Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict: Recent Episodes
Oxford University
Podcasts of seminars and events held at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford.
Professor Antonio Donini (Tufts University) gives a talk on 7th November 2012. This is a Oxford Humanitarian Group Event.
Professor Greg Johnson, Pacific Lutheran University gives a talk on 1st May 2013. This is a Oxford Humanitarian Group Event.
Urban Reichhold (Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin) gives a talk on 4th March 2012. This is an Oxford Humanitarian Group Event.
Elisabeth Decrey-Warner (President, Geneva Call), gives a talk on 25th Feb 2012. This is an Oxford Humanitarian Group Event.
Dr Marcia Byrom Hartwell (Visiting Scholar, United States Institute of Peace, (USIP) Washington DC) gives a talk for the Oxford Humanitarian Group seminar series.
Professor Deen Chatterjee gives a talk for the ELAC semianar series on 21st May 2013. With Professor Cheyney Ryan and Dr David Rodin.
Alice Obrecht (One World Trust) and Philip Tamminga (DARA) give a talk for Oxford Humanitarian Group/ELAC seminar series. Introduced by Hugo Slim.
Director of Liberal Way of War Program Professor Alan Cromartie gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar series on 9th October 2012. Introduced by Dr Robert Johnson.
25 April 2013, Special lecture co-hosted by ELAC, the new Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations and the Oxford Humanitarian Group by Yves Daccord (Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC).
Professor Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) with Dr Janina Dill and Dr Hugo Slim (ELAC, Oxford) discuss the Just War theory for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series on 8th February 2013.
Dr Aidan Hehir (Director of the Security and International Relations Programme, University of Westminster) and Dr Ann-Christin Raschdorf (Former Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2011), are chaired by Professor Jennifer Welsh on 9th November 2012.
25 Jan 2013, ELAC/Oxford Martin HRFG Programme Discussion Event with Professors David J. Luban, Jeremy Waldron and Henry Shue, chaired by Dr David Rodin.
Professor Hugh White (Professor of Strategic Studies, Australian National University) on 30 Oct 2012, this talk is for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series.
Professor Sir Adam Roberts (President, British Academy and Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 23 Oct 2012.
Cdre Keith Winstanley (CCW RN Hudson Fellow) and Cdr Tracy Vincent (CCW US Navy Hudson Fellow give talks for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 12 June 2012. Introduced by Dr Jan Lemnitzer.
Dr Kristian Søby Kristensen (Copenhagen/ CCW Visiting Fellow) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 6 June 2012.
Professor Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, King's College London, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series.
ELAC/CCW Seminar Series podcast with Professor Cheyney Ryan (Oregon/ ELAC Visiting Fellow) on 22 May 2012.
ELAC Panel Discussion with Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Janina Dill and Dapo Akande (ELAC)on 20th May 2012.
Professor Nigel Biggar (Oxford), Professor Tony Coady (CAPPE) and Dr Rama Mani (Oxford) discuss the issue of religion in war and peace as part of the ELAC/CCW lecture series. Moderated by Jennifer Welsh (Oxford).
Dr Shlomit Wallerstein (Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 8th May 2012. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.
Professor Alan Kuperman (Texas) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 24th April 2012.
Professor Daniel Joyner (University of Alabama School of Law) gievs a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 6th March 2012. Introduced by Professor Dapo Akande.
Olav Ofstad (ELAC Visiting Fellow 2011), gives a talk for the ELAC Discussion Event on 28 Feb 2012.
Professor Cecile Fabre (Fellow in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC seminar series on 14th February 2012.
Professor Amos N. Guiora (University of Utah) with respondent Professor Jeremy Waldron (New York University School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford) give a talk for the ELAC seminar series on 6 Feb 2012.
Professor Fernando Teson (Florida State University College of Law) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 31 Jan 2012. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.
Professor Leonard Smith (Oberlin) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 24 Jan 2012.
Dr Hugo Slim (Visiting Fellow, ELAC) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed conflict seminar series on 17 Jan 2012.
Professor George Lucas (United States Naval Academy), gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 22 Nov 2011.
Professor Uwe Steinhoff (University of Hong Kong) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar series on 9th Nov 2011.
Professor Michael Boylan (Marymount) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict/Changing Character of War Seminar Series.
Professor Chandra Sriram (SOAS) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict/Changing Character of War Seminar Series. Introduced by Jennifer Welsh (Oxford).
Commodore Steve Jermy (Royal Navy) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Josh Phillips, journalist, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Panel discussion from the oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict on The Legacy of 9/11.
Dr Tamir Meisels, Tel Aviv University, gives a seminar for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series.
Dr John Mackinlay (King's College London) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW lunchtime seminar series.
Dr Seth Lazar (Research Associate, ELAC, Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 7th June 2011.
