CAPPE

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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


WHAT'S NEW

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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 Ned Dobos

Business and Professional Ethics

Political Violence and State Sovereignty

Ned.Dobos@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-8465
Facsimilie +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

 

Biography

Ned Dobos received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne in 2009. He has published on just war theory, the ethics of humanitarian intervention, and political philosophy more generally, including papers in The Journal of Applied Philosophy, The Philosophical Forum, Journal of Military Ethics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and the Journal of Moral Philosophy. His forthcoming book Insurrection and Intervention is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Dobos is also research active in the areas of business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and regulation. He is currently co-editing The Global Financial Crisis: Ethical Issues, with Christian Barry and Thomas Pogge, forthcoming with Palgrave in 2010.

 

Fields of special interest

  • Political Violence and State Sovereignty
  • Political Obligation
  • Business Ethics
  •  Corporate governance and regulation