Cascading Conflict: What is the Science of Violence? 

Moderator Rachel Kleinfeld explores the “science of violence” with researchers from the Santa Fe Institute. David Krakauer, and Edward Lee are researchers in the C4 Collective Computation Group @SFI who look for patterns in complex social systems. Their recently published paper, “Scaling theory of armed-conflict avalanches” (Physical Review E, 2020), will form the basis for the discussion. Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of the 2018 book A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security. This event is co-hosted by the Santa Fe Council for International Relations and the Santa Fe Institute.