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Affiliates

 Americans for Indian Opportunity, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Institute for 21st Century Agoras, Atlanta, Georgia and Crete, Greece.

International Society for the Systems Sciences, Monterey, California USA

International Systems Institute, Pacific Grove, California USA

Related Organizational Sites
Institute for 21st Century Agoras Contact: Ken Bausch
Transformation Dialogues Contact: Peter Jones
Future Worlds Center Contact: Yiannis Laouris
Civil Society Dialogue Contact: Tatjana Taraszow and Ilke Dagli
SoCo Design Contact: Tom Flanagan
Local Authorities in Cyprus (Greek) Contact Yiannis Laouris

Books
This section will identify publications and other resources in Structured Dialogic Design and related disciplines, as well as resources dealing explicitly with the CogniScopeTM and Webscope systems.

A reference book describing the science of Dialogic Design with many references can be found in:

http://www.harnessingcollectivewisdom.com/


Other references are listed below:

Banathy, B.H. (1996)Designing Social Systems in a Changing World, Plenum, N.Y.
Banathy, B.H. (2001). Guided Evolution of Society, Plenum, N.Y.
Bausch, K. (2001). The Emerging Consensus in Social System Theory, Plenum, N.Y.
Christakis, A. N., with Bausch, K. (2006). Harnessing Collective Wisdom and Power, Information Age Publshing, Conn.
Flanagan, T. R,, and Christakis, A. N., (2009). The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning, Information Age Publishing, N.C.
Jenlink P. M., and Banathy B. H., Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation, Springer, New York, NY.
McIntyre-Mills, J., Systemic Governance and Accountability: Working and Re-working the Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries,Springer, New Yourk, NY.
Oliga, J.C. (1996). Power, Ideology, and Control, Plenum Press, New York.
Roberts, N. (2002). The Transformative Power of Dialogue, Elsevier Publishing Co.
Spinosa, Charles, Fernando Flores, and Hubert L. Dreyfus. Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997.
Taylor, Charles. The Ethics of Authenticity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Warfield, John N. A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity Through Systems Design. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 2d, 1994.
Warfield, John N., and A. Roxana Cardenas. A Handbook of Interactive Management. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 2d, 1994.
Winograd, T., and Flores, F. (1986). Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ.


