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Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative

Our scientists, mathematicians and modelers are tackling head-on the challenges of the most pressing issues facing societies: uncertainty, scalability, tipping points and path dependence. Together with our global partners, we will establish the international standards and infrastructure for a transformative complex adaptive systems approach to change that will ensure a sustainable future.

Join us on this exciting adventure to shape the future of science and our society.

Research

The world as we know it today was not planned—it emerged. It emerged with an astonishing amount of innovation, technological progress, investment and human effort, with the intention of creating a better world.

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Education

In keeping with the goals of The New American University, the Biosocial Complexity Inititiative is committed to establishing ASU as a global center for interdisciplinary research, discovery and development by 2020.

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Partners

The development of the complex adaptive systems approach is a global team effort involving researchers and institutions across the university and around the world.

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