Contemporary debates about Artificial Intelligence and its adoption by societies are embedded––explicitly or implicitly––within assumptions about the relationship between technological and social progress or regression. Many of the current worries about the widespread adoption in society can be cast in terms of its potential effects being regressive. The potential for AI to fundamentally change society...
Marina Sharpe, Associate Professor of International Law at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, has written the first comprehensive account of how public international law governs humanitarian assistance across multiple contexts. Structured by humanitarian assistance contexts rather than legal regimes, and showing how international law applies in real-world operational settings, Sharpe examines how international law governs UN,...
This online Javeriana–Oxford seminar will bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss selected cases of the political use of religious symbolism in different contexts around the world. It will explore how religious symbols acquire political meanings, shape public imaginaries and identities, and illuminate the relationship between religion and political life. The seminar forms part of...