A Research Framework of Conflict Complexity for Brownfield Redevelopment: A Social Network Perspective

Abstract

Game theory is commonly used in conflict research but few attentions were focused on conflict complexity from the perspective of stakeholders' social characteristics. This paper proposed a framework of conflict complexity with social network. The framework included two processes: 1) reviewing literature to establish a theoretical framework, and 2) employing the cases of brownfield redevelopment to demonstrate the feasibility. The results indicated the dynamic feature of social network structure as a consequence of the different roles of stakeholders, the influences of in-group preference as well as dissemination of information in the generation of conflict, and the scope and degree of conflict which were based on simulation analysis. The paper can fill the gap for improving the conflict governance in brownfield redevelopment.