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| ===A Historical Perspective===
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| For the last 40 plus years there have been more than 1,000 applications of the Co-Laboratory of democracy approach in a variety of settings around the world. For example in Cyprus, the location of this Symposion (it is the original Greek word meaning drinking together), we have a history of more than 15 years of applications and more than 100 colaboratories for government agencies, such as the Ministries of Finance, Transportation, Interior, and others, as well as bi-communal Co-Labs involving Greek and Turkish Cypriots as well as Israelis and Palestinians addressing issues of conflict resolution and peace on the island of Aphrodite.
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| The first test of the [[Interpretive Structural Modeling]] algorithm, developed by [[John Warfield]] in 1971, was conducted by [[Dave Malone]] and [[Aleco Christakis]] on the table top of Warfield’s office at the Battelle Columbus Laboratories in Ohio, USA. The first application of ISM with real people was conducted by Brother Raymond Fitz, who later on became the President of the University of Dayton, with the City Council of Dayton in 1973. There is a video of this session with the members of the city council deliberating on setting budget priorities for allocating the city revenue. The first Center for Interactive Management was established by Warfield and Christakis at the University of Virginia in 1982, and was moved to George Mason University in 1984. The firs consultancy employing the ISM methodology was established by Christakis in Philadelphia in 1989, and it worked for 25 years with more than 50 clients in government agencies, corporations, foundations, and NGOs. The Institute for 21st Century Agoras was founded by Dr. Ken Bausch and Aleco Christakis in 2002 in preparation for the 2003 International conference in Crete of ISSS (www.ISSS.org) when Christakis was serving as President of the systems society.
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| ==Citations== | | ==Citations== |
