The "World Social Science Advanced Lecture" (No. 77), organized by the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (Fudan IAS) and Contemporary China Research Center at Fudan University, was held on Jan 08, 2024, at Fudan University. Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman, Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, recipient of Marcel Benoist Science Prize, and Head of Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich, gave a lecture entitled Computational Approaches to Conflict Research. The lecture was chaired by Prof. Sujian Guo, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Fudan IAS.

Prof. Guo warmly welcomed Prof. Cederman and introduced his research areas and achievements. Prof. Cederman expressed his gratitude for the invitation from Fudan IAS and said that it was his first time to come to China for academic exchanges and he felt honored to do so. Then he started to share his topic. The lecture mainly introduced the results of Prof. Cederman's team in using computational approaches to study the conflict process at the macro level, mainly divided into the first phase of Agent-based modeling and the second phase of data-driven spatial measurement approaches. Prof. Cederman explained and demonstrated these computational approaches based on his research on the civil war and discussed the development trend and future challenges of computational conflict research.

In the end, Prof. Guo chaired the Q&A session and then also made a brief comment on the lecture. He thanked Prof. Cederman for his informative sharing, believing that Prof. Cederman's research on conflict and computational approaches is a very important inspiration for the empirical research of the domestic social sciences, and will be one of the future directions of the domestic academy.