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Vulnerability, Resilience and Social Darwinism

No, Cindynics do not justify social Darwinism, quite the contrary.

Author: Pascal Cohet 25 March 2021

In a book devoted to the ambiguities of the term resilience, Magali Reghezza-Zitt and Samuel Rufat note that this term, initially used in the fields of ...

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Turkish Killer Autonomous Weapons Are Used in Africa, UN Report Says

Still no ban on killer robots, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt asks Biden to reject the ban

Author: IFREI 19 March 2021

The UN Panel of Experts on Libya has just published a report denouncing the total ineffectiveness of the arms embargo imposed on Libya in 2011 by the ...

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COVID-19 Vaccine: The Failure of the Pasteur Institute

Second-order Cindynics, conflictuality reduction and operational efficiency

Author: IFREI 17 March 2021

The announcement of the termination of the Pasteur Institute's main COVID-19 vaccine candidate dismayed the French. At first, it seemed relevant to ...

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2019 Failed Coup in Gabon: Probabilities vs Cindynics

Construction of collective action: third-order MRC modeling and power assessments

Author: IFREI 12 March 2021

In a previous post, we described how going beyond probabilistic approaches enabled the mastery of propensities to emerge as the central concept of the ...

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2019 Failed Coup in Gabon: The Deepfake Theory

Anyhow, it remains true that deepfakes are giving rise to a sea change in the genesis of conflictualities

Author: IFREI 03 March 2021

In early 2019, a handful of soldiers attempted a coup in Gabon. The Gabonese domestic situation was conflictual since the 2016 presidential election and ...

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Weaving Models With MRC

A visualisation of the interweaving of risk and conflict

Author: IFREI 21 February 2021

After having highlighted the need to go beyond probabilistic risk modeling, Georges-Yves Kervern undertook to model danger situations. At that time, he ...

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How Cindynics Went Beyond Probabilities

Putting the human being back at the heart of the reflection on danger issues

Author: IFREI 18 February 2021

Cindynics have occasionally been erroneously presented as relying on the use of probability theory. Not only is this not the case, but this is the worst ...

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Patents vs Access to Covid Vaccines in Africa : An Example of Axiological Degeneracy

Manufacturing capabilities are underutilised in the midst of the pandemic

Author: Pascal Cohet 03 February 2021

The cindynical approach to the Risk-Conflict-Development complex puts humans back at the heart of vulnerability reduction strategies. Thus, actors of the ...

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The Russian Grip on Central African Media

Purchasing local journalists & killing Russian journalists

Author: IFREI 31 January 2021

While Russian information operations in Bangui rely on Facebook or school propaganda, radio stations and the press are also manipulated : these maneuvers ...

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Facebook's War on "Coordonated Inauthentic Behaviors" in Africa

Etiology of a nebulous and hazardous concept

Author: IFREI 27 January 2021

In its fight against cyber-interference or information operations such as those carried out by Evgueny Prigozhin's conglomerate during the 2016 US ...

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Pandemics : Real Name Policy vs Whistle Blowers

Why Mark Zuckerberg's sister is wrong

Author: IFREI 21 January 2021

About ten years ago, the real name policy imposed by social networks such as Facebook or the now deceased Google+ sparked a controversy, especially in the ...

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