Reform is a common theme in Greek political discourse. However, its content remains vague and controversial. Our interventions will discuss reforms in Greece from the point of view of “significant departures from the status quo”. Such a perspective refers to the extent to which reforms address deeper policy issues and challenge existing institutional arrangements in a substantial way. Examples of reforms changing Greece are presented in the fields of public administration, and the business environment. We further discuss some of the reform challenges that lie ahead.

Seminar series: Rupture and Reconciliation in Contexts of Displacement

Convened by Cory Rodgers (Oxford University) and Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University).

Campion Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre present a seven-part seminar series on reconciliation in the contexts of displacement

With 70% of the Earth’s surface covered by the seas and oceans but most of that space beyond the territory of states, there is something of a jurisdictional vacuum when it comes to Human Rights, which states are under an obligation to provide for, to protect and to fulfil. Who monitors compliance with Human Rights standards at sea? Who has responsibility for enforcing those standards? How great a problem is this and what are the prospects for the establishment of the ‘rule of law’ at sea?

This paper compares a national multidimensional poverty index (MPI) with child disaggregation of that same MPI, and then with an individual-level child MPI, which uses age-specific indicators covering the cycle of childhood, to assess the convergence and value-added of these different measurement approaches empirically. It focuses on Punjab Province in Pakistan. In 2016, the Government of Pakistan launched an official national MPI, covering 15 indicators across the dimensions of education, health, and standard of living, and provided estimations disaggregated to the district level.

Abstract:

What would have to happen for this generation to live within its environmental means and to bequeath to the next generation a set of assets at least as good as it inherited?

What would the sustainable economy look like? How do we stop climate change and biodiversity loss?

This seminar will take the form of a dialogue between Robin Cohen and Manolis Pratsinakis, chaired by Renée Hirschon. The story starts with an obscure scholarly debate about whether the expression 'the Greek Diaspora' can be applied to the early colonies in southern Italy and Sicily (Magna Graecia) or (for example) the settlements around the Black Sea. A 'war of the footnotes' emerged as the use of this denotation was vigorously contested by religious scholars and those interested in historical semantics.