The subnational links between oil wealth and armed conflict in Colombia
The main objective of this paper is to provide localized evidence about the mechanisms that may link oil wealth with the use of armed force against civilians by non-state armed groups in Colombia. Violence is studied in all three of the standard dimensions: onset, duration and intensity. This paper reports evidence on a subnational variant of a mechanism termed by the literature state-as-target.
‘Reporting of the refugee crisis and the AfD in Germany’
Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva
Free, Open, Peaceful and Secure: Applying the UK's New 'Fusion Doctrine' in Cyberspace
The 2015 National Cyber Security Strategy describes the UK Government’s ambition to foster a cyberspace which is free, open, peaceful and secure. However, the pace, scale, and complexity of the cyber-threat poses a constant challenge for states' understanding and response. HM Government faces the key challenge of how respond to state and non-state actors who do not adhere to the same values, doing so in concert with allies, and in a manner that guarantees a cyberspace that supports UK prosperity and security.
North Korea's Hidden Revolution
One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government’s sealed informational borders. Baek will describe how information has been illicitly flowing into North Korea, and what kinds of impact this unprecedented access to foreign information is having on North Korean citizens’ social and political attitudes towards the regime and each other.
Are International Institutions Obsolete?
OxPeace Tenth Annual Day-Conference - The Business of Peace: Business and Economics in Peacebuilding
OxPeace invites you to its Tenth Annual Day-Conference:
The Business of Peace: Business and Economics in Peacebuilding
Saturday 12th May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term), St John's College, Oxford
Arrival from 09.00, first Plenary 09.30, Conference closes 17.30
With Conference Dinner on Friday, 11th May at Kellogg College
Dinner speaker: Steve Kenzie, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network UK
Registrations: contact Conference Organiser, Jeremy Cunningham: Cunningham.jeremy@gmail.com
Outline Conference Programme, Saturday 12th May 2018
The Business of Peace: Business and Economics in Peacebuilding
Saturday 12th May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term), St John's College, Oxford
Arrival from 09.00, first Plenary 09.30, Conference closes 17.30
With Conference Dinner on Friday, 11th May at Kellogg College
Dinner speaker: Steve Kenzie, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network UK
Registrations: contact Conference Organiser, Jeremy Cunningham: Cunningham.jeremy@gmail.com
Outline Conference Programme, Saturday 12th May 2018
‘Online disinformation: what do we know, what can we do?’
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Meera Selva, David Levy, Andrew Dilnot
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Meera Selva, David Levy, Andrew Dilnot
Shakespeare, violence and war
•Ariel Colonomos, Sciences Po Paris: Henry V and luck
•Theodor Meron, UN International Criminal Tribunals: Henry V, War and Just War
•Elizabeth Frazer, DPIR: Coriolanus, political and military power
•Theodor Meron, UN International Criminal Tribunals: Henry V, War and Just War
•Elizabeth Frazer, DPIR: Coriolanus, political and military power