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'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280

  p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.  

https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

 

 

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Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref>  <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>