After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy
An Incomplete Peace: State Violence and Strategies of Resilience in Colombia
Recoding Revolutions Relationally
TEL Programme
Sexual violence during South Sudan’s Juba massacre: victims, perpetration, and functions
TEL Speaker Series on Conflict and Violence
Reimagining Peace in the Middle East in a Changing World Order, a Jordanian perspective
The international system is undergoing profound transformation as global power dynamics shift. In this changing world order, traditional frameworks for addressing regional conflicts are being challenged. Despite the rapid and shifting changes in the global order, conflict in the Middle East has remained largely unchanged for decades, the factors fueling this conflict remain deeply entrenched and continue to worsen day by day, due to an international system that is unable to address the underlying causes.
Power Preponderance, Assurance, and War
Join us for an academic talk by Professor Alexandre Debs which discusses his ongoing academic research. In this talk, Professor Debs presents arguments from his working paper which asks: how could power imbalance lead to war? Some argue that power preponderance causes war by undermining the credibility of assurances. Others contend instead that non-credible assurances are inconsequential, fueling future negotiations without affecting the conditions for war.
Limit to Win It: A Typology of Competitive Arms Control Practices
Arms control is traditionally conceptualized as a cooperative undertaking, reducing risk and obviating the need for wasteful expenditure. But arms control can also be employed for competitive ends, shaping competition in ways that asymmetrically advantage certain parties. While previous literature has identified individual examples of competitive arms control within certain cases, the full range of competitive arms control practices has not been assessed comprehensively.
Just War, Human Augmentation and Doctors Designing Weapons
Professor Rickard is a surgeon in the Royal Navy and Emeritus Professor of Military Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a chair that has been continually appointed since the Crimean War. His PhD was in a bioengineering topic related to microvascular surgery and as Professor of Military Surgery he has supervised doctorate students in topics as diverse as the subcellular response to blast and the ethics of live tissue training. Clinically, he specialises in musculoskeletal cancer surgery and in trauma reconstruction.
The Illusion of War at the Speed of Light: The Reality of Decision-Making and Command and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Please note the earlier start time.
Sarah Chapman Trim is the Royal Air Force Slessor Fellow at SST-CCW. She is a Military Psychologist focused on the readiness to fight.