The Lancet Healthy Longevity' Abstract Housing characteristics and neighbourhood context are considered risk factors for COVID-19 mortality among older adults. The aim of this study was to investigate h

The staff of the Institute for Futures Studies is deeply saddened to learn that our friend and colleague Geoffrey Brennan has recently passed away. Geoff was a most distinguished scholar and a very val

Geoffrey Brennan, Professor at the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University ABSTRACTThis paper propounds and explicates an 'Iron Law of inter-temporal income dispersion trans

Geoffrey Brennan is an Australian philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of political science at Duke University. This seminar was su

Journal of Family Issues, doi:10.1177/0192513X14522244. Abstract Couples generally move to accommodate men’s, rather than women’s, career opportunities. Using Swedish panel data including 1,039 married o

Beyond Operation Protective Edge

This is a seminar on international law and war ethics, taking Operation Protective Edge as an example. The seminar was held at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm 2015. Participants: He

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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Volume 20, Issue 5,  pp 957–968, doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9842-x. Abstract Deprivations normally give rise to undeserved inequality. It is commonly thought that one

Maja Fjaestad

I am an expert coordinator at the Centre for Health Crises at KI and Associate Professor at KTH. I previously worked as State Secretary for the Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs and before for strategic development and Nordic cooperation at the Prime Minster’s office. I have also worked as researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. I have also been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Desk officer at the Ministry of Industry and political adviser in energy issues to Minister of Energy, Mona Sahlin.

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