Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa

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Domestic factors are vital to ensure States implement progressive women’s rights practices, including the establishment of specialised mechanisms (police forces, prosecutor offices, courts) for managing gender-based crimes.

Summary 

This book investigates post-conflict policing of violence against women, and explains why certain countries have institutionalised specialised mechanisms for dealing with gender-based violence crimes, and others have not.

Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices, and Politics

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Study argues that peacebuilding is hampered by the lack of effective means of assessing progress towards the achievement of a consolidated peace, and suggests ways to improve our monitoring and assessments of the quality of peace in the context of peacebuilding.

Key Policy Findings:

Every peacebuilding strategy is predicated on a conception of peace, whether implicit or explicit.  It can be as basic as the absen

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Panel Discussion with Josiah Ober: Ethics in AI with Aristotle

The Institute for Ethics in AI will bring together world-leading philosophers and other experts in the humanities with the technical developers and users of AI in academia, business and government. The ethics and governance of AI is an exceptionally vibrant area of research at Oxford and the Institute is an opportunity to take a bold leap forward from this platform.
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