OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Climate change, ice, and the oceans' invisible forest
Professor Heather Bouman (Oxford) presents 'Climate change, ice, and the oceans' invisible forest' at the OxPeace 2019 conference.
After the Abolition of Slavery and Colonialism, War as a Social Institution: The Role of England
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About this Episode
A plenary session from the 'Building Peace' conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Professor Johan Galtung - Norwegian sociologist and 'father' of academic peace studies - offers a contextual example of applied peace studies. Professor Galtung is the Co-Director of the Transcent Research Institute, which he co-founded in 1993 after founding of the Oslo-based International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in 1959 and serving as a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Oslo University from 1969-1978.
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