Articles & Reports
Christakis, Alexander N. "A People Science": The CogniScopeTM System Approach," Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1996, pp. 16-19. Christakis, A.N. (1973). "A New Policy Science Paradigm," Futures, 5, pp. 543-558.
Christakis, A.N. (1985). "The National Forum on Non industrial Private Forest Lands," Systems Research 2, pp. 189-199.
Christakis, A.N. (1987). "High Technology Participative Design: The Space-Based Laser." In John A. Dillon, Jr. (ed.), General Systems, Volume XXX, Louisville, KY: International Society for General Systems Research, pp. 69-75.
Christakis, A.N. (1988). "The Club of Rome Revisited." In William J. Reckmeyer (ed.), General Systems, Volume XXXI, New York, NY: International Society for the Systems Sciences, pp. 35-38.
Christakis, A.N. (1993). "The Inevitability of Demosophia." In Ioanna Tsivakou (ed.), A Challenge for Systems Thinking: The Aegean Seminar, University of the Aegean Press, Athens, Greece, pp. 187-197.
Christakis, A. N. (1996a). "A People Science: The CogniScopeTM System Approach," Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Sciences 1, pp. 16-19.
Christakis, A. N. (1996b). Learning About the CogniScopeTM System Approach, CWA Report prepared for the 1996 Asilomar Conversation on Designing Social Systems, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, PA.
Christakis, A.N., Krause, L., and Prabhu,Y. (1988). "Synthesis in a New Age," Systems Research 5, pp. 107-114.
Christakis, A.N., Warfield, J.N., and Keever, D. (1989). "Systems Design: Generic Design Theory and Methodology." In Michael Decleris (ed.), Systems Governance, Publisher Ant. N. Sakkoylas, Athens-Komotini, Greece, pp. 143-210, (in Greek).
Christakis, A.N.,Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Feudtner, C., Geranmayeh, A., and Whitehouse, R.J. (1994). Designing the Good Review Practices, CWA Report FDA-694-1, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis, A.N.,Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Feudtner, C., and Whitehouse, R.J. (1995a). Application of the CogniScopeTM System for the Conceptual Design of the AMF Project Plan, CWA Report FDA-195-2, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis A.N., Conaway, D. (1995b). Designing the Development of Regulatory Science, CWA Report FDA-395-4, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis, A.N., Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Geranmayeh, A., and Snow R.M. (1996). Designing Office of Chief Counsel, CWA Report FDA-895-6, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis, A.N., and Bausch, K.C., (2002). Technologue: Technology-Supported Disciplined Dialogue, in Robert, N (ed.) Transformative Power of Dialogue. Elsevier Publishing Co.
Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S. and Bronfman, B. Anticipating Alternative National and Regional Futures in Energy Efficiency, World Futures, (forthcoming). click for pdf.
Christakis, A.N., and Conaway, D.S. (2001). Anticipating Alternative National and Regional Futures in Energy Efficiency, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis, A.N., and Dye, K.M. (1999). Collaboration through Communicative Action: Resolving the Systems Dilemma through CogniScopeTM, Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Sciences, Volume 4, Number 1.
Christakis, A.N., Dye, K.M., and Post, D. (1999). Partners' Forum for Designing a Framework for the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis, A.N., McDonald, R. and Conaway, D.S. (2001). Forest Service Priority Setting for Fiscal Year 2003, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S, Rudavsky, Shari, and Schwartz, Peter (2002). Collaborative Leadership for Patient Safety for Ambulatory Surgery in the Office Setting, Final Report, CWA LTD., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S. and Bausch, K.C. (2002). A Wisdom of the People Forum: Designing a Transnational Indigenous Leaders Interaction in the Context of Globalization (Co-Laboratory of Democracy), CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
de Zeeuw, G. (1996). "Second Order Organizational Research," Working Papers in Systems and Information Sciences, University of Humberside, Hull, England.
Dye, K.M. and Conaway, D.S. (1999). Lessons Learned from Five Years of Application of the CogniScopeTM Approach to the Food and Drug Administration, CWA Ltd. Report, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Dye, K.M., Feudtner, C., Post, D., and Vogt, E.M. (1999). Developing Collaborative Leadership to Reframe the Safe Use of Pharmaceuticals as a National Health Priority, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Habermas, J. (1987), The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and System: a Critique of Functionalist Reason, (Vol. 2, translated by McCarthy, T.,), Beacon Press, Boston, Mass.
Jackson, M. (1995). "Beyond the Fads: Systems Thinking for Managers," Systems Research 12, pp. 25-42.
Kahn, K. B. (1996). "Interdepartmental Integration: A Definition with Implications for Product Development Performance", Journal of Product Innovation Management, 13, pp. 137-151.
Laouris, Y. 1998. “Citizens’ Contributions to the Political Settlement in Cyprus.” Speech given at Peoples’ Europe 98 Conference, as part of a symposium with special advisor Sir David Haney, London, June 5–7.

