4 degrees of global warming: regional patterns and timing
Second presentation from session 1 of the 4degrees International Climate Conference.
The role of international transportation sectors in climate stabilization
Fourth presentation of session 9 of the 4 Degrees international climate conference
Bio-engineered Animals and Models of Human Disease
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Episode 85: Mythbusting International Refugee Law Law Professor Jim Hathaway untangles the complexity and dispels misconceptions surrounding refugees and their status under international law. With host Eric van Bemmel. Prof James C. Hathaway - Episode 91: Within Our Reach: Tim Costello on International Aid World Vision Australia chief Tim Costello tells us how international aid efforts have succeeded, where they've got to improve, and why aid cynics have got it wrong. With host Jennifer Cook. Tim Costello - Zero chance? Aiming for zero in weapons control War 2.0: Political Violence and New Media symposium (Day one) War 2.0: Political Violence and New Media symposium (Day two) Abolishing all Nuclear Weapons La domination de l'espace et les réseaux de satellite (audio)
La technologie de ce siècle évolue désormais en suivant la loi de Moore, selon laquelle les performances des composants électroniques évoluent exponentiellement avec une constante de temps de deux ans. De là découlent d'abord la percée des micro-ordinateurs puis, plus inattendue, la croissance également exponentielle des réseaux de communication. Quels sont les facteurs de cette expansion qui crée la société de l'information ? L'espace est le moyen global de transfert et distrib Burma Elections: If not free or fair, then what? Public Goods: Some inter-temporal considerations The Confessions of an Erstwhile Land Rights Advocate US Military Commissions & International Humanitarian Law in the ‘War on Terrorism’ Contracting Cultures: Indigenous Intellectual Property and the Creative Commons Do Garnaut’s targets add up? The Eighth H.W. Arndt Memorial Lecture: Rehabilitating the Unloved Dollar Standard Satellite Tracker Working Towards a Connected Frontline Health System The Missing Dimension of Stateness
These seminars were run by the Oxford Martin School (formerly the James Martin 21st Century School) in association with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Three intersecting considerations will be examined for their relevance in assessing the wisdom of adopting 'zero' as the goal for an international initiative: 1) Tactics: Whether and how framing an issue in terms of getting to zero can be a successful technique for issue advocates? 2) Diplomatic strategy: What is the wisd
Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of bytes, tweets, digital images, and social networking forums. (New) media technology, in other words, has become a medium of war and diplomacy.
This multidisciplinary two-day symposium on 7-8 October hosted by the Department of International Relations at the ANU mapped the shifting arena of war, conflict, terrorism, and violence in an intensely mediated a
Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of bytes, tweets, digital images, and social networking forums. (New) media technology, in other words, has become a medium of war and diplomacy.
This multidisciplinary two-day symposium on 7-8 October hosted by the Department of International Relations at the ANU mapped the shifting arena of war, conflict, terrorism, and violence in an intensely mediated a
Mr Fraser addressed the current state of nuclear weapons acquisition and distribution and the present danger and opportunities facing the world. He covered the failures in disarmament and non-proliferation and the implications and security challenges nuclear weapons have for Australian Defence policy. Mr Fraser will also discuss the current Rudd Government's initiative of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferations and Disarmament, and what Australia can do to help abolish nuclear
This forum considers scenarios for and beyond Burma's anticipated 2010 elections. While the elections are part of the military regime's "7-point Road Map", many aspects of how they will play out, their prospects and limitations, remain unclear. What will be their aftermath? How will the domestic, regional and international communities respond to the post-ballot constitutional order and new government? Burma scholars from ANU, a representative from the Australian Electoral Commission, and other s
This lecture reviews the literature on the voluntary contributions to public goods by repeatedly-interacting contributors and discusses how the economic theory of choice of sequences of actions sheds light on the outcomes of voluntarism. Professor Long will draw attention to abstract public goods, such as the stock of mutual trust in a community, and the building up of a spirit of cooperation. Game-strategic aspects of voluntary contributions are also discussed, including the role of behavioural
Late in his term on the High Court, Justice McHugh, one of the
majority in the Mabo decision and one of the dissentients in Wik,
expressed criticism of the "costly and time-consuming" native title
system. He thought it was unable to fairly evaluate the competing legal
rights of landholders and native-title holders.
In this lecture presented by the National Centre for Indigenous
Studies and the Centre for International and Public Law, Father Frank
Brennan argues that the issue now is not the legi
David Hicks, accused of being an enemy combatant in the war on
terrorism and held at Guantanamo Bay, has become a household name in
Australia. Reports of his case have appeared regularly in the media,
often including comments from his defence lawyer Major Michael Mori of
the US Marine Corps.
In this lecture Major Mori
outlines the proposed trial proceedings for US military commissions and
discuss whether or not the rules and procedures will accord with the
minimum requirements mandated under Int
In intellectual property, there has been much interest of late in the
creative use of contract law - especially with the development of the
Creative Commons.
By necessity, Indigenous communities have been pioneers in the creative
use of contract law. In light of the glacial progress to reform
legislative regimes and international treaties to protect traditional
knowledge, Indigenous peoples have been forced to make creative use of
contract law in order to protect their cultural interests. Rather
On Friday, 5 September 2008, Professor Ross Garnaut released his much awaited supplementary draft report on targets and trajectories. The report argues that Australia's mid- and long-term targets should be to reduce emissions net of international trading by 10 per cent from 2000 levels by 2020, and 80 per cent by m2050. This, we are told, is a proportionate contribution to the ‘achievable' international goal of stabilising the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases at 550 parts per
The international dollar standard is an accident of history that greatly facilitates international trade and exchange. But erratic U.S. monetary and financial policies, have upset the U.S. and a world economy thus makes foreigners unhappy. Paradoxically, the asymmetrical nature of the dollar standard also makes many Americans unhappy because they cannot control their own exchange rate. Although nobody loves the dollar standard, it is a remarkably robust institution that is too valuable to lose a
Students use satellite tracking software available on the Internet to monitor a very large satellite, the International Space Station. Using information from this online resource, students predict and graph the motion of the space station at their location and create a 3-D display of its path through the sky.
Commonwealth Government needs to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Australia's health care system. Primary health care provides the first point of contact for patients and is touted as the cornerstone of a more effective health system, but it is undermined by fragmented services. Frontline clinicians need be able to provide comprehensive, coordinated and personalised care to patients, particularly those with multiple serious illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and depression.
Dr Stange
While Professor Francis Fukuyama’s changing evaluation of the arguments
of his one-time Neocon colleagues has illuminated major issues about
American policy and the war in Iraq, his general thinking about weak
states and foreign intervention has received less attention in
Australia. In this lecture he continues his review of policies and
practices on international aid and the rebuilding of weak, failing and
failed states. As Professor Fukuyama has argued, “state-building is one