Tom Smith (QEH, Oxford), gives a talk for the ELAC/Oxford Humanitarian Group seminar series on 6th June 2011. Introduced by Urvashi Aneja.
Camille Grand (Director Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique (FRS, Paris) gives a talk for the ELAC/OHG (Oxford Humanitarian Group) on 31st May 2011.
Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Dr Cheyney Ryan and Dapo Akande (ELAC) debate the recent NATO led mission in Libya.
Please note this is only a partial recording, we apologise for the inconvenience. William F. Owen (Cranfield Defence and Security, UK Defence Academy) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on.
Professor Brad Roth, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Wayne State, Detroit, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 17th May 2011. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.
Colonel Duncan Barley, British Army (Retired) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 10th May 2011.
Professor Cecile Fabre, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford University, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW lunchtime seminar series on the 3rd May, 2011. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.
Jon Bennet, Director of Oxford Development Consultants, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar series on 7th March 2011. An Oxford Humanitarian Group Event. Introduced by Urvashi Aneja.
Nancy Sherman, University of Glasgow, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series, in this, she talks about the philosophical concept of guilt in war. Introduced by Hew Strachan.
Markus Wagner, Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School, gives a talk for the 2011 Hilary term ELAC/CCW seminar series.
Dr Hugo Slim, Visiting Fellow in the department of politics and international relations, gives a talk for the 2011 Hilary term ELAC/CCW seminar series on armed conflict.
Dr Paul Cornish (Chatham House) gives a talk for the Hiliary Term 2011 ELAC/CCW seminar series. Please note: this is only a partial recording. we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.
Professor Ian Clark and Professor Christian Reus-Smit give a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict 2011 Hilary Term seminar series.
Part of the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict/Changing Character of War program seminar series looking into the Ethics of war and violence.
Special seminar from the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) given by Professor Jay Gordan (Fairfield University with Professor David Miller (Oxford).
Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Dr. Gerhard Overland (Oslo/ Melbourne), gives his paper followed by a discussion.
Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Professor Yitzhak Benbaji, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, gives his paper followed by a discussion.
Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010.Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, gives his paper followed by a discussion.
Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Lecturer in Law, Monash University, Patrick Emerton gives his paper followed by a discussion.
Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Professor of Law and Jurisprudence at UC Berkeley gives his paper followed by a discussion.
Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University Jeff McMahan gives his paper followed by a discussion.
Dr Antonios Tzanakopoulos (University of Glasgow) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series. Delivered on the 9th November 2010.
Professor Geir Lundestad gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on war and armed conflict.
Colonel Adam Finlay, CCW Visiting Fellow, delivers an ELAC/CCW Seminar on the first Anglo-Afghan War of 1839 to 1842. Part of the ELAC/CCW seminar series.
Lecture delivered on the 19th of October 2010, part of the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on War and Armed Conflict. Delivered by Professor Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews). Introduced by Jennifer Welsh.
Dr David Rodin (ELAC), Wg Cdr Ash Mitchell (Defence Academy of the UK), Dapo Akande (ELAC and Law, Oxford) and Prof Henry Shue (Philosophy, Oxford) give a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Prof Jane Stromseth (Georgetown University) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series. With Dapo Akande (ELAC).
Prof Clive Jones (Leeds University) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Prof Toni Erskine (Aberystwyth University) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series. With Jennifer Welsh (ELAC).
Prof Robert Patman (Otago, New Zealand) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Anthony Dworkin (European Council on Foreign Relations) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Captain William Park (U.S. Navy Hudson Fellow, CCW Visiting Fellow and ELAC Research Associate) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Dr Antonio Giustozzi (LSE) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.
Jeremy Lack (Lawyer and Mediator, Etude Altenburger Switzerland) / Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield (Institute for the Future of the Mind, Oxford) give a seminar for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict with David Rodin.
Prof Gerry Simpson (LSE / University of Melbourne) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series on the 2nd of March 2010 with Dapo Akande.
Professor of Law at Warwick University Victor Tadros gives a talk for the ELAC Hilary Term 2010 seminar series. This series is co-hosted by the ELAC and the University of Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (CCW).
David Blagden, DPhil candidate in International Relations in Oxford, gives a talk for the ELAC Hilary Term 2010 seminar series. This series is co-hosted by the ELAC and the University of Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (CCW).
Dr Seth Lazar gives a talk for the ELAC Hilary Term 2010 seminar series. This series is co-hosted by the ELAC and the University of Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (CCW). Dapo Akande is the discussant.
Professor Michael Doyle gives a talk for the ELAC Hilary Term 2010 seminar series. This series is co-hosted by the ELAC and the University of Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (CCW).
Seminar given by the Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Martin Griffiths on the role played by private mediators in securing peace between warring factions and states in areas such as Africa and the Middle East.
