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  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

Emerging and Converging Technologies Program:

    This program deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies that combine with or add to existing technologies, including ethical issues in bio/nanotechnology, computing and IT. More

Poverty Program:

    This program focuses on building an ethically and empirically based account of what development is, what standards it ought to use, and the like. Issues addressed include the measurement of poverty and global minimal labour standards. More

Health Program:

    This program will conduct research in relation to a range of interconnected ethical issues in the public health domain. More

Ecology Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Economy Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Security Program:

    This program focuses on the ethical dimensions of a range of current domestic and international security problems, including ethical issues pertaining to terrorism, crime, and humanitarian intervention. More


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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

PhD Candidate Adam Henschke Australia Talks on Privacy.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions

 

CAPPE Canberra Seminar

CAPPE Canberra Seminars will start for 2012 in February. Watch this space!

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Conferences

 

Workshop: Designing Just Institutions for Global Climate Governance (June 30 - 1 July). Click here for details

Past News



Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher

 

Political Violence and State Sovereignity

anne.schwenkenbecher@univie.ac.at
Telephone +43 1 4277 46490
Facsimile +43 1 4277 47462
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http://distortions.univie.ac.at/team/anne-schwenkenbecher/

PhD (Humboldt University Berlin)

Biography

Anne Schwenkenbecher’s current research project focuses on collective obligations arising from climate change. Her PhD focused on the ethics of political violence, in particular the definition and possible justifications of terrorism. Together with Anna Goppel and Daniel Messelken (University of Zurich) Anne Schwenkenbecher established the German Network for Terrorism Research (www.netzwerk-terrorismusforschung.de). She currently holds a research position at the University of Vienna.

 

Fields of special interest

  • Ethics of Climate Change
  • Ethics of Political Violence
  • Collective Responsibility and Collective Obligations

 

Publications

Schwenkenbecher, Anne (2009). “Terrorism, Supreme Emergency and Killing the Innocent”. In Perspectives - The Review of International Affairs, 17(1): 105-126.

Schwenkenbecher, Anne (2010).“Terrorism Against Non-Innocents: The Ethical Implications”. In Paul Omoyefa (ed.) Basic Applied Ethics. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.

Schwenkenbecher, Anne (exp. 2011) Terrorism: A Philosophical Inquiry. (PhD thesis)