PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: John M. Richardson Jr.
Address: 1313 N. Lynnbrook Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
USA

PHONE: [O] 202-885-1694/[H] 703-527-5497
FAX: 703 527 8970 

EMAIL: JRITA@EROLS.COM

WEB: http://gurukul.american.edu/jrich/Richardson.home.html 

Date of Birth: March 12, 1938

A.B., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1960. Major: history (honors program; Degree awarded with distinction in major.)

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Minnesota, 1968. Major: political science. Related fields in economics and anthropology.

SSRC Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship, Center for Comparative Studies in Technological Development and Social Change, University of Minnesota, 1968-69. Areas of emphasis: abstract algebra and applied mathematics.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Class of 1926 Prize Awarded to the outstanding undergraduate thesis in the field of European history, Dartmouth College, 1960.

NDEA 3 year fellowship in political science, University of Minnesota, 1965-68.

SSRC Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship, 1968-69.

"One of the Twenty Most Effective Decision Makers in the World,"

Society for Computer Simulation, 1982.

Making it Happen: A Positive Guide for the Future named by the Journal New Options as one of the ten books published in 1983 most likely to transform American politics along more humane and decentralist lines.

Recipient of grants from U.S. Government organizations, private foundations, not for profit organizations and The American University, to support research and writing on environmental quality, global modeling and Third World political conflict. 

Selected by the Garrett C. Mendis Foundation to deliver the bi-annual Garrett C. Mendis Memorial Lecture, Colombo Sri Lanka, 1990.

Awards from the School of International Service for "Service to the University Community" and "Academic Program Development"

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1960-65 Commissioned officer on active duty, United States Navy. 

1965-68 Graduate student, NDEA Fellow and Research Assistant, Department of Political Science and Center for Comparative Political Analysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.

1968-69 SSRC Postdoctoral Research Training Fellow and Research Associate, Center for Comparative Studies in Technological Development and Social Change, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.

1969-75 Faculty member and administrator, Department of Political Science, Department of Systems Engineering and Systems Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

1975--- Administrator and Faculty Member, Center for Technology and Administration, Quantitative Teaching and Research Laboratory and School of International Service, The American University, Washington, D.C.; One year visiting appointments at the Sloan School of Management, Massachussets Institute of Technology and the Department of History and Political Science, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

- CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1969-74

Research Faculty Member, Systems Research Center, 1970-75

Member, Institute for Complex Systems, 1970-74. Also, member of steering committee that established the Institute.

Director, Donald P. Echman Computing Laboratory, School of Engineering, 1973-75.

Principal member, Rockefeller Project Group, Systems Research Center, 1972-75

Principal member, Global Modeling Group, Systems Research Center, 

1973-75

Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering, 1974-75
 
 

- THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Director, Center for Technology and Administration, 1975-78

Associate Professor of Systems Design and Public Affairs, CTA, 1975-79

Founding Director, Quantitative Teaching and Research Laboratory, College of Public and International Affairs, 1976-82

Professor of Applied Systems Analysis, CTA, 1979-80

Professor of International Affairs and Applied Systems Analysis, School of International Service, 1980–1990

Professor of International Development 1990-

Director of Doctoral Studies, School of International Service, 1991–2000
 
 

- MASSACHUSSETS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Visiting Scholar, System Dynamics Group, Sloan School of Management, 1982-83. Member, System Dynamics National Model Staff.
 
 

- THE UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO, COLOMBO, SRI LANKA

Visiting "Linkage" Professor of International Relations, Graduate Program in International Relations, Department of History and Political Science, 1988.
 
 

MEMBERSHIP AND DIRECTOR LISTINGS

- CURRENT

Charter Member of the Editorial Board, Futures Research Quarterly (1984- 

Nominator, Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prize Competition (1992-

Member of the Board of Directors, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka (1993-

International Advisory Committee Member, Center for Private Sector Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka (1999-

Editorial Board Member, Ethnic Studies Report, 1998 –

- PREVIOUS

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Studiengruppe fur International Analysen, Laxenberg, Austria (1980-92)

Member of the Board of Directors, U.S. Association for the Club of Rome (1980-82)

Member of the Executive Board, U.S. Association for The Club of 

Rome (1983-1986)

Member of the Advisory Committee, Congressional Clearing House on the Future (1983-1987)

Member of the Fowler-McCracken Commission Task Force on Ending Hunger Through Government-Business Cooperation (1984-1987)

Member of the Advisory Council of the Following Organizations:

The Hunger Project (1980-83)

Carrying Capacity (1982-1990)

Miami International Symposium on the Biosphere (1983-84)

Member of the Board of Visitors, Wright Ingraham Institute (1978-85)

Member, Review Committee, Solicited Grants Program, United States Institute of Peace (1992).

