Computer-oriented peace research

Imagine a management consulting and research type of organization called, say, the Universal Study Center for the Salvage and Reorganization of Institutions in Imminent Danger of Destruction Applying Computers Wherever Feasible (USCSRIIDDACWF), located on a planet in our solar system. Its services are available for hire to planetary social institutions. One of its newly formed divisions called, say, the Peace on Earth Research Center (PERC), has on its staff historians, social scientists, physical scientists, artists, and members of the computer profession. Suppose, furthermore, that Earth, a planetary social institution in imminent danger of self destruction, has called upon USCSRIIDDACWF to produce considered and documented alternative advisory opinions on how Earth might prevent or indefinitely postpone its demise, and on how to establish conditions favorable to future Earth peace, health and prosperity. The contract is assigned to PERC---the division of USCSRIIDDACWF specializing in Earth's problems.