The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) methodology is employed to ascertain strategic insights into a serious conflict over environmental concerns connected to the expanded exploitation of oil sands at the Jackpine Mine Expansion project located in Alberta, Canada. In fact, the expansion...

The graph model for conflict resolution provides a convenient and effective means to model and analyze a strategic conflict. Standard practice is to carry out a stability analysis of a graph model, and then to follow up with a post-stability analysis, an important component of which is status...

A new conflict analysis technique is employed to analyze the international crisis that was created when Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956. The Suez Crisis involved the use of strategic surprise by the Egyptians and it is clearly demonstrated how this type of situation can be readily...

To demonstrate how the socio-political aspects of energy disputes can be properly considered in energy studies, the methodology of conflict analysis is applied to the political controversy surrounding the siting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in The Netherlands. In addition to...

A fuzzy set approach to multicriteria modelling is presented for selecting the best alternative solution to a large-scale engineering project. The problems of making expert recommendations, amidst conflicting views of different people and institutions, is handled by this technique which...