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On 17th November 2016, the IERG is hosting an eclectic event at Friends House in London that will investigate 'Ethics & Rights in a Security Context'. Speakers include: Prof. Marina Jirotka (Oxford); Prof. Nicholas Wheeler - TBC (Birmingham); Prof. Jason Ralph (Leeds); Prof. James Connelly (Hull); Dr. Cian O'Driscoll (Glasgow); and Dr. Tom Walker (Belfast). To register contact F.Melhuish.1@warwick.ac.uk.

Ethics and rights are central to the study of security. They have a significant place across a range of security contexts and at a number of scales or frames of analysis, including the individual, organisational, state, and international levels. This workshop brings together projects that explore ethics and rights in a security context, covering a range of subject areas, including nuclear weaponry, the treatment of people at borders, the ending of wars, the notions of digital citizenship and the common good online, the spreading of rumours or misinformation on the internet, and the norms surrounding foreign policy regarding Syria. Through examining approaches to ethics from a variety of perspectives and on a diverse range of topics, participants in this workshop will enhance their understanding of how ethics can facilitate and empower security policy.

On 8th June 2016 Kat Hadjimatheou and Christopher Nathan hosted a workshop in collaboration with the College of Policing to explore fundamental questions about the practice of undercover policing in the UK. A full report, including recommendations that arose from the meeting, is available here.

On 28th June the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group is hosting a workshop to discuss 'The Limits of States - Ethics, War, and Migration'.

From the refugee crisis to the newly shifting plates of the world order, the limits of states have never been more critical. This workshop brings together a series of thinkers whose research examines the frontiers of war and security. How can we treat people ethically at borders? What special obligations towards refugees arise out of military intervention? How far can an existing state-based international order be hospitable to the protection of individual and global security in a nuclear world? What counts as a military victory and what rights do victors acquire? Each raises important further questions about the way that we understand the relations between states, and this workshop will provide an opportunity both to examine those issues independently and to identify their interdependencies.

Introduced by Prof. Tom Sorell (Warwick). Speakers include Prof. Jason Ralph (Leeds); Prof. Nicholas Wheeler (Birmingham); Dr. Cian O'Driscoll (Glasgow); and Dr. Tom Walker (Belfast). To sign up please contact F.Melhuish.1@warwick.ac.uk.

You can view the workshop schedule here.

Christopher Nathan and Francesca Melhuish organised a workshop on ‘The Ethics of Intelligence’ on 6th May 2016, with funds from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the ESRC. Among the speakers was Tom Sorell of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group, who talked on the topic of ‘Angela Merkel’s Telephone’ and the ethics of states intruding upon one another. The other speakers were Richard Aldrich (Warwick) on 'Does Intelligence Make the World Safer?’; Kira Vrist Rønn (Copenhagen) and Adam Diderichsen (Danish National Police College) on 'Just War Theory as a Framework for Intelligence Ethics’; Adam Diderichsen on ‘Intelligence and its Legitimacy Crisis’; Simon Willmetts (Hull) on ‘21st Century Orwells: Privacy, Transparency and the Ethics of Surveillance in Contemporary Digital Dystopias’; and Ross Bellaby (Sheffield) on ‘Only Guilty People Hide: The Dark-Net and Cyber-Intelligence: Legitimating Surveillance or Legitimating Resistance’.