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In Syria, the US ‘red line’ continues to shift
It takes more than rising civilian death tolls to prompt Western intervention in Syria writes Jennifer Welsh. Israeli air strikes on Syria in recent days have brought the varying interests of outside actors in this long-simmering conflict int... Read More »
The feminisation of migration: Are more women migrating?
The idea that there has been a shift in migration gender ratios causing a feminisation of migration flows that has characterised a new period of migration, has been widely proclaimed by scholars over the past two decades. I would argue that what h... Read More »
The politics of posterity: expert advice and long-term decision making
How can we overcome the chronic short-termism of our politics? Writing for the Guardian's Science Policy blog, Natalie Day calls for a new approach to long-range decision-making. Four months into the UK's coalition government, Nick Cle... Read More »
Overwhelming UN approval for first-ever treaty on global arms trade
Programme Co-ordinator of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations, Dr Gilles Giacca, closely followed the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty in New York. On Tuesday, 2 April 2013, after many years of ... Read More »
Planetary boundaries as millenarian prophesies
The idea that we are collectively on the brink of overstepping “planetary boundaries” that will render civilization unsustainable has been prominently propounded by a group of scholars around Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resil... Read More »
Kenya’s hopes for justice in the hands of the accused
Dr Serena Sharma has been conducting a case study on the Kenyan elections as part of her work helping to prevent atrocity crimes. In the shadow of violence following the 2007 Kenyan elections, she comments on the tensions arising from Kenya’... Read More »
Divided Nations
The growing disconnect between the problems that bind us and the countries that divide is the greatest threat to humanity. Each day we are confronted by mounting evidence of the yawning governance gap. Recently, British people have been surp... Read More »
Nano: avoiding toxic shock
How do you regulate for the unknown? In the field of nanotechnology this has become a crucial question. We can currently buy on the open market a variety of products using silver nanoparticles…but scientists have recently discovered the tox... Read More »
Climate control
As a lad poring over his ‘Boys’ Book of Science', Professor Steve Rayner, Co-Director of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme, was thrilled by the technological optimism which gave rise to visions of futuristic looking cities under ... Read More »
A game of risk
Garry Kasparov, the world’s greatest ever chess player, is a man who knows a lot about risk. “If you want to win you have to take risks…which means you can fail,” he told an audience of over 450 people at Oxford’s Ex... Read More »
The Secret Life of Plants
As we struggle to feed the world’s growing population is it ethically wrong not to use all the tools at our disposal to help increase food production? To help the world’s poorest out of poverty, does it not make sense for them to farm ... Read More »
Aspiring to a better life in a globalised world
Last month the International Migration Institute, Oxford, and PRIO, Oslo, convened an international workshop on ‘Aspirations and Capabilities in Migration Processes’. The workshop aimed to explore how we can increase our understanding ... Read More »
- Alexander Leveringhaus
- Alison Stibbe
- Andrew Pontzen
- Caspar Henderson
- Clare Heywood
- David Rodin
- Devi Sridhar
- Eric Beinhocker
- Gilles Giacca
- Gillian Petrokofsky
- Guy Houlsby
- Hein de Haas
- Hugo Slim
- Ian Goldin
- James Marrow
- Javier Lezaun
- Jennifer Welsh
- Julia Banfield
- Julian Savulescu
- Justin Bishop
- Kazem Rahimi
- Lucy Crittenden
- Maria Villares Varela
- Marian Dawkins
- Mathias Czaika
- Megan Lynagh
- Natalie Day
- Nigel Moore
- Oliver Bakewell
- Peter Taylor
- Phil Renforth
- Quentin Sattentau
- Rafaela Hillerbrand
- Richard Branson
- Richard Reschen
- Richard Willden
- Serena Sharma
- Sophie Hackford
- Steve Rayner
- Stuart Armstrong
- Sunetra Gupta
- Susan Curran
- Takafumi Nishino
- Tim Kruger
- Toby Ord
- Tom Aubrey-Fletcher