SECURITY STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER
EXPLORING COMPLEXITY
Our projects span a broad spectrum – from fundamental research into the behavioural patterns of complex systems and the systemic factors shaping the evolution of social groups, to applied studies aimed at enhancing human adaptive potential under conditions of extreme stress. We also engage in work to improve regulatory and legal frameworks in the fields of data protection, information security and systemic resilience.
Despite their diversity, all our initiatives converge around a central challenge: how can complex sociotechnical systems survive, adapt, and evolve in the face of high-impact, stochastic, and potentially destructive threats?
Each project represents an attempt to answer this question – theoretically, methodologically, or practically – through rigorous inquiry, interdisciplinary synthesis, and a commitment to advancing security as a generative force for systemic transformation.
ADVANCING SECURITY
Our projects bring together theorists and practitioners working at the frontiers of security research, complex adaptive systems, chaos theory, game and catastrophe theory, social psychology, evolutionary biology, and adjacent fields. These are researchers with original ideas and the intellectual courage to look beyond the boundaries of established knowledge – to question what others take for granted, and to imagine what others find unthinkable.
ENABLING EVOLUTION
We are convinced that survival and evolution in the 21-st century will require us to rise above our internal confines and confront the most formidable challenges of our age – from managing disease and ecological collapse to confronting economic inequality, resource scarcity, and the devastations of war. Yet none of these goals can be addressed in isolation. To endure and evolve, we must take all necessary steps toward a more profound and integrative objective: understanding the place of humanity within the unfolding dynamics of the Universe.