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26 June, 2024
Forensic Art and Documentary Film as Non-Governmental Rights Campaigns: Possibilities and Limitations

Forensic Art and Documentary Film as Non-Governmental Rights Campaigns: Possibilities and Limitations

This project consists of three research-initiation workshops on aspects of a unifying theme: forensics in art and documentary film.

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18 December, 2018

Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test

Hindawi, Volume 2018, Article ID 3568085, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2018/3568085. Abstract Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrighetto, Giulia , , Luis G. Nardin
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31 August, 2018

Daniel Cohnitz: Trust no one? The (social) epistemological consequences of belief in conspiracy theories

Daniel Cohnitz, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Utrecht University. Abstract Conspiracy theorists are typically skeptical about the trustworthiness of central governmental institutions. Some philos

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25 April, 2018

Board member Berit Högman County Governor

Our board member Berit Högman is the new County Governor in Västernorrland County, Sweden from April 16. Her appointment as County Governor and Head of the County Administrative Board in the province

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30 September, 2024

Katherine Puddifoot: Stress, Trauma, Memory and Injustice: How Policies Wrong Rememberers

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Katherine Puddifoot, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Her recent mnemonic form epistemic injustice

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11 January, 2016

Research

Research at the Institute is structured around a research program, usually conducted over a period of six years. What they all have in common is the futures perspective and the fact that they are all

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09 June, 2017

Research areas

The Institute for Futures Studies is an institute for social science research focusing on issues deemed important for the future.

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05 November, 2020
Equality and equity in Swedish education: policy, practice and historical perspectives

Equality and equity in Swedish education: policy, practice and historical perspectives

Björn Åstrand, Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier vid Umeå universitet. Equality and equity in education is since long a key policy priority internationally as well as in

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11 December, 2019

John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change

The usual way of thinking about climate change is that the present generation will have to make large sacrifices in order to reduce emissions. For example, by consuming less goods and services. This is one reason why cutting emissions is so hard. But what if there is a way to get climate change under control where no one needs to sacrifice?

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15 April, 2021

Women in violent extremism in Sweden

Nordic Council of Ministers, 54 pages Women have generally been treated as “side shows” in the literature on war,terrorism and violent extremism and have thus been given scant scholarly attention.In mato be framed as unwitting, passive agents or brainwashed victims pulled into violentextremist movements only through the relations of their husbands, boyfriends, orfathers.

Type of publication: Other | Mondani, Hernan , & Jerzy Sarnecki Rostami, Amir , & Jerzy Sarnecki Askanius, Tina , & Jerzy Sarnecki Edling, Christofer , & Jerzy Sarnecki
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