In recent years, efforts to integrate UN organizations and activities in the field, streamline decision making, improve communication, and strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation processes, implicitly acknowledged the challenges specific to complex operating environments. Management, as a field of study and of practice, attempts to do the same: limit unpredictability, anticipate crisis and response, improve efficiency, and measure and learn from the results to improve effectiveness. This report, and the seminar on which it is based, outlines the challenge of being “overmatched” by complexity, while offering suggestions for understanding and dealing with complex environments. Full report in PDF format (5.14 MB); Number of pages: 52p; Source: International Peace Institute (IPI) Publication date: Jul 2009.