This two-day conference is free to attend and will take place via Zoom webinar. It is organised by UCL's Constitution Unit, in collaboration with the Oxford Constitutional Studies Forum, the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, and UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE).

What are the current challenges facing UN peacekeeping? How can researchers and policymakers best join forces do address these?

Join us for an informal discussion with Dr John Cockell, who is visiting Oxford from the UN peacekeeping operation in Mali, to learn how research shapes peacekeeping policy and practice.

William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuściński award-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019, and shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, the Tata Book of the Year (Non-fiction) and the Historical Writers Association Book Award 2020.

This event explores what prospects for UN Reform exist in light of the Ukraine War and with the constraint of a security council that is unlikely to change in the short term. All three speakers have extensive experience working on this issue in the spheres of academia, policy, and practice.

A wine reception will follow.

About our speakers:

A mini-workshop which may be of interest to anyone working on the ethics of behavioural influence (e.g., nudging), algorithms in the criminal justice system, or discrimination. Please get in touch if you would like to read the papers beforehand (recommended), attend in person (so that we have a sense of numbers for the catered lunch), or receive a Zoom link to join online.
9.45 am:
Welcome tea / coffee

10 am – 11 am:
Professor Tom Douglas & Dr Gabriel De Marco (Oxford), ‘On the relationship between nudge, efficacy, and resistibility’

11 am – Noon: