Can the analysis of common goods as presented in these lectures contribute to discussions of typical problems today? There is no simple deduction of solutions from an account of common goods. The issues call for regulation; regulation follows on debate within legislative assemblies; a wider political conversation is needed to sustain the focused debate. Review of experience in our societies in dealing with regulation, and de-regulation, points to urgent need for reform and revisioning if our political institutions are to support and serve the common good when dealing with current issues.

This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'Political economy of European climate action', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies Centre.

Speakers: Selwin Hart (United Nations) and Benito Muller (Environmental Change Institute, Oxford)

Chair: Hartmut Mayer (Director, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford) [TBC]

Discussant: Adrienne Cheasty (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

In this seminar Diego Nieto presents his PhD thesis on the disjuncture between young people’s experiences of war and their school curricula
+ Presenter: Dr. Diego Nieto Sáchica, Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Interculturales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali & PhD in Comparative, International and Development Education, University of Toronto

+ Discussant: Dr. Julia Paulson, Associate Professor in Education, Peace and Conflict, School of Education, University of Bristol

The political handling of conflict presupposes its own standards. These are less precise than the technical languages of law and economics, and there is a persistent danger that the political realm be colonized by the standards of legality or economic efficiency. This lecture explores the tension, relying on Aquinas’s account of law, and drawing on his analogical discussion of the many types of law to underline the importance of preserving a distinct realm of political reasonableness as a requirement of the common good.

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This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'European Institutional Architecture', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies Centre.

Presenters: Judith Clifton (University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain) and Daniel Diaz Fuentes (University of Cantabria; Oxford Department for International Development)
Co-presenters: Carlos Andrés Brando (Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración CESA in Bogota), David Howarth (University of Luxembourg) and Erika Kraemer-Mbula (University of Johannesburg)

OxPeace, jointly with the Conflict Resolution Society,
invites you to a webinar with Prof. Alex Bellamy, University of Queensland,
on 'Moral Restraint in War: Thinking about Its History'
Friday 4 June at 12:30 pm Oxford time (BST), on Zoom

This talk by Alex Bellamy, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland, introduces a new project on the history of moral restraint in war.

The Oxford Syria Society invites you to its last panel event of Trinity term: Toward Transitional Justice in Syria. For the past decade, the Syrian people have been subjected to unimaginable atrocities and abuses. In this discussion, we will hear from the Syrian leaders who are at the front on transitional justice issues through different mediums including the law, civil society, and film.

The recently published Dasgupta Review has made a strong call for the fundamental rebuilding of economic models in ways that inherently value Nature.

These are welcome findings, coming at a time when existing economic structures, extractive systems and patterns of consumption are eroding ecological resilience and exceeding planetary limits.