The COMPRAM Methodology and Complex Societal Problems-an Analysis of the Case of Children Born of War

• Authors: Ingvill Mochmann , Dorien DeTombe
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

During and after wars children are born where the father is a member of an occupation or peacekeeping force and the mother a local citizen. Securing the human rights of children born of war is often highly complex and involves researchers and practitioners from different disciplines. The Compram methodology on handling complex societal problems will be applied to analyse whether the methodology is suitable on this group of war-affected children. The Compram methodology is a multi disciplined, multi level, multi actor methodology based on the theory of societal complexity. The methodology gives guidelines to handle real life complex societal problems.

Keywords

EN

OR in societal problem analysis; Taboo research; COMPRAM methodology; children; war

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 113-124

Dates

published

2010-05-01

online

2010-06-09

Contributors

author

Ingvill Mochmann

• GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Bachemer Str. 40, D-50931 Cologne, Germany

author

Dorien DeTombe

• Chair Operational Research Euro Working Group Complex Societal problems, P. O. Box. 3286, 1001, AB Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-010-0012-3