The Institute for Economics and Peace will be releasing the 11th edition of its Global Peace Index. Is the world becoming more or less peaceful? The 2017 report provides the rankings of 163 countries according to levels of societal safety and security, militarisation, and ongoing conflict.
Steve Killelea, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace, will present the findings of the 2017 Index. The Bishop of Derby, Lord Browne and Professor Richard Caplan will also speak.

Rothermere Institute American Politics Graduate Seminar

Local ownership principle is based on the political rationality of interveners and operationalised as a responsibilisation of locals for externally designed objectives. This gives rise to various forms of local resistance that ultimately undermine international efforts to achieve the local buy-in. I illustrate my arguments with examples from the EU Regional Maritime Capacity Building Mission in the Horn of Africa (EUCAP Nestor) and the EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories (EUPOL Copps).
Light sandwich lunch provided.

What is the role of memories for the expansion of international society? By drawing on the English School approach to International Relations this edited volume argues that the memories of empire and suzerainty are key to understanding sociological aspects of the expansion of anarchical society. The expert contributors adopt a socio-historic conceptualization of entry into international society, aiming to move beyond the legalist analysis, and also explore the impact of identity-constructions and collective memories on the expansion of international society.

Since the early 1800s, epidemiologists have been aware of socioeconomic differences in health and illness. But it is only in the last twenty years or so that, across western Europe, politicians have taken up the issue of health inequalities as a way or reframing the issue of social inequality more broadly. In the book project on which this talk draws, I show that shifting from economic to medical framings of inequality in political discourse leads to policies that make it harder to reduce either health inequalities or the socioeconomic inequalities that are their fundamental causes.