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European Social Models, Protection and Inclusion
Institute for Futures Studies Research Report 2009/1, 101p. The Member States of the European Union have agreed to promote the common goals of economic growth, quality of jobs and comprehensive social
Malcolm Fairbrother: Trust and Public Support for Environmental Protection
Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol ABSTRACTMost people say they are concerned about the serious environmental problems confronting the world today and threatening the well-being of future ge
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

The legal challenges of protecting cultural property in military operations
Martin Hamilton, Centre for International Law and Operational Law, Swedish Defence University: "The legal challenges of protecting cultural property in military operations." A talk on how the military

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
Beyond Operation Protective Edge
The most recent conflict in Gaza – Operation Protective Edge – brought to the fore crucially important debates in both international law and the ethics of war. In November this year, a group of intern
Forecasting Global Growth by Age Structure Projections
This paper uses demographic projections of age structure and correlations with GDP and GDP growth to study the forecasting properties of demographically based models. Extending the forecasts to 2050 s
Peter Vallentyne: Interest-protecting versus choice-protecting rights
Peter Vallentyne, Florence G. Kline Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri ABSTRACTA person is wronged when her rights are infringed, but when exactly are rights infringed? Th
The importance of protecting religious buildings in war
It has been a long and violent conflict, but the parties have finally come to an agreement to put down their weapons – now it’s time for peace to settle in society. Unfortunately, there are a limited
Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.