from fights to debates by ANATOL RAPOPORT
Professor of Mathematical Biology at the Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan
Professor Rapoport's Fights, Games, and Debate's and Strategy end Conscience have aroused wide interest as attempts to devise new ways of looking at international conflict. In this talk he examines views of war as diverse as those of Tolstoy and Clausewitz, and he suggests that our present embryo ' science of conflict ' should develop by imaginative, exploratory use of at least three approaches: the ' cataclysmic,' the ' strategic ' and the ' ideological' — corresponding to the three main bands In the conflict spectrum.