The New Era of Digital Diplomacy: The Future of AI and the Metaverse for International Relations

In our rapidly evolving digital world, the realms of diplomacy and peacebuilding are experiencing transformative changes, guided by advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and other emerging technologies. This session will offer an insightful exploration into how these technologies are being integrated into global diplomacy efforts and peace initiatives.

Nawara Alaboud

I am reading for a DPhil in Politics at University College. Prior to joining Oxford, I completed a BA in Ethics and Politics at Bard College Berlin, with a year of study abroad at Sciences Po's Euro-American Campus.

My academic interests revolve around violent conflict, social movements and political economy of development in the MENA region. My current research focuses on the political trajectories that countries take in the aftermath of civil wars and the social and political dynamics that drive them.

My MPhil degree is funded by the Rhodes Scholarship.

Panel Discussion: 'The great carbon market debate: is it over for offsetting?'

Critics and proponents of offsetting agree: achieving global net zero emissions is essential. But how we get there is up for debate.

Once hailed as a key solution to help individuals, organisations and governments achieve net zero emissions, offsetting approaches, and the carbon market underpinning them, have been plagued by bad actors, bad credits, and bad press.

Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet'

We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.

But in this talk, data scientist Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet will discuss with Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School, that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges.

The inequality of wealth

Wealth inequality has been rising for the last forty years and today the richest 10% of household hold 43% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 50% under a tenth.

There is evidence that high inequality has multiple negative consequences for individuals and societies, and possibly undermines democracy itself.

Centralisation, state intervention and the redistribution of power in energy markets

State intervention in the energy sector has become increasingly evident, even in the most liberal arrangement of electricity markets –including in the UK. However, the literature treats these as marginal interventions to provide incentives or reduce business risks. This presentation will argue that the role of state intervention is more structural that just intervention on price signals.
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