In this informal roundtable discussion McMahan presents his recent work on proportionality and noncombatant immunity, with responses by philosophers from both sides of the current debate.
The "Cultural Heritage of All Mankind": Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Positive Laws of War.
Over 60 years ago the USA agreed to give up its autonomy over the use of force by signing the UN Charter. Prof. Hurd uses this case study to better understand how states use international rules and how that use remakes both the rules and the states. Over 60 years ago the United States agreed to give up its autonomy over the use of force by signing the United Nations Charter, which includes a ban on war in Article 2(4). The willing self-limit by a Great Power of its sovereignty over war decisions contradicts the realist expectation that states, especially strong ones, will enhance and guard their autonomy. It also presents a puzzle for rationalists and constructivists and their competing models of the relationship between state interests and international norms. These models suggest that states either follow their interests or follow norms which they have internalized. The former makes all behavior 'strategic' and the latter makes it norm-compliant and unconcerned with interests. Neither side can account behavior where decision-makers apparently believe genuinely in the rule but continued to think and act strategically around it. The U.S. position toward Article 2(4) is an example of this broad category in foreign policy. To understand such cases we must bridge the divide between norms and interests, and between rationalism and constructivism, by focusing on how states use international rules and how that use remakes both the rules and the states.
Prof. Homer-Dixon looks at systems displaying high levels of uncertainty. Using the example of climate change, he asks whether standard "management" approaches used by policymakers are enough or if we must find new approaches in times of uncertainty. Global financial, climate, energy, and food challenges exhibit similar characteristics - all emerge from systems exhibiting high levels of uncertainty, countless unknown unknowns, time lags, threshold effects, occasional chaotic behavior, and sometimes synchronized systemic failure (as we're now seeing in the financial system). In such systemic environments, standard "management" approaches to public policy and governance are severely handicapped. Specifically, systems with lots of uncertainty and inertia are notoriously hard to control: manager cannot effectively predict the system's future behavior, and they cannot quickly correct behavior they do not like. In the case of climate change, by the time policymakers find out that the climate dice have rolled against humankind, inertia could make conventional responses like carbon taxes and wind power inadequate. Planning humankind's response around what scientists currently think is the most likely outcome is therefore reckless. While we can hope for the best, we must lay plans to navigate the worst.
Prof. Allen Buchanan looks at the role of belief in ethics and pays particular attention to its role in armed conflict.
Prof. Thomas Hurka, Prof. Henry Shue, and Dr. David Rodin debate conflicting interpretations of proportionality and their relation to the laws of war.
Prof. Nicholas Wheeler looks at issues of trust in nuclear relations, asking what obstacles still lie in the path of US-Iranian nuclear relations.
Have individual rights transformed world politics? Prof. Reus-Smit challenges the circumscribed nature of this debate, arguing the relationship between individual rights and world politics has a longer history and is more fundamental than it suggests. Have individual rights transformed world politics? Debate on this question has focused to date on the efficacy, or lack thereof, of the international human rights regime. Prof. Reus-Smit challenges the circumscribed nature of this debate, arguing that the relationship between individual rights and world politics has a longer history and is more fundamental than it suggests. Individual rights, and the struggles they have informed and licensed, have played a critical role in the development of the international system itself. The present system has a distinctive structure of political agency: no polities or peoples lie outside its geographical reach, it is multiregional, and it is multicultural. This structure is the product of the system's expansion from an original kernel of nascent European sovereign states to encompass the globe, an expansion that occurred in a series of great waves: the most significant being those following the Peace of Westphalia, the collapse of the Spanish Empire, and post-1945 decolonization. These waves were the result of struggles for recognition, most immediately struggles by diverse polities for the recognition of their sovereign rights. Yet these struggles were dual in nature: struggles by polities for sovereign rights were driven by deeper struggles by individuals for the recognition civil and political rights. In each case, these dualist struggles undermined the legitimacy of empires and licensed the construction of sovereign states as their institutional replacements, steadily increasing the number states, regions, and cultures within the international system.
Prof. Nigel White gives a fascinating seminar looking at the issues surrounding institutional responsibility for private military contractors. Antonios Tzanakopoulos is the discussant.
Prof. Mervyn Frost (King's College, London) presents a seminar in which he explores the relationship between ethics and international relations within the context of armed conflict. The discussant is Dr. Christopher Bickerton (Oxford).
Prof. Henry Shue (Oxford) provides a moral reflection on international law by looking at the concept of proportional conduct in armed conflict. The discussant is Janina Dill (Oxford).
Prof. Graciana del Castillo discusses aspects of her book 'Rebuilding War-Torn States' (OUP 2008). The discussant is Dr. Dominik Zaum (University of Reading).
Dr. James Pattison (University of the West of England) presents a seminar on humanitarian intervention and the 'responsibility to protect'. The discussant is Seth Lazar (Oxford).