Dear all,

This is a friendly reminder of three upcoming events on this Friday and Saturday.

FRIDAY, September 25
1) Prof. Thomas Saaty’s lecture on Resolution of Redistributive Conflicts
Time: 3 PM
Place: Lewis Auditorium

2) Regional Science Gathering (for those who email me back with your name and Cornell ID)
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: Jansen Dining Room, Hans Bethe Hall
Note: To get to the dining room, you can enter from any entrance and follow posted directions to the Jansen Dining Room.  You then need to check in with the door-checker who will direct you to the reserved tables.
Map: http://hansbethehouse.cornell.edu/map.cfm

SATURDAY, September 26
3) Workshop on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process (for those who signed up with Sarah Smith)
Time: 9AM – 1PM
Place: Barclay Jones Urban Design Lab on the third floor of W.Sibley

Thank you and hope to see you all tomorrow!!!

Best,
Nij and Sutee

Asian Peace Science Network, Japan International Cooperation Agency Research
Institute and Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
Tokyo, 28-29 August 2009

For more details see: Abstract and Program.

Crisis, Complexity and Conflict
Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace
Economics and Development, Volume 9

Authored by: Iwan J. Azis
Series Editor: Manas Chatterji
ISBN: 9781848552043 (paper)
ISSN: 1572-8323
Publish date: 3 July 2009
Order: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781848552043

Synopsis
Many economic issues that touch the life of millions of people are more complex than most people thought. From the US financial crisis to regional cooperation, from the oil price shock to climate change, policy conflicts abound. The book distils some of these conflicts and argues that understanding the nature and intensity of trade-offs is a key to resolving the conflicts. It can help improve the quality of policy debate, and remind us about what really matters. What caused the 2007/2008 crisis, how could problems in a small segment of the mortgage market bring down the world’s largest economy, what effects an oil price surge had, and how the policy response to climate change can benefit the poor? With a better understanding about the complexity of interrelations, multiple goals that are seemingly at odds in all those issues are not necessarily in conflict with one another. When conflicts are acute, reverting to the ultimate and more fundamental goals can help resolve the problem. What alternative systems to explore (for example, with regulatory rules and an incentive system that minimizes mismanagement and greed), and which segments of society on which to focus (for example, the poor in developing countries) are among key attributes in such fundamental goals. The book provides an enlightening glimpse of complexity in many policy conflicts.

One boy and one girl.

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• Cornell has established “Office of Research Integrity and Assurance (ORIA)” to assure that any primary data collection (survey or laboratory test) conducted by Cornell students or faculties is compliance with the government regulations
• Thus, any research done by PhD students must meet the requirement regardless of the place where the research was conducted (within or outside the US) or the source of funding
• For more details, visit the website: http://www.oria.cornell.edu/

• August 2nd – 3rd, 2008 in Bali, Indonesia
• Main purpose: Launching of the Economists for Peace Science in Asia
• Key participants: Fujita, Yoginder Alagh, Kawai, Thanong Bidaya
• All Regional Science Students are welcome to join the conference.