Policy Diffusion by means of Defense and Security Simulations and the uses of agent-based modelling

Resumen

This paper is about three elements: inter-agency
cooperation simulations with security and defense
practitioners as actors; policy diffusion as a way of
innovative and incremental gains using practices and the
observation of behaviors; and, agent-based modelling as
a tool to enhance performance, observing tendencies and
acquiring more visibility of the processes and practices
imbibed. For this, the first part of the paper is focused
on the uses of the literature that expresses decision
making process behaviors as a fundamental part of the
institutionalization process in terms of cooperation.
Adaptive institutionalization is the core element of this
approach; in which we believe policy diffusion can derive
progressively and in an incremental way. Secondly, we
are going to present the inter-agency simulation cases we
are working with as part of an inter-institutional effort;
researching on those ties and proposing new forms of
arrangements and possibilities of increasing dynamics
efficiency in the sector, observing both the cases and the
exercises chosen in agent-based modelling (ABM).