Autori: Pruyt E, Armenia S, Tsaples G, Antinori A, Onori R
Tipologia Prodotto: Contributo in Atti di convegno
Convegno: 33rd International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC), 2015, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Anno di Pubblicazione: 2015
Link: https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2015/proceed/papers/P1094.pdf
Abstract:
Foreign fighters, wannabe foreign fighters, and returned foreign fighters have occupied the European news bulletins for many months. Foreign fighters voluntarily join fighting parties in conflict zones, like in Syria and Iraq. Both wannabe foreign fighters and returning foreign fighters from these and other regions directly pose a substantial real threat to Western nations. And actual foreign fighters pose a direct foreign threat as well as an indirect domestic threat. In spite of the fact that the general public opinion supports the perspective that there is a domestic foreign-fighter related security problem, perspectives between and within Western nations as to the causes and solutions differ. In this paper, we present SD models that correspond to three of these perspectives. These models are simulated in view of finding robust policies, i.e. policies that work across different perspectives.
Keywords: foreign fighters, international relations, terrorism, modeling & simulation, system dynamics