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 in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the founding members of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group in 1995[1], Laouris designed and implemented dozens of peace and reconciliation projects over several decades [2], [3], [4], [5]. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio[6] and of the Technology for peace [7] initiative.
Biography
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including The English School, Nicosia, the Pancyprian Gymnasium and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the Cypriot National Guard as the first Cypriot senior cryptographer in the Headquarters after the Military coup in Cyprus of the Greek military junta and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the Leipzig University in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation[8]. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors Hans Diedrich Henatsch and Uwe Windhorst. He was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the University of Arizona. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action [9], [10], 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 Romme, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method [11], [12]
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through the application of modern technology and the science of Structured Dialogic Design (SDD). He is the
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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. 18
- ↑ Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015 p. 81
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace
- ↑ Media coverage of PhD award
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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