This paper presents the first phase of a work in progress which aims at building a System Dynamics simulation model of the theory of the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto. This theory proposes that the explanation for the fail of capitalism in Latin America should be looked in the informal...

The presence of protests, sometimes during violent conflict and civil war, across the globe, seems to contradict the common view that civil war and protests are mutually exclusive episodes and do not belong to a continuum. Instead, peaceful – and less peaceful – protests can coincide with...