Welcome to the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) is an interdisciplinary research programme that aims to strengthen law, norms and institutions to restrain, regulate and prevent armed conflict. Drawing on the disciplines of philosophy, law and international relations, ELAC seeks to develop a more sophisticated framework of rules and stronger forms of international authority relating to armed conflict. Research activity addresses all aspects of armed conflict, including the recourse to war, the conduct of war, and post-conflict governance, transition and reconstruction.

Video webcast: 'How we can effectively reduce or even eliminate armed conflict' Dr David Rodin describes the challenges ELAC aims to address (Oxford Martin School at the Royal Society)

Read the latest ELAC Newsletter (Spring 2011)

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Events

Lunchtime Seminar Series with CCW Hilary Term 2012 - next seminar Tues 14 Feb 2012: Professor Cecile Fabre (Fellow in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford) 'Living With the Enemy: The Ethics of Belligerent Military Occupation’

27 Feb 2012: 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell' - Film Screening and discussion at the Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film Festival.

1 March 2012: Visiting Fellow Olav Ofstad- 'UN Conflict Management in East Timor'

News

What a Difference a Year Makes - Jennifer Welsh compares UN action on Syria and Libya

Ethics at Davos - Dr David Rodin interviewed at The World Economic Forum

New ELAC Kindle publication 'Essays in Humanitarian Action' - Dr Hugo Slim

Visiting Fellow Dr Hugo Slim writes for the Guardian Online on improving early warning for humanitarian action

Symposium on Jeff McMahan’s Killing in War - ELAC Annual Workshop papers published as a special issue of the journal Ethics

Solving Syria - Jennifer Welsh writes for Canadian blog Roundtable

Reflections on R2P: Ten Years On - Serena Sharma guest edits special edition of Global Responsibility to Protect

ELAC Hosts High-Level Meeting on the Responsibility to Prevent Mass Atrocity Crimes

Taking Responsibility for Protection - Serena Sharma in the Global Future Challenges Blog