We are delighted to announce that tickets are now live for the London University Diplomatic Summit 2026.

The Oxford Day will take place on Sunday 8th March at Exeter College (Main site), 11:00–16:00 and it is not one to miss.


This year’s theme is “Diplomacy Under Pressure.”

Our panels include:

Defence Diplomacy in a Fragmenting World

Humanitarian Diplomacy in an Age of Protracted Crisis

Diplomacy, Mediation and Peacemaking in the Current Geopolitical Landscape

Britain’s Global Role: Diplomacy, Development and Defence

OxMEND is delighted to invite you to a powerful and timely evening with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists Ghadir Hani and Dror Rubin.

🗓️ Saturday, 7 March
🕔 19:00
📍 Central Oxford
(Exact location will be shared with registered participants.)

Register here: https://forms.gle/DYFxoF59Czz7qCtg6

In a few generations, innovations in technology, industry, and the state brought us tremendous prosperity and progress. Now, amid the challenges of AI, autonomous weapons, and globe-spanning tech companies, and more, are humans losing control of their creations? Could the machines suppress our humanity, spirituality, and even replace the higher power?

This talk explains the impunity gap for the crime of aggression in the current international legal order. It recasts the genealogy of the crimes against peace to the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals through their liberal imperial context. It argues that international criminal law in the postwar order has been premised on the pursuit of liberal imperial peace. Revisiting Judge Pal’s dissent at the Tokyo Tribunal, it brings this genealogy to bear with the current questions of Ukraine and Palestine.