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Yiannis Laouris, President (2024-2026) 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 peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group in 1995[1], Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus[2] [3] [4] [5]. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio[6] and the Technology for Peace[7] [8] 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[9]. 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.

Scientific Contributions

Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action, [10] [11] 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 [12] [13] thus contributing to the development of community operational research [14] [15] [16], having conducted SDDs worldwide[17].

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto [18] [19] for Europe [20] [21] and co-presented it in the European Parliament [22]

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied Digital signal processing in time and frequency domains to single-cell recordings from experimental animals to study transmission properties and fatique of cat 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[23] [24] [25] [26]

Authority

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace
  8. https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace
  9. Media coverage of PhD award
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era
  19. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era
  20. Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII
  21. Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.
  26. 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.