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Avia Pasternak: Violent Protests and the Proportionality Test
Research seminar with Avia Pasternak, Associate Professor in Political Theory at University College London. REGISTER HERE TO GET A MEETING LINK AbstractViolent protestors against state injustice typical
Kristian Lasslett
Kristian is an investigative criminologist specialising in the study of elite networks involved in the organisation of serious economic crime. His research focuses thematically on grand corruption, kl
Maria Wallenberg Bondesson
I am a historian, and defended my thesis at Stockholm University in 2003. In my thesis, I studied different types of religious conflicts in Sweden in the 17th-19th centuries. Since 2007 my research has
War ethics and international law – a discussion with academics, practitioners and policy-makers
In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military action against Gaza called "Operation Protective Edge", as a response to Hamas rocket attacks. The conflict brought to the fore important debates in b
Is the world ready for democracy?
Welcome to a seminar where we present the newest results from World Values Survey, the world's largest survey on values and cultural changes. The results concern several countries in the Middle East, A
Global Social Norms
The Global Social Norms network is a research collaboration with its base at the Institute for Futures Studies, connecting social norms researchers from over 130 countries.
Postdoc scholarship at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm
The Institute for Futures Studies and the Swedish Institute, is looking for a highly qualified postdoc to be part of an ambitious interdisciplinary research network, the World Values Survey, based in S
How Migration Can Benefit Development
Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidens samhälle nr 5, 2006 Migration can make positive contributions to the economic development of poor countries, but needs to be incorporated into th
Population growth - how great are the risks and what factors affect risk levels?
The global population has increased dramatically since the year 1900 from approximately 1,6 billion to today's 8 billion. The UN estimates that world population will reach 11 billion by the year 2100.
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