The ICC Rohingya Case: Radical or Routine?

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series.

Myanmar's mass-atrocities against the Rohingya minority, qualified by UN sources as a genocide, is one of the most pressing accountability challenges of our time. This has resulted in a mass-exodus of up to 1 million refugees in neighbouring Bangladesh with harrowing stories of violence. Given the failure of the UN Security Council to make a Chapter VII referral to the ICC, what options are available for eradicating impunity?

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Payam Akhavan

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criminal law

international criminal law

Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 00:33:36

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International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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Dr Nicola Palmer analyzes the role that international criminal law in the extradition, deportation or domestic prosecution of Rwandan nationals.

This paper draws on an independently generated dataset of 120 cases concerning 100 Rwandan nationals decided in 20 countries around the world. This dataset enables an analysis of the role that international criminal law is playing in their extradition, deportation or domestic prosecution. It argues that the differences in legal reasoning across these cases are underpinned by the different types of expressive work done by these legal proceeding. These cases communicate not only an on-going commitment to recognising the universal wrong of genocide, but also more ambiguous messaging about what constitutes a fair trial in Rwanda, who constitutes a ‘criminal migrant’ and, to a Rwandan audience, the transnational penal reach of the Rwandan state.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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Nicola Palmer

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criminal law

border control

international criminal law

Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 00:49:51

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The Gut-Brain Connection

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Diseases in Dialogue

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Why is digestive health so central to our understanding of who we are? How has this changed since the nineteenth century? How did Victorians perceive the gut-brain connection? What does science tell us now?

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diseases of modern life

gut microbiome

medical sciences division

Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 24/06/2019

Duration: 00:26:05

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A Networked Age

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Diseases in Dialogue

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What does it means to live in a networked age? Was the electric telegraph a forerunner of the internet? Have the benefits of new means of communication been universal? Is the long-awaited ‘global village’ still on the horizon?

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oxford internet institute

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telegraph

Victorians

torch network

Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 24/06/2019

Duration: 00:36:10

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Surgical Consent

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Diseases in Dialogue

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How has the relationship between doctor and patient changed since the nineteenth century? Did Victorian surgeons take their patients’ wishes seriously? How have the regulations surrounding surgical consent changed?

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oxford english faculty

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nuffield department of medicine

torch network

diseases of modern life

Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 24/06/2019

Duration: 00:28:54

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Social media, democracy and dissent in Sri Lanka

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Meera Selva, Director of the Reuters Institute Journalism Fellowship Programme, addresses our closing seminar of the term with a presentation on the media situation in Sri Lanka.

Attacks on journalists are – when they happen – shockingly brutal. News coverage tends not to cross socio-economic and ethnic/linguistic divides. Closing down social media in response to national crises invokes the law of unintended consequences.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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broadcasting atrocities

Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 24/06/2019

Duration: 00:24:13

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New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

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Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system.

The biosphere and econosphere are deeply interlinked and both are in crisis. Industrial, fossil-fuel based capitalism delivered major increases in living standards from the mid-18th through late-20th centuries, but at the cost of widespread ecosystem destruction, planetary climate change, and a variety of economic injustices.

Furthermore, over the past 40 years, the gains of growth have flowed almost exclusively to the top 10%, fuelling populist anger across many countries, endangering both democracy and global action on climate change.

This talk will argue that underlying the current dominant model of capitalism are a set of theories and ideologies that are outdated, unscientific, and morally unsound. New foundations can be built from modern understandings of human behaviour, complex systems science, and broad moral principles. By changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required for the policies and actions required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system.

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Date Added: 24/06/2019

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From pollution to solution: will China save the planet?

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Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe.

Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution, phasing out coal consumption and leading the development of a global system of green finance.

But as leading China environmental expert and author of Will China Save the Planet? Barbara Finamore will explain in this talk, it is anything but easy. The fundamental economic and political challenges that China faces in addressing its domestic environmental crisis threaten to derail its low-carbon energy transition. Yet there is reason for hope. China's leaders understand that transforming the world's second largest economy from one dependent on highly polluting heavy industry to one focused on clean energy, services and innovation is essential, not only to the future of the planet, but to China's own prosperity.

We will also hear from respondent Radhika Khosla, Research Director at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, Somerville College.

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Date Added: 24/06/2019

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Hirak: A roundtable on the Algerian protests

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Middle East Centre

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Roundtable discussion looking at the Algerian protests. With Michael Willis (St Antony’s College), James McDougall (Trinity College), Hicham Yezza (Ceasefire Magazine) and Latefa Guemar (University of East London).

Since late February, millions of Algerians have been taking to the streets of towns and cities across the country in massive, peaceful, weekly demonstrations. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose projected candidacy for a fifth term of office sparked the protests, has resigned. Two former Prime Ministers have been referred to the Supreme Court on corruption charges, several of the country’s most prominent businessmen close to Bouteflika’s circle have been arrested, and the last two chiefs of the internal security services are in jail. New presidential elections that were to be managed by a caretaker government have been cancelled in the face of popular pressure. This round table will be an opportunity to discuss these extraordinary, ongoing events, their origins and possible outcomes.
Speakers: Michael Willis (St Antony’s College), James McDougall (Trinity College), Hicham Yezza (Ceasefire Magazine), Latefa Guemar (University of East London).

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Department: Middle East Centre

Date Added: 20/06/2019

Duration: 00:56:48

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FMR 61 - From the Editors

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Ethics and displacement (Forced Migration Review 61)

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What moral principles guide our work? This issue debates many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images.

We each live according to our own personal code of ethics but what moral principles guide our work? The 19 feature theme articles in this issue debate many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images. Prepare to be enlightened, unsettled and challenged. This issue is being published in tribute to Barbara Harrell-Bond, founder of the Refugee Studies Centre and FMR, who died in July 2018. In a special collection of articles in this issue, authors discuss the legacy of Barbara Harrell-Bond – the impact she had and its relevance for our work today.

This issue of FMR will be available online and in print in English and Arabic: www.fmreview.org/ethics