The Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)

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The provision of life-saving assistance to people affected by armed conflict lies at the heart of humanitarian actors’ operations...

and the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 lay down rules regulating humanitarian relief operations. Despite this, until recently, this area of international humanitarian law has received limited attention, possibly because challenges in implementing relief operations tend to be operational rather than legal in nature. In 2013, in response to the refusal of some belligerents to allow relief to reach people in extreme need, the United Nations Secretary-General requested the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to examine the relevant rules and consider options for guidance. In turn, OCHA commissioned the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford to convene a series of consultation of legal experts. These led to the elaboration of the Oxford Guidelines on the Law Regulating Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict: a document that restates existing law, and clarifies areas of uncertainty. It considers key elements of this area of law, including the question of whose consent is required to conduct relief operations; the circumstances in which withholding consent would be arbitrary; the rules on the implementation of relief operations; and the consequences of unlawful impeding of relief operations.

The Guidance can be assessed at the following link: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/oxford-guidance-law-relating-humanitarian-relief-operations-situations-armed-conflict

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)

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Dapo Akande

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard

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Geneva Convention

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Department: Faculty of Law

Date Added: 05/12/2017

Duration: 00:46:08

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Compositional Creativity: Some Principles for Talking to Computers

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International Conference on Functional Programming 2017

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Chris Martens (North Carolina State University, United States) gives the first talk in the ICFP conference.

Generativity is an increasingly popular and useful concept, referring to a machine's ability to respond to user input with new constructions not foreseen by the programmer. Yet increasingly, people treat computational systems as unknowable black-box systems, writing off the possibility of forming mental models that allow a collaborative relationship between human insight and fast computation. Test phrase here.

I argue for the efficacy of transparent, compositional semantics for collaborating with virtual agents and deriving insights from system models. Having built systems based on automated reasoning for linear logic and epistemic modal logic, we can formalize notions of belief, intention, and action, in order to create virtual agents that behave in ways that humans can reason about based on intuitions about goal-driven behavior. For example, some of Grice's maxims of conversation can be seen as derivable consequences of these principles. Ongoing work includes applying these formalisms to the tasks of navigating unknown rule systems in virtual environments, social skills training, and generative storytelling.

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International Conference on Functional Programming 2017

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Department: Department of Computer Science

Date Added: 05/12/2017

Duration: 00:54:17

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Empire of Things: A New History of Humans and Their Stuff

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Emden History Lectures

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Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) sketches the history of consumption to the present day, and examines the historical dynamics that have shaped our material lifestyles.

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Emden History Lectures

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Department: St Edmund Hall

Date Added: 04/12/2017

Duration: 00:53:34

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Emden History Lectures

The Emden Lecture is an annual event at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, given by a guest historian and pitched at a non-specialist audience. It is named in honour of A.B. Emden, a distinguished medievalist and historian of universities who was Principal of St Edmund Hall from 1929 to 1951.

What’s happening to our news?

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Nic Newman, research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 04/12/2017

Duration: 00:56:47

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Theresa May

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Prime Ministers and Europe since Thatcher - The Hertford lectures

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Steve Richards (Journalist and Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster), gives the final talk in The Hertford Lecture Series on the challenge Theresa May has on delivering Brexit.

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Prime Ministers and Europe since Thatcher - The Hertford lectures

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Department: Hertford College

Date Added: 04/12/2017

Duration: 01:19:19

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The evolution of digital journalism and tapping into tech for story-telling

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Lianna Brinded, Europe editor at Quartz, gives a talk as part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 04/12/2017

Duration: 00:34:21

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David Cameron

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Prime Ministers and Europe since Thatcher - The Hertford lectures

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Sir Ivan Rogers (UK Permanent Representative to the European Union, 2013-17), gives a talk on David Cameron's relationship to the EU and what lead up to the Brexit referendum.

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Prime Ministers and Europe since Thatcher - The Hertford lectures

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Department: Hertford College

Date Added: 04/12/2017

Duration: 01:38:12

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Under pressure: the global decline in media freedom

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive, Index on Censorship gives a talk for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 01/12/2017

Duration: 00:20:50

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Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation - Panel discussion

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Panel discussion looking at Lucy Kueng's report 'Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation'.

'Legacy media need to put as much emphasis on transforming their organisations as they do transforming their content' – this is the premise underlying 'Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation', a new research report by Lucy Kueng, Google Digital News Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute.

How are media firms approaching the challenges of increasing agility, merging the cultures of journalism and tech, and handling the ceaseless stream of ‘shiny new things’, ranging from AR to Alexa? When should they learn from Silicon Valley, and when should they turn away?

Through deep research at companies including The Washington Post, Axel Springer, Schibsted, Vox, the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, Le Monde, El Pais, Dagens Nyheter and The Guardian, this report identifies best practice in organisational transformation. Combining themes such as agility, strategy, culture management, the integration of tech and leadership, it presents a roadmap for change in the face of digital disruption.

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