Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

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The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges

The Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, will join us to discuss how to address these challenges as well as seize new opportunities. The UK launched an international development White Paper in November 2023, setting out seven areas for action across a broad ra ...  Show more

 . 1h 20min
Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet'

Hannah Ritchie discusses her new book 'Not the end of the world' with Prof Charles Godfray. We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children. But in this talk, ...  Show more

 . 1h 0min
Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?

Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, explores the implications of growing paralysis, polarisation and uncertainty for a world in a race against time to achieve systemic and transformational change. Conflicts, climate change, rising inequalities…. the list of crises is long and grow ...  Show more

 . 1h 14min
The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities

Adama Dieng, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, July 2012 to July 2020, discusses the UN's role in the global collective responsibility to prevent genocide and other mass atrocities. Adama considers how the UN ...  Show more

 . 1h 11min
Time To Look Up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisis

After a summer of extreme heatwaves, devastating wildfires and deadly flooding across the world, all made worse by climate change, the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow 2021, will discuss the ongoing climate crisis. In the run up to COP28, Sir Alok will descri ...  Show more

 . 49min 33sec