The Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict’s Programme for International Peace and Security are pleased to welcome you to a discussion of Judge Kriangsak Kittichaisaree’s forthcoming book The Rohingya, Justice and International Law (Routledge 2021).

Judge Kriangsak Kittichaisaree will be joined by discussants Ambassador Stephen Rapp (Blavatnik School of Government) and Dr Priya Pillai (Asia Justice Coalition).

Book Synopsis

All Souls holds an exam every autumn for students who have recently graduated from, or are registered for a higher degree at, the University of Oxford. Candidates may choose to sit papers in Classics, Economics, English Literature, History, Law, Philosophy or Politics, and there is also a General component. The Fellowship lasts for seven years. Those elected receive a generous stipend, accommodation and career support, and may either choose to pursue an academic career, or to contribute to wider academic life while pursuing a non-academic career.

We are honored to be welcoming two renowned historians, Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan, who will help us uncover the details and significance of this historic event, and what it can tell us about Syrian politics and society.

Dr. Sami Moubayed is an author, historian and former scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center. Dr. Moubayed is a co-founder of the Syrian Studies Center at St Andrews University and founding chairman of the Damascus History Foundation.

This article asks what it takes to belong among the “cosmopolitan elite” in international society.
With a reflexive sociological sensibility, it examines the ways in which diplomats of the Indian
Foreign Service have sought to secure recognition and equal standing in international society by
inhabiting a cosmopolitan habitus. Instead of analysing cosmopolitanism in the conventional
register of political theory as an egalitarian international ethic, the article considers “actually

The 'Global Britain' foreign policy concept puts forward an ambitious strategy that carves out a position on the global stage for the United Kingdom post-Brexit. However, development policy does not appear to play a central role in this strategy, as illustrated by the Government's most recent development budgets.

Many theologians addressing these questions of politics and the common good begin their discussion with St. Augustine’s City of God. This lecture argues that there is a trap in taking this starting point, a trap that Aquinas avoided by combining his reading of Augustine, the Theologian, with a reading of the Philosopher Aristotle. It suggests a reworking of Augustine’s analysis to retain the theological benefit of his ideas for understanding politics today.

This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'Political economy of European climate action', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies Centre.

Speaker: Daniel Hardy (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Charles Enoch (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Discussants: Fatos Koc (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)), Martin Ellison (Nuffield College, Oxford)