Complex Systems Science
and Peace Studies

Human society is a self-organized hierarchal complex system similar to living organisms. It has been studied for hundreds of year. Therefore, those studies may suggest to current studies on general complex systems a lot. Individual recognition is a fundamental function in human society. It should be also remarked that modern individuals have developed as long as social relationships have reflected on them. Peace studies are the most practical activity in social complex systems studies.

(by Y. Nagano)

Fig. 1. Evolutionary self-organization in a primitive life.

Textbook of undergraduate school in Osaka University, “Pursuit of Peace Studies”, E. Kido and Y. Nagano eds. (2008).