Laouris, Y. 2000. The double personality of the Cypriot society, available at: www.tech4peace.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=714. Laouris, Y. (2004). Information technology in the service of peace building; The case of Cyprus. World Futures, 60, 67–79.
Laouris, Y. (2008). The Law of Requisite Action (in preparation). Laouris, Y. and Laouri, R. (2008). Can information and Mobile technologies serve close the gap and accelerate development? World Futures (in press).
Laouris, Y. and Christakis, A. (2007). Harnessing collective wisdom at a fraction of the time using Structured Design Process embedded within a virtual communication context. International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (in press).
Laouris, Y. and Michaelides, M. (2007a) What obstacles prevent practical broad-band applications from being produced and exploited? In: Towards an inclusive future Impact and wider potential of information and communication technologies, Editor Roe Patrick. Chapter 7. Available on line at: http://www.tiresias.org/cost219ter/inclusive_future/inclusive_future_ch7.htm

Laouris, Y. Michaelides, M. and Sapio, B. (2007). What are the obstacles that prevent the wide public from benefiting and participating in the broadband society? Conference Proceedings Cost 298 conference, Moscow 2007. Available on-line at www.cost298.org

Laouris, Y. and Christakis, A. (2007). Harnessing collective wisdom at a fraction of the time using Structured Design Process embedded within a virtual communication context. I Int. J. Applied Systemic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 131-153.

Laouris, Y., Erel, A., Michaelides, M,. Damdelen, M., Taraszow, T., Dagli, I., and Christakis, A. (2008). A roadmap based on evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured design process. Cyprus Review (in preparation).

Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M., Damdelen,, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., & Christakis, A. (2009). A systemic evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured dialogic design process. Systemic Practice and Action Research 22(1): 45-75.
Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M., Damdelen,, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., & Christakis, A. (2007). A Systemic Evaluation of the State of Affairs Following the Negative Outcome of the Referendum in Cyprus using a Structured Dialogic Design Process. Retrieved at: http://www.futureworldscenter.org/Research/Full%20Papers/RevivingPeaceArticle2007_04_13.pdf

Magliocca, L.A., and Christakis, A.N. (2001). Creating a Framework for Sustainable Organizational Leadership: CogniScopeTM System Approach, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 18, 259-277.
Miller, G.A. (1956). "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limitations on Our Capacity for Processing Information," Psychology Review 63, pp. 81-97.
Mingers, J.C. (1992). "Technical, Practical, and Critical OR--Past, Present, Future?" Journal of the Operations Research Society, 42, pp. 375-382.
Schwartz, P. and Christakis, A.N. (2001). Quality of Mental Health Information on the Internet, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Schwartz, P. and Christakis, A.N. (2001). Collaborative Leadership Summit: Designing a Framework for the Sustainability of Patient Assistance, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Schwartz, P., Feudtner, C., and Dye, K.M. (2001). Collaborative Leadership for End Stage Renal Disease, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Schreibman, V., and Christakis, A. N., New Agora, New Geometry of Languaging, and New Technology of Democracy, Int. J. Applied Systemic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 32-53.
Simon, H.A. (1974). "How Big is a Chunk," Science, 183, pp. 482-488.
Slater, P., and Bennis, W. (1990). "Democracy is Inevitable," Harvard Business Review, September-October.
Taylor, J.B., (1976). "Building an Interdisciplinary Team." In Arnstein, S.R., and Christakis, A.N., (ed.) Perspectives on Technology Assessment, Science and Technology Publishers, Jerusalem, Israel, 45-63.
Ulrich, W. (1983), Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy, Paul Haupt, Berne, Switzerland.
Warfield, J.N. (1988). "The Magical Number Three, Plus or Minus Zero," Cybernetics and Systems, 19, pp. 339-358.
Warfield, J.N. (1991). "Complexity and Cognitive Equilibrium: Experimental Results and Their Implications," Human Systems Management, 10, pp. 195-202.
Warfield, J.N. (1993). Structural Thinking, Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Warfield, J.N., and Christakis, A.N. (1987). "Dimensionality," Systems Research 4, pp.127-137.
Warfield, J.N., and Staley, S.M. (1996). "Structural Thinking: Organizing Complexity Through Disciplined Activity," Systems Research 13, pp. 47-68.
Zeleny, M. (1989). "Cognitive Equilibrium: A New Paradigm of Decision Making?," Human Systems Management, 8, pp. 185-188


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