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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> |
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| == 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.
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| 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.
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| 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''.
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| 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.
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| 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>
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| 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.
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| ==Contributions to international peace building==
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| 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>
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| == Publications ==
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| 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:
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| * 2009. ''The Talking Point:Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning''. With T.R. Flanangan. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
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| * 2006. ''Co-laboratories of democracy: how people harness their collective wisdom to create the future''. With Kenneth C. Bausch. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
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| * 2005. ''Pragmatic Design Dialogue''.
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| Articles and papers, a selection:
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| * 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)
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| * 1987. [[John N. Warfield]], and Christakis, A.N. "Dimensionality," Systems Research 4, pp. 127–137
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| * 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]"
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| * 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
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| * 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
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| == References ==
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| == External links ==
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| * [http://quergeist.net/Christakis/ Biography] Alexander N. Christakis, 2003.
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| * [http://www.cwaltd.com/q76.html Review] Dialogue for the Information Age Democracy, by Alexander N. Christakis, 2005.
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| * 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.
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| * [http://dialogicdesignscience.wikispaces.com Wiki managed by world-wide SDD scientists and practitioners]
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