawing on complex systems theory, which posits that new patterns and behaviors emerge from the interactions among interdependent crises, Kim’s dissertation seeks to show how this system of crises shapes conflict dynamics. Her research is intended to capture both the configurational patterns and causal pathways underlying these complex relationships.

RSVP by emailing Robert Lamb at rdlamb@umd.edu.