Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 13:30 - Military strategy and complex uncertainty
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 12:30 - How Domestic Politics Shape the United States' Nuclear Credibility
  Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 3 November 2025

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice: Trends and Challenges
  Come in person, or attend online at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84512098107?pwd=vLz8wU0nWriQdMAll0ivYVbLBqmCJ5.1 Followed by drinks reception.
  Dr Anthony Ware, (Deakin University), Osama Risheq (Al-Quds University), Leanne Kelly (Deakin University), Tamara Tamimi (Queens University Belfast), Claudio Alberti (OECD, Swisspeace), Tim Midgley (OxPeace, Conflict Sensitivity & Peacebuilding Consultant), Dr Sherine El Taraboulsi (Start Network), Alice Gore