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'''Alexander (Aleco) Christakis''' ({{lang-el|Αλέξανδρος Χρηστάκης}}; 1937, [[Athens]], [[Greece]]) is a [[Greece|Greek]] American [[social scientist]], [[systems scientist]] and [[cyberneticist]], former faculty member of several Universities, organizational consultant and member of the [[Club of Rome]], known for his "study and design of social systems".<ref name = "CWA">[http://www.cwaltd.com/index1.htm?main.htm&2 Biography] Alexander N. Christakis, January 17, 2003.</ref>
'''Tom Flanagan''' is president of the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]], the umbrella institution responsible for the development of the [[Science of Dialogic Design]] and the monitoring of world-wide [[Structured Dialogic Design Process|SDDP]] application. The [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras|Agoras]] we re founded by [[Aleco Christakis]] and have in the Board also [[Yiannis Laouris]], President of [[Future Worlds Center]]. From his position as President, Tom supports and collaborates intensively with [[Future Wolds Center]]..</ref>


== Biography ==
== Short Bio ==
Christakis came to the United States in 1956, and received a BA in [[theoretical physics]] at [[Princeton University]] and a [[Ph.D.]] in theoretical nuclear physics at [[Yale]]. Later on he proceeded studying [[urban planning]], and [[systems science]] until 1970. 


In the 1960s he returned to Greece and joined the architectural firm of [[Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis|Doxiadis Associates]], which was specialized in architecture and town planner. In 1968 he was co-founder of the [[Club of Rome]], where he was a collaborator of [[Aurelio Peccei]], [[Erich Jantsch]] and [[Hasan Özbekhan]]. Since the 1970s Christakis has served on the faculties of [[Yale University]], [[Georgetown University]], [[University of Athens]], and the [[University of Virginia]]. He also spent five years at [[George Mason University]] as the Director of the Center for Interactive Management headed by [[John N. Warfield]]. In 1989 Christakis founded his own management consultancy firm CWA Ltd. dedicated to  apply Interactive Management principles, and he has been CEO ever since.
Christakis serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including ''[[Systems Research and Behavioral Science]]s'', ''Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Science'', and the ''Journal of Applied Systems Studies''.
In 2002, Dr. Christakis served as President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]]. He also serves as President of the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]],<ref>[http://www.globalagoras.org Global Agoras<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of civic, global, and institutional capacity for coordinated democratic decision-making using systems principles (Co-Laboratories of Democracy.) The Institute for 21st Century Agoras is credited for the formalization of the science of [[Structured dialogic design]] in its present form. Dr. Christakis is also a partner with Dialogic Design International [http://dialogicdesignllc.com] a consulting firm that deploys SDD in systemic design approaches for complex  organizational and systems problems.
In 2007 he served on the Board of Directors of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), of [[Future Worlds Center]] and also as an Advisor to the Ambassadors Program of AIO, which serves indigenous people around the world.<ref>[http://www.AIO.org Americans for Indian Opportunity<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
He has received numerous awards and distinctions including the '''DEMOSOPHIA Award'''<ref>By [[John N. Warfield]] awarded in 1993 by Roxana Cardenas during an International Conference at ITESM, which is the most prominent Mexican University System</ref>, the '''Creative Programming Award''' from the National University Continuing Education Association<ref>Awarded in 1983 while Aleco Christakis was teaching at the University of Virginia</ref> and the [[The Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Medal|most prestigious medal]] of the [[Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies]] to name a few.
==Contributions to international peace building==
Christakis has been invited to support the peace process in Cyprus and the Middle East. He and [[Yiannis Laouris|Laouris]] led the implementation of series of mass scale dialogues using the [[Structured dialogic design]] process in the [[Civil Society Dialogue project in Cyprus]] and in the Act Beyond Borders project in Middle East<ref>[http://www.ActBeyondBorders.net Act Beyond Borders Initiative]</ref>
== Publications ==
Christakis has published over 100 papers on the management of complexity in refereed journals. He is also the co-author of three books on "Technology Assessment". Books:
* 2009. ''The Talking Point:Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning''. With T.R. Flanangan.  Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
* 2006. ''Co-laboratories of democracy: how people harness their collective wisdom to create the future''. With Kenneth C. Bausch. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
* 2005. ''Pragmatic Design Dialogue''.
Articles and papers, a selection:
* 1970. "[http://quergeist.net/Christakis/predicament.pdf The Predicament of Mankind  Quest for Structured Responses for Growing World-wide Complexities and Uncertainties]". With co-authors like Hasan Özbekhan, Erich Jantsch, Peccei, ...and others (PDF)
* 1987. [[John N. Warfield]], and Christakis, A.N. "Dimensionality," Systems Research 4, pp.&nbsp;127–137
* 2004. "[http://quergeist.net/Christakis/RETROSPECTIVE-INQUIRY-Club-of-Rome-Original_Prospectus.pdf Retrospective Inquiry of the predicament of menkind prospectus of the Club of Rome]"
* 2009. Interview: ''Learnings and Vistas based on revisiting 40 years of the "Global Problematique"'' [http://sites.google.com/site/21stcenturyagora/sources-club-of-rome/40years-problematique] Interview in [http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/CommunityPosts/tabid/809/PostID/1128/LearningsandVistasbasedonrevisiting40yearsGlobalProblematique.aspx Europe'sWorld] by Heiner Benking [http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Heiner_Benking], November, 2009
* 2011. Interview: ''The Predicament of the Individual, Communities, and Humankind in the 21st Century''[http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/CommunityPosts/tabid/809/PostID/2711/ThePredicamentoftheIndividualCommunitiesandHumankindinthe21stCentury.aspx] by Heiner Benking [http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/PublicProfile/tabid/690/userid/2543/language/en-US/Default.aspx], September 2011
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://quergeist.net/Christakis/ Biography] Alexander N. Christakis, 2003.
* [http://www.cwaltd.com/q76.html Review] Dialogue for the Information Age Democracy, by Alexander N. Christakis, 2005.
* Institute for 21st Century Agoras [http://globalagoras.org] a non-profit organization founded by Christakis with Kenneth Bausch to promote the pursuit of democratic approaches to collective wisdom and decision making made possible with Co-Laboratories of Democracy.
* [http://dialogicdesignscience.wikispaces.com  Wiki managed by world-wide SDD scientists and practitioners]


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