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Modeling Context in Punjabi Conflict Resolution: Social Organizations as Context Agents

Lyon,, S,m.

Authors

S,m. Lyon,



Abstract

This paper suggests that multiagent model design can be a useful device for researchers in the social sciences. Focusing on the pluralistic competing venues and strategies for conflict resolution in Punjab, Pakistan, I argue that the social context must be rendered more dynamic and interactive in our analytical models. By representing social context as agents in the formal description of particular cases of conflict resolution, certain recursive properties of different social contexts become apparent. In modification to my argument in an earlier paper (Cybernetics and Systems Research, vol. 1, pp. 383-388, 2002), I argue that the complexity of agents representing social context may usefully be reduced by creating libraries of core social contexts from which instantiations, such as those discussed here, inherit all the common attributes.

Citation

Lyon,, S. (2004). Modeling Context in Punjabi Conflict Resolution: Social Organizations as Context Agents. Cybernetics and Systems, 35(2-3), 193-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/01969720490426867

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Mar 1, 2004
Deposit Date Mar 26, 2008
Journal Cybernetics and Systems
Print ISSN 0196-9722
Electronic ISSN 1087-6553
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 35
Issue 2-3
Pages 193-210
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01969720490426867
Keywords Arbitration, Conflict, Punjab, Social modelling, Social modeling.


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