Member, Selection Committee, Council #4606, National Scholarship Fund, League of United Latin American Citizens (1992).

Member of the Futures Editorial Advisory Board (1984-1996)

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

The System Dynamics Society (Charter member: 1983-

The World Future Society (1981-

The Business Initiative (Charter member: 1983-87)

The U.S. Association for the Club of Rome (1975-1998)

Americans for the Universality of UNESCO (Charter member: 1984-1992)

The American Political Science Association (1968-73;1986–

International Studies Association (1989–

Association of Political Risk Analysts (1986-92)

The Society for Computer Simulation (1989-92)

The Society for International Development (1989–

American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies (2000–

PUBLICATIONS

- BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Partners in Development: AID University Relations, 1950-66 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1969)

Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling (with Donella Meadows and Gerhart Bruckmann). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1982

Making it Happen: A Positive Guide to the Future. (ed.) Washington: U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, 1982)

Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time has Come (with Elizabeth Neeld, Donella Meadows, Ted Howard and Joan Holmes) New York: F.A. Praeger, 1985. 

Democratization in South Asia: The First 50 Years (ed. with S.W.R. D. Samarasinghe). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sridevi Publications for the International Center for Ethnic Studies, 1998.

Editorial board member for History and Politics – Millenial Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Kingsley M. de Silva. (Colombo, Sri Lanka: Law and Society Trust, 1999.) Contributions to this volume are listed below under "Book Chapters."

IN PROGRESS

Poisoning of Paradise: Political Conflict in Sri Lanka 1948-1998. 

- BOOK CHAPTERS

"Competing Paradigms in Comparative Politics," with Robert T. Holt. In R.T. Holt and J.E. Turner, The Methodology of Comparative Research. (New York: The Free Press, 1970)

"Towards a Multilevel, Organization-Environment Paradigm for Urban Systems" (with Thomas Pelsoci). In Kan Chen, ed., Urban Dynamics: Extensions and Reflections, San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 1971

"The Multilevel Approach and the City: A Proposed Strategy for Investigation" (with Thomas Pelsoci). In M.D. Mesarovic and A. Reisman, eds., Systems Approach and the City (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1972)

"Hierarchical Models of Very Large Problems: Dilemmas, Prospects and an Agenda for the Future." In Clyde F. Martin, ed., Large Scale Dynamic Systems (NASA: 1975) 

"La Ingenieria de Systemas y las Ciencias Politicas: Enfoques" and "La Ingeneria de Systemas y las Ciencias Politicas: Methodos Cuantitvos." In Miguel Cardenas, ed., Applicationes de Analisis de Sistemas: Methodos, Modelos y Resultatos (Compania Editorial Continental, S.A., Mexico, 1976)

"Information Technology Serving Society Past, Present and Future." In R.L. Chartrand, ed., Information Technology Serving Society (New York: Pergamon, 1979)

"Global Modeling in the 1980s." In Jaques Richardson, ed., Models of Reality: Shaping Thought and Action (Mt. Airy, MD: Lomond Publications, 1983). First published in Impact of Science on Society. See below.

"Creating a Grading Index." in Earl Babbie, The Practice of Social Research (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1983)

"Explaining Political Violence: A Dynamic Modeling Approach," in Harold Chestnut and Y.Y. Haimes, eds., Contributions of Technology to International Conflict Resolution (London: Pergamon, 1987)

"Messages from Global Models about an Interdependent World." In Anatoly Gromyko and Martin Hellman, eds., Breakthrough: New Global Thinking (New York: Walker & Co. 1988). Published simultaneously in Russian in the USSR.

"Measuring the Economic Dimensions of Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflicts" (With S.W.R. deA. Samarasinghe). In S.W.R. deA. Samarasinghe and Reid Coughlin, Economic Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict (London: Francis Pinter, 1991).

"Peace Accords: Seeking Conflict Resolution in Deeply Divided Societies" (With Jianxin Wang). In Kingsley M. de Silva and S.W.R. deA. Samarasinghe, Peace Accords and Ethnic Conflict (London: Francis Pinter, 1993).

"The Seventh Blunder, Politics Without Principle: Lessons from Sri Lanka." Arun Gandhi, ed., World Without Violence. (New Delhi: Vikas, 1994)

"Democratization in South Asia: Theory, Experience and Issues" (with Kristine A. Herrmann). In Richardson and Samarasinghe, eds. Democratization in South Asia: The First 50 Years. 

"Democratization in South Asia: Lessons and Prospects" (with Kristine A. Herrmann). In Richardson and Samarasinghe, eds. Democratization in South Asia: The First 50 Years. .

