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23 September, 2022

Do Offenders Deserve Proportionate Punishments?

Criminal Law & Philosophy Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate how retributivists should respond to the apparent tension between moral desert and proportionality in punishment. I argue th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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20 September, 2018

Movie premiere! A New Society

Why do we need social progress? On July of 2014 a monumental task began as hundreds of the world's leading academics came together to set new standards for a just, secure and healthy global society. T has been tirelessly forming a non-partisan report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians, and decision-makers in order to provide an architecture for present and future global issues and crises.

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05 July, 2024
Sakli(g)t 2024: Sweden's first festival of literary non-fiction

Sakli(g)t 2024: Sveriges första sakprosafestival

Sakli(g)t is Sweden's first festival of literary non-fiction, organized by the Rikstolvan cultural centre outside Simrishamn in collaboration with the Institute for Futures Studies and Linnaeus UniverGiven the central role of non-fiction as a knowledge-transmitting link between science and the public, Sweden needs an arena where the narrative non-fiction book is the focus of in-depth discussions on the politically increasingly hot issues of facts, truth, narrative, reality and how form and aesthetics affect both knowledge itself and what knowledge becomes viable in today's technologically mobile media landscape. Such meeting places for producers and consumers of the documentary genre have long existed in the neighboring Nordic countries, but have not yet existed in Sweden.This year's program includes author talks with Åsa Wikforss, Nicolas Lunabba, Saga Cavallin, Johan Hilton, Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Gudrun Schyman, Lasse Berg and Elena Kostiutjenko. In total, 50 authors will appear at the festival. Read the . Get .Together with Rikstolvan, the Institute is a co-founder of the festival, which was launched last year. A permanent establishment of the festival has been made possible with funds from the Institute for Futures Studies, Linnaeus University, the Nature & Culture Foundation, the Swedish Academy, the Swedish Arts Council, Simrishamn Municipality and Region Skåne.

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08 September, 2022

Completed: Deterrence in violent extremism

Can violent extremism be countered with harsher punishments? This project aims to evaluate strategies within the criminal justice system to counter violent extremism.

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17 May, 2023

William MacAskill: What we owe the future - planning for a million years

Location: Kulturhuset, Sergels torg in Stockholm Buy your ticket at Billetto > The philosopher William MacAskill is known to many as one of the founders of Effective Altruism, the movement that has rec

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29 April, 2021

CUSP: Controlling Corruption. The Social Contract Approach

Welcome to the first lecture in the new series CUSP - Critically Urgent Societal Problems - that we arrange in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala. At this first

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