CAPPE

  • ANU
  • CSU
  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

Criminal Justice Ethics

  • Police Corruption
  • Loyalty, Whistleblowing and Witness Protection More

Business and
Professional Ethics

  • Corporate Responsibility for Economic and Ethical Sustainability
  • Regulating Communication in the Professions More

Ethical Issues
in Biotechnology

  • The Ethics of Life-extending Technology
  • The Ethics of Sex Selection More

IT and Nanotechnology
Ethics of Emergent
Technology

  • E-Government
  • The Precautionary Principle in Nanotechnology More

Political Violence and
State Sovereignty

  • Morality of "Dirty Hands" as an Issue in Political Leadership
  • Ethics, Technology and the "New Wars" More

Welfare Ethics

  • Obligations of Individual Citizens of Wealthy Nations in Relation to International Poverty
  • The Obligations of Welfare Recipients More

WHAT'S NEW

What's new in CAPPE publications?
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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

Professors Hugh White & Tony Coady

'Realism & the Value of Peace' Lecture given to launch Morality and Political Violence by Tony Coady

Dr Michael Selgelid

Ethics in the Public Realm: Drug-resistant tuberculosis

UPCOMING
EVENTS

CAPPE ANU Seminar

The Welfarist Account of Disability - Professor Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
Thursday 17th July 2008 More

CAPPE UniMelb Seminar

Professor Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 16th July 2008 More

Globalising Ethics & Politics

Prospective ANU Research student workshop
24th-26th July 2008 More


Dr Jessica Wolfendale

Ethical Issues in Political Violence and State Sovereignty

jwo@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-3419
Facsimile +61 (03) 9348-2130
View my cv (.doc)

BA, PhD

Biography

Jessica Wolfendale is exploring the ethical issues that have arisen with the development of new military technology, both in the areas of weaponry and in biotechnology. She was recently awarded an ARC Discovery Grant to study of Australia's ability to train soldiers to be effective and ethical.

Fields of special interest

  • Military ethics, moral psychology, military training and moral agency, the moral psychology of torture, applied ethics, forgiveness and punishment