December 7, 2023 (Thursday, 10:30-11:30 AM JST)
MIRAI CREA 2F Large Conference Room
About the Lecture
This workshop offers hands-on training in causal loop diagrams, focusing on environmental sustainability and peace processes. It uses real-world examples to demonstrate how these diagrams capture complex dynamics, enhancing skills in understanding and applying them to intricate, non-linear environmental and peace interactions.
About the Guest Lecturer
Dr. Ali Kharrazi is a Senior Research Scholar at the Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Research Group of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and also serves as a visiting Associate Professor at the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) of Hiroshima University. His overarching research interest concerns the sustainability challenges of coupled economic-environmental systems, and more specifically, the development of models and metrics that can evaluate the resilience of critical global resource networks to shocks and disturbances. Ali has lectured on human-environmental systems, corporate sustainability, and sustainable science at The University of Tokyo and Akita International University in Japan. He holds numerous editorial board positions in sustainability-focused journals and is the editor-in-chief of Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. He has received prestigious competitive research funding, most notably from the Belmont Forum, Horizon Europe, and the Marie Curie Fellowship. In addition to his roles in academia, Ali engages the science-policy interface previously as a consultant to UN agencies on food and resource trade networks and currently as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Nexus Assessment Report.
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