"Problems of a Small State in a Big World: How Global Economic Trends and Great Power Politics Have Impacted Sri Lanka." In History and Politics – Millenial Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Kingsley M. de Silva (1999). See above.

IN PROGRESS:

Paradise Poisoned: The Political Economy of Conflict in Sri Lanka 1948-1988. 

- REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND PROCEEDINGS

"Regulation and Control of Urban Environments: A Multilevel Approach" (With Thomas Pelsoci). IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. (The IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.)

"A Model of Institutional Behavior as a Component of Regional Water Quality Management." Proc. Fourth Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation. (Pittsburgh: ISA, 1973)

"The Development of a Regional Systems Oriented Water Management Model: A Tool for Policy Analysis." Water, 1973 (New York: American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1973)

"Political Science and Systems Engineering: Toward Symbiosis," Proc. IEEE Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, 1974.

"Scenario Analysis of the World Food Problem, 1975-2020 (With M.D. Mesarovic) Proc. First IIASA Symposium on Global Modeling. (Laxenberg, Austria: IIASA, 1974)

"Quantifying `Soft Variables': Difficult but Essential." Simulation IV. (Proc. Fourth Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation. Pittsburgh: Instrument Society of America, 1974)

"Scenario Analysis with an Integrated Model of the Lake Erie Basin." (With J.G. Klabbers and M.D. Mesarovic). Simulation IV.

"The Food Submodel of the Mesarovic-Pestel Project: Structure and Implementation." Proc. Third IIASA Symposium on Global Modeling. (Laxenberg, Austria: IIASA, 1974)

"Towards an Indicator System for the Relationship Between Population and Basic Human Needs." (With Eloise Forgette). Proc. Fourth IIASA Symposium on Global Modeling. (Laxenberg, Austria: IIASA, 1976)

"A Policy Analysis Tool for the Examination of Alternative Phosphorus Control Strategies in the Lake Erie Basin." Simulation VIII. (Pittsburgh: Instrument Society of America, 1977)

"Global Modeling 1. The Models." Futures, 10:5 (October, 1978)

"Global Modeling 2. Where to Now?" Futures, 10:6 (December, 1978. Anniversary Issue)

"The Satisfaction of Basic Needs Index: A Progress Report." In Gerhart Bruckmann, ed., Input-Output Approaches to Global Modeling. (Proc. Fifth IIASA Symposium on Global Modeling. London: Pergamon, 1979)

"Global Modeling in the 1980s." Impact of Science on Society, 31:4 (April, 1981) 

"A Decade of Global Modeling." Futures, 14:4 (April, 1982)

"The State of Futures Research: Personal Reflections." Futures, 16:3 (August, 1984)

"The Resourceful Earth: Optimism and Confrontation." Futures , 17:3 (October, 1985). 

"Violence and Repression: Neglected Factors in Development Planning." Futures, 19:6 (December, 1987).

"Global Modeling: A Retrospective." Futures Research Quarterly, 3:1 (December, 1987).

"Understanding Violent Conflict in Sri Lanka: How Theory Can Help." Ethnic Studies Report, January 1991.

"Ethnic Conflict and Economic Development: A Policy Oriented Analysis" (with Shinjinee Sen). Ethnic Studies Report, January 1997.
 
 

- INVITED ARTICLES AND MISCELLANEOUS

"Towards a Multilevel System Framework for the Formulation of a National Materials Policy." (With M.D. Mesarovic) In John E. Brandl, ed., Scarcity and Growth: Toward a National Materials Policy (Minneapolis: School of Public Affairs: University of Minnesota and National Commission on Materials Policy, 1974) 

"The Creation of a Graduate Program." Information and Records Management, 12:10 (October, 1978)

"Foresight for the United States and How We Can Help." Exerpted from Towards Effective Foresight in the U.S. Government. Simulation, 38:2 (1982) 

"Telecommunications: Society's Nervous System." An Interview with Barbara Marx Hubbard and John Richardson Jr., J.C. Penny Forum, September, 1982.

"Global Models: Tools for Macro Decision Making." (With Donella Meadows and Gerhart Bruckmann.) J.C. Penny Forum, November, 1982.

"Les Models Mondiaux dans les Annees, 1980." Futurables, 54:4 (April, 1982) Translation and adaptation of article which originally appeared in Impact of Science on Society

"A Decade of Global Modelling." The Arab Alternative Futures Dossier 11. (An adaptation of the article previously published in Futures. Adapted and included by request.)

"Developing Nation: A System Dynamics Model." Proc. 1985 International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.

"Sri Lanka and the Global Political Economy: Foreign Policy Perspectives. In Center for Strategic and International Studies, Sri Lanka: Legacy and Prospects. Washington, D.C.: CSIS, 1998. [Conference Proceedings] 

"A Lifelong Commitment to Scholarly Excellence: Tribute to Kingsley de Silva." In History and Politics – Millennial Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Kingsley M. de Silva (1999).

"Why not a Government of National Unity?" Island [Sri Lanka’s largest circulation English newspaper]. August 14, 1999.

FORTHCOMING

Sri Lanka in 1988, Viewed Through American Eyes: Notes to Family and Friends. In Tissa Jayatilekke, ed. Images of Sri Lanka Through American Eyes - Revisited

- MAJOR RESEARCH REPORTS

Applications of Automata Theory to the Study of Political Development (With Robert T. Holt) (Minneapolis: Center for Comparative Studies in Technological Development and Social Change, 1969).

A Policy Oriented Model of the Eutrophication Problem in the Lake Erie Ecosystem. (With Jan G. Klabbers) SRC Report 74- 1. Systems Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, 1974.

International Collaboration at IIASA: Survey and Appraisal. (Washington, D.C., Division of International Programs: The National Science Foundation) 1978.

Towards Effective Foresight in the U.S. Government (1980)

Developing a computer simulation model which leads to published work is a major research task, quite apart from the publications which are subsequently based upon it. A typical model may involve as many as three to five hundred equations, a thousand variables and require the estimation of five hundred or more parameters. The models listed here, with the exception of the last have all provided the basis for major publications. In the case of the Lake Erie and Global Models, the impact has been significant.

Satisfaction Mechanism for the Urban Dynamics Model (With T. Pelsoci). January, 1972. 

The basis for a major national-level policy study, as noted above. 

Integrated Lake Erie Eutrophication Policy Analysis Model. 1976. 

Developing Nation: Mexico. Application of the Generic Developing Nation Model to Mexico. 1987.

Demographic Transition. 1990. Simple model of the demographic transition, in several versions. Used primarily for teaching.

- OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

The Ending Hunger Briefing (with Roy Prosterman, Donella Meadows, Ted Howard, Joan Holmes and the staff of The Hunger Project)

I regularly give papers, lectures and presentations . Presentations have been given both in the United States and numerous foreign countries. Among recent highlights are:

• "Sri Lanka and the Global Political Economy: Foreign Policy Perspectives." Invited paper given at the Conference on "Sri Lanka: Legacy and Prospects." Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., March, 1998. 
• "Resilience and Crises of Democracy and Governance in Non Western Settings: Fifty Years of South Asian Experience. Seminar sponsored jointly by the SID, Washington Chapter Asia Roundtable and the Tulane University Institute for International Development. Washington DC. December, 1998.
• "Fifty Years of Democratization in South Asia" and "Why not a Government of National Unity." Lectures given to students in the General Studies Program of the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute. Colombo, August, 1999.
• Participated in a workshop on "Governance and Corruption in South Asia" organized by the International Center for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, July, 1999.
• Conducted workshop on curriculum reform in Sri Lankan higher education for faculty members of the Department of Political Science and Modern History, University of Colombo. Colombo, August, 1999.
• Along with CSIS South Asian Studies Director and Retired Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, lectured to members of the Serendipity Group ("Friends of Sri Lanka") on "Recent Developments in Sri Lanka." Washington, D.C., December, 1999.
• Invited participant, U.S. Institute of Peace Roundtable Discussion on "Prospects for Negotiations in the Sri Lankan Crisis: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy." Washington D.C., June 2000

 

 

Interview on Sri Lanka's civil war, CNN Intentional News, January, 1996.

Press Conference on Ethnic Conflict in Central Europe and South Asia. Laszlo Teleki Foundation, May, 1996.

Interview on current situation in Sri Lanka and the U.S. designation of the Liberation Tigers as a terrorist organization. Rupavahini (Sri Lankan National Television), October 1997.
 
 

Interviewed by The Washington Times for article on the "Fifteenth Anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict." July 1998.

Interview on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s threatened takeover of Jaffna city in Sri Lanka. CNN International News, May 2000. 
 
 

CONSULTING

I have engaged in extensive consulting activities in the United States and, to a lesser degree, abroad, in the private, governmental and not-for-profit sectors. Included among my clients have been the U.S. Department of State, the Council on Environmental Quality, the General Accounting Office, the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council, the Hunger Project, the General Motors Corporation, AT&T, Battelle National Laboratories, the Al Diriyyah Institute, the Parliament of the European Community, the Ministry of Planning, Government of Egypt and the Plan and Budget Organization, Imperial Government of Iran. In recent years, I have limited my consulting activities in order to focus primarily on teaching, research and directing the School of International Service Doctoral Studies Program.