BENOIT MANDELBROT

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."

BENOIT MANDELBROT
1924 — 2010

Mandelbrot, "the artist mathematician", the father of fractal geometry passed away last week, on the 14th of October at 85 ! A great man -a scientist- who, among others, gave the "Theory of Complexity/Chaos Theory" its mathematical foundation!
http://www.edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/index.html

http://www.math.yale.edu/mandelbrot/

"The Anatomy of Violence"

HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRISIS. IS THERE NO ANSWER TO HUMAN VIOLENCE?(1*
A Cultural Critique in Conversation with Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager
By Peter Robert Stork, M.eng (Germany), M.A. (theol).

In the context of the above paper, the following book seems worth reading and interesting:
Googlebooks-Library: "The Anatomy of Violence" by Dr. Belachew Gebrewold (2009)

Dr. Belachew Gebrewold is an interesting young scholar of high profile, specializing on:

"MAIN RESEARCH AREAS:
Conflicts and Violence in Africa;
European African relations
Africa in international security system" 0*)

0*) http://www.hsu-hh.de/download-1.4.1.php?brick_id=w89E5jrkaZB3Zyqt

1*) http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp127.25102006/02whole.pdf