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18 November, 2020

Disinformation Campaigns - Challenging Our Democracy

Online Interactive SessionJoin this seminar hosted by the University of Ottawa with experts who will provide insights into what the Next Generation of Disinformation Campaigns and actors will be. Disinf General John Allen, President, The Brookings InstitutionMr. Mikael Tofvesson, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)Dr. Joel Finkelstein, NCRI, Princeton UniversityMr. Phil Gurski, uOttawa SET Program Director, President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. Paul Goldenberg, Senior Fellow, Rutgers University Miller Center; Cardinal Point Strategies

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20 September, 2022

Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Place: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Emily Klancher Merchant, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis. Emily is anhistorian

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18 October, 2022
Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Can we ethically achieve a sustainable population size? Answers to this question typically focus on the human rights abuses perpetrated by efforts to control the world’s populations in the twentieth a

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25 April, 2023
Lambros Roumbanis

Lambros Roumbanis

My research focuses on the organization of expert judgments, evaluation technologies, selection mechanisms, and complex decision-making processes. More specifically, I study how organizations deal wit

Associate Professor in Sociology
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10 June, 2015

The Value of Existence

in: The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory Eds.Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford University Press. Can it be better or worse for a person to exist than not to exist at all? This old and challenging exis

Type of publication: Chapters | Arrhenius, Gustaf , , Wlodek Rabinowicz
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05 May, 2023

Climate policy in British Columbia: An unexpected journey

Frontiers in Climate 4 Abstract Since introducing a path-breaking carbon tax in 2008, the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has attracted significant attention from climate policy schola

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Ekaterina Rhodes
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17 September, 2024

Trust, social movements, and the state

Journal of Trust Research Abstract A large literature has developed around the concept of political trust, but what exactly political trust is remains ambiguous. Some studies present it as a narrower ev

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , Penker, M. & M Hadler
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24 November, 2023
Kremlin influence and the destabilization of Swedish democracy

Kremlin influence and the destabilization of Swedish democracy

An analysis of geostrategic market offensives, Russian influence operations, Swedish partners, and the threat of oligarchic capitalism

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09 June, 2015

Chandra Kumar: Racist Explanations

Chandra Kumar, with a PhD in Philosophy, teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at York University in Canada. AbstractWhile crudely and explicitly racist explanations persist in our social

Chandra Kumar teaches political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at York University in Canada.
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16 January, 2025
Ambivalence: A new unified theory

Ambivalence: A new unified theory about its nature, grounds, and application to normative conflicts

Having mixed feelings about something can help us to deal with conflicts. Since this view on ambivalence challenges traditional approaches that see ambivalence as a flaw, this project aims to develop a new theory of ambivalence.

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