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Paper results for keyword: Conflict resolutionPrinciples for Implementing a Potential Solution to the Middle East Conflict
Thomas Saaty, H. J. ZofferJournal: Notices of the AMSThe purpose of this paper is to show how the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) applies mathematics to deal with the most complex problems of the world in a comprehensive and holistic way—in this case the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This process has been helpful in finding solutions to some of th...
Read MoreA structured scientific solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Analytic Hierarchy Process approach
Thomas Saaty, Luis Vargas, H. J. ZofferJournal: Decision AnalyticsWhile the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has raged for decades, in all of its ramifications there has never been a totally structured or scientific approach to the conflict with all of its details. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approaches the problem along these lines. There are a plethora o...
Read MoreWhen is a decision-making method trustworthy? Criteria for evaluating multi-criteria decision-making methods
Thomas Saaty, Daji ErguDecision makers often face complicated decision problems with intangible and conflicting criteria. Numerous multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods have been proposed to handle the measurement of the priorities of conflicting tangible/intangible criteria and in turn use them to choose the b...
Read MoreBetter world through better decision making
Thomas SaatyJournal: Symp. Anal. Hierarchy ProcessTo change this world from its primitive habit of using words and language to arrive at decisions by making tradeoffs which require the use of numbers, we need to work hard to promote this way of thinking to teach the whole world and its politicians how to measure the intangibles involved in the d...
Read MoreNegotiating the Israeli–Palestinian controversy from a new perspective
Thomas Saaty, H. J. ZofferJournal: Information Technology & Decision MakingIn most long-lasting conflicts, each party's grievances increase while the concessions they are willing to make decline in number, quality, and perceived value. Both parties lose sight of what they are willing to settle for, generally exaggerate their own needs, and minimize the needs of the ...
Read MoreRelative measurement and its generalization in decision making why pairwise comparisons are central in mathematics for the measurement of intangible factors the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Process
Thomas SaatyJournal: RACSAM-Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Serie A. MatematicasAccording to the great mathematician Henri Lebesgue, making direct comparisons of objects with regard to a property is a fundamental mathematical process for deriving measurements. Measuring objects by using a known scale first then comparing the measurements works well for properties for which s...
Read MoreSynthesis of complex criteria decision making: a case towards a consensus agreement for a Middle East conflict resolution
H. J. Zoffer, Asma Bahurmoz, Mohammed K. Hamid, Marcel MinutoloJournal: Group Decision and NegotiationThe title of this paper reflects both the process and the outcome of the current undertaking. Frustrated with the current state of the Middle East but encouraged by earlier attempts at modeling complex problems, the authors participated in a panel discussion assembled to address the conflict and ...
Read MoreThe Analytic Hierarchy Process in conflict management
Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of Conflict ManagementThe Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a theory of measurement. When applied in decision‐making, it assists one to describe the general decision operation by decomposing a complex problem into a multi‐level hierarchic structure of objectives, criteria, subcriteria and alternatives. The AHP provi...
Read MoreInternational center for conflict resolution
Thomas SaatyJournal: Defense AnalysisEveryone agrees that international conflicts carry the seed of worldwide destruction, thus requiring an effective approach to their resolution. The major problem of international conflict resolution today, however, is how to avoid war rather than how to attain peace. Still, the continuance of a g...
Read MoreThe Conflict in South Africa
Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasJournal: The Logic of Priorities The domestic strife in South Africa between ruling whites and subordinated blacks threatens to become a major conflict of violent dimensions in the African continent. This strife is primarily a consequence of racial policies promulgated by the white apartheid regime. Donald Woods (1978) describes...
Read MoreResolution of retributive conflicts
Thomas SaatyJournal: IFAC Proceedings VolumesIn prolonged confrontations, known here as retributive, the parties not only exact their own demands but also want to incur a high cost on the opponent. Success in resolving a conflict is measured by the gain: each party's benefits and the costs to the opponent compared with the perceived gain fo...
Read MoreThe conflict in South Africa: directed or chaotic
David Tarbell, Thomas SaatyJournal: Journal of Peace ScienceThe domestic strife in South Africa between ruling whites and subordinated blacks threatens to become a major conflict of violent dimensions in the African continent. This strife is primarily a consequence of racial policies promulgated by the white, apartheid regime. Donald Woods (1978) describe...
Read MoreThe Conflict in South Africa
Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasJournal: The Logic of Priorities The domestic strife in South Africa between ruling whites and subordinated blacks threatens to become a major conflict of violent dimensions in the African continent. This strife is primarily a consequence of racial policies promulgated by the white apartheid regime. Donald Woods (1978) describes...
Read MoreThe forward and backward processes of conflict analysis
Joyce M. Alexander, Thomas SaatyJournal: Behavioral ScienceIn this study, the forward process of planning is applied to conflict resolution, by structuring a conflict according to the levels of a conceptual hierarchy. The parties to the conflict form the first level, their objectives are at the second level, and possible solutions are at the third and fi...
Read MoreStability analysis of the forward‐backward process: Northern Ireland case study
Joyce M. Alexander, Thomas SaatyJournal: Behavioral ScienceIn this study, the forward and backward processes of planning are applied to conflict resolution in a way similar to that in which the forward process was applied in a previous paper by the authors . By repeated analysis of the policies of the parties to the conflict and possible reactions to the...
Read MoreCenter for conflict resolution
Thomas SaatyJournal: Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsThere are many organizations in the world today that are devoted to studying arms control and conflict resolution. None is really able to provide direct assistance to conflicting parties. what is needed is an international center for Conflict Resolution, located in a neutral territory, that will ...
Read MoreReflections: Mathematical principles of decision making
Birsen KarpakJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis article discusses my reflections on Mathematical Principles of Decision Making by Thomas Saaty  (Saaty T. L., 2010). In this book, Saaty very clearly explains his Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory for measuring both tangible and intangible factors. Experts judgments are elicited about...
Read More
Principles for Implementing a Potential Solution to the Middle East Conflict
Thomas Saaty, H. J. ZofferJournal: Notices of the AMSThe purpose of this paper is to show how the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) applies mathematics to deal with the most complex problems of the world in a comprehensive and holistic way—in this case the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This process has been helpful in finding solutions to some of th...
Read MoreA structured scientific solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Analytic Hierarchy Process approach
Thomas Saaty, Luis Vargas, H. J. ZofferJournal: Decision AnalyticsWhile the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has raged for decades, in all of its ramifications there has never been a totally structured or scientific approach to the conflict with all of its details. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approaches the problem along these lines. There are a plethora o...
Read MoreWhen is a decision-making method trustworthy? Criteria for evaluating multi-criteria decision-making methods
Thomas Saaty, Daji ErguDecision makers often face complicated decision problems with intangible and conflicting criteria. Numerous multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods have been proposed to handle the measurement of the priorities of conflicting tangible/intangible criteria and in turn use them to choose the b...
Read MoreBetter world through better decision making
Thomas SaatyJournal: Symp. Anal. Hierarchy ProcessTo change this world from its primitive habit of using words and language to arrive at decisions by making tradeoffs which require the use of numbers, we need to work hard to promote this way of thinking to teach the whole world and its politicians how to measure the intangibles involved in the d...
Read MoreNegotiating the Israeli–Palestinian controversy from a new perspective
Thomas Saaty, H. J. ZofferJournal: Information Technology & Decision MakingIn most long-lasting conflicts, each party's grievances increase while the concessions they are willing to make decline in number, quality, and perceived value. Both parties lose sight of what they are willing to settle for, generally exaggerate their own needs, and minimize the needs of the ...
Read MoreRelative measurement and its generalization in decision making why pairwise comparisons are central in mathematics for the measurement of intangible factors the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Process
Thomas SaatyJournal: RACSAM-Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Serie A. MatematicasAccording to the great mathematician Henri Lebesgue, making direct comparisons of objects with regard to a property is a fundamental mathematical process for deriving measurements. Measuring objects by using a known scale first then comparing the measurements works well for properties for which s...
Read MoreSynthesis of complex criteria decision making: a case towards a consensus agreement for a Middle East conflict resolution
H. J. Zoffer, Asma Bahurmoz, Mohammed K. Hamid, Marcel MinutoloJournal: Group Decision and NegotiationThe title of this paper reflects both the process and the outcome of the current undertaking. Frustrated with the current state of the Middle East but encouraged by earlier attempts at modeling complex problems, the authors participated in a panel discussion assembled to address the conflict and ...
Read MoreThe Analytic Hierarchy Process in conflict management
Thomas SaatyJournal: International Journal of Conflict ManagementThe Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a theory of measurement. When applied in decision‐making, it assists one to describe the general decision operation by decomposing a complex problem into a multi‐level hierarchic structure of objectives, criteria, subcriteria and alternatives. The AHP provi...
Read MoreInternational center for conflict resolution
Thomas SaatyJournal: Defense AnalysisEveryone agrees that international conflicts carry the seed of worldwide destruction, thus requiring an effective approach to their resolution. The major problem of international conflict resolution today, however, is how to avoid war rather than how to attain peace. Still, the continuance of a g...
Read MoreThe Conflict in South Africa
Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasJournal: The Logic of Priorities The domestic strife in South Africa between ruling whites and subordinated blacks threatens to become a major conflict of violent dimensions in the African continent. This strife is primarily a consequence of racial policies promulgated by the white apartheid regime. Donald Woods (1978) describes...
Read MoreResolution of retributive conflicts
Thomas SaatyJournal: IFAC Proceedings VolumesIn prolonged confrontations, known here as retributive, the parties not only exact their own demands but also want to incur a high cost on the opponent. Success in resolving a conflict is measured by the gain: each party's benefits and the costs to the opponent compared with the perceived gain fo...
Read MoreThe conflict in South Africa: directed or chaotic
David Tarbell, Thomas SaatyJournal: Journal of Peace ScienceThe domestic strife in South Africa between ruling whites and subordinated blacks threatens to become a major conflict of violent dimensions in the African continent. This strife is primarily a consequence of racial policies promulgated by the white, apartheid regime. Donald Woods (1978) describe...
Read MoreThe Conflict in South Africa
Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasJournal: The Logic of Priorities The domestic strife in South Africa between ruling whites and subordinated blacks threatens to become a major conflict of violent dimensions in the African continent. This strife is primarily a consequence of racial policies promulgated by the white apartheid regime. Donald Woods (1978) describes...
Read MoreThe forward and backward processes of conflict analysis
Joyce M. Alexander, Thomas SaatyJournal: Behavioral ScienceIn this study, the forward process of planning is applied to conflict resolution, by structuring a conflict according to the levels of a conceptual hierarchy. The parties to the conflict form the first level, their objectives are at the second level, and possible solutions are at the third and fi...
Read MoreStability analysis of the forward‐backward process: Northern Ireland case study
Joyce M. Alexander, Thomas SaatyJournal: Behavioral ScienceIn this study, the forward and backward processes of planning are applied to conflict resolution in a way similar to that in which the forward process was applied in a previous paper by the authors . By repeated analysis of the policies of the parties to the conflict and possible reactions to the...
Read MoreCenter for conflict resolution
Thomas SaatyJournal: Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsThere are many organizations in the world today that are devoted to studying arms control and conflict resolution. None is really able to provide direct assistance to conflicting parties. what is needed is an international center for Conflict Resolution, located in a neutral territory, that will ...
Read MoreReflections: Mathematical principles of decision making
Birsen KarpakJournal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessThis article discusses my reflections on Mathematical Principles of Decision Making by Thomas Saaty  (Saaty T. L., 2010). In this book, Saaty very clearly explains his Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory for measuring both tangible and intangible factors. Experts judgments are elicited about...
Read More