The purpose of the cindynic space
Author: Pascal Cohet
05 May 2021
The publication of the Duclert report and of the final version of the Muse report illustrates the interest of the notion of cindynic hyperspace, which ...
From ambiguity to resilience
Author: IFREI
21 April 2021
Since the early 90s, cindynic concepts have been constructed gradually. The cindynic vocabulary has also evolved, which can sometimes be confusing if not ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Putting the human being back at the heart of thinking on hazard 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 ...
Manufacturing capabilities are underutilised in the midst of the pandemic
Author: Pascal Cohet
03 February 2021
The cindynic approach to the Risk-Conflict-Development complex puts humans back at the heart of vulnerability reduction strategies. Thus, actors of the ...
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 ...
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 ...