OxPeace (Oxford Network of Peace Studies) invites you to an intensive two-day (20 and 21 March, 09.30 to 17.30 each day) training workshop in international negotiation, mediation, and diplomacy, covering core concepts, lessons learned from the field and hands-on exercises. This year’s course will in particular focus on how to mediate conflict and negotiate with difficult actors, who resist agreements for mutual gain and disregard established international norms and principles.

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Dr. Joe Roman, University of Vermont.

The South-West Indian Ocean region is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change, facing high tropical cyclones, floods, and drought risks, among others. Serving as the World Bank Country Director for Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles since 2020, Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough brings a unique perspective and hands-on experience on supporting these countries in preparing for and responding to disasters small and large.

Five years on from the UK officially withdrawing from the EU, we try and separate the facts from the noise about what Brexit has meant for the UK, and ahead to what a post-Brexit economy and country mean under a new Labour government. Join our expert panel chaired by Professor Anand Menon, Director of UK in a Changing Europe, with the Institute for Government’s Director, Hannah White, and Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme invites you to the Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Join us to explore the implications of this pivotal election year worldwide for Taiwan and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region.

China Centre Talk + Taiwan Studies Seminar

China studies have long drawn inspiration from many disciplinary studies, such as those in sociology, anthropology and political sciences. Criminological research on China has started to take shape over the past two to three decades. So far, theories and concepts from criminology have rarely found their places in the field of China studies.

Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought (Sheila Byers):