20 Years of Multi-Partyism in Kenya (African Studies Seminar)

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A roundtable discussion examining the current state of Kenyan politics, twenty years after it changed to a multi-party state.

The change to multi-partyism in Kenya in the early 1990s brought with it the hope of significant developments for the East African country. This roundtable discussion examines, through presentations by scholars, a former Kenyan official, a journalist, and Great Britain's former ambassador to Kenya, what changes multi-partyism has had on Kenya. The panel includes (in order of presentation): Gabrielle Lynch, Leigh Gardner, Lillian Cherotich, Sir Edward Clay, Michela Wrong, and John Githongo. The round-table is moderated by David Anderson. [African Studies Centre, Oxford. http://www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk]

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African Studies Centre

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Department: Centre for African Studies

Date Added: 25/01/2011

Duration: 01:30:32

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St Anne's College

St Anne's stands out in Oxford as a college that is down to earth, modern, informal and open to the world. It also has a determined sense of its academic purpose.
It began in 1879 offering a university education to women who otherwise would have found it unaffordable. It became a full College of the University in 1952. It has taken both men and women since 1979, and is now one of Oxford's largest colleges, with over 400 undergraduates and 150 graduates.

Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar

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Uehiro Oxford Institute

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Dr Adrian Walsh delivers a St Cross College Lecture entitled Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony.

It is a commonplace that the good life and the good society are intimately interconnected. In order to maximize our chances of living well, we require a well-ordered polity; and this is one of the fundamental challenges of politics. Typically we regard a good society as, amongst other things, a society that has well designed institutions. One crucial aspect of the 'design challenge' concerns itself with the relationship between individual virtue and such political institutions. Is it is in general a good idea to prefer those institutions that demand from participating individuals a virtue-rich input? [...]

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Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute

Date Added: 24/01/2011

Duration: 01:01:06

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Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador: Post-Transistional Justice

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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Part of the Oxford Transistional Justice Seminar Series. Recorded 30th November 2010.

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 24/01/2011

Duration: 00:57:06

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A Fighting Chance or Fighting Dirty? Michael Gross meets the Spartans

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Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

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Part of the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict/Changing Character of War program seminar series looking into the Ethics of war and violence.

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 24/01/2011

Duration: 00:37:55

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RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Refugees, Exiles and other Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire

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This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's first Wednesday Public Seminar of Hilary Term 2011.

This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's first Wednesday Public Seminar of Hilary Term 2011, which was on Wednesday 19th January 2011 at Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Dr Dawn Chatty, spoke on the subject of Refugees, Exiles and other Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire.

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 21/01/2011

Duration: 00:53:04

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Is the fiscal crisis forcing a rethink of our intergenerational compact with the elderly?

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Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2011

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Professor Peter Heller (John Hopkins University) on 'Is the fiscal crisis forcing a rethink of our intergenerational compact with the elderly?'.

As part of the Oxford Martin School's Seminar Series on Intergenerational Justice, Professor Peter S. Heller of the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University will examine whether the time-honored compact of an intergenerational sharing of the burden of an elderly population is in need of being revisited in the wake of the current fiscal crisis. Is the aging of the population akin to climate change - a looming burden on future generations that current young and working-age generations should seek to limit, even at its own future expense? Or do future young and working-age generations have an obligation to support the future elderly? Is the current financial crisis sufficient cause for a revisiting of a social compact that has such long antecedents? Or is it simply a convenient pretext for coming to grips with the oncoming major shift in the age structure of populations that will force such a revisiting?

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Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2011

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Department: Oxford Martin School

Date Added: 21/01/2011

Duration: 00:36:57

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Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2011

What are the long-term consequences of decisions we make today, and to what extent should the interests of future generations be taken into account? There is a wide range of public policy challenges that require us to provide some sort of answer to these questions.

This interdisciplinary seminar series brings together academics and experts to address the implications of critical questions arising from ideas of intergenerational justice. Speakers will consider different areas of public policy and ethical debate, including climate change, sustainability and fiscal strategies for population ageing. Even with broad agreement that we should consider the interests of future generations in our collective decision-making, there is plenty of room for argument and debate about detailed application to different cases and circumstances.

Using Science to Enhance Root Function in Crops

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Botanic Garden

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Part of the Future of Crops Lecture Series held at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.

Enhancing root function offers great promise in the development of sustainable crops. This lecture will highlight the critical role played by roots in nutrient uptake and review the most recent scientific breakthroughs in this area. The future application of technologies based on these discoveries will be central to enhancing crop productivity in the forthcoming agricultural revolution.

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Department: Botanic Garden

Date Added: 19/01/2011

Duration: 01:06:04

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The OneOak Project:using science and art to revive Britain's wood culture

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Part of the Future of Crops lecture series delivered at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.

Trees, woodlands and their product, wood, surround our lives. In Britain today, people that access or connect with woodlands do so through a society that cherishes the beauty of the treescape and the wildlife it supports. A new dawn is breaking for forestry. Can we manage forests for carbon, grow fibre for wood heat and energy, and adapt to climate change, while continuing to meet existing objectives from UK forests? The forestry sector needs to engage with society. The Sylva Foundation's OneOak project aims to do this through science and art, focussing on the full life story of one oak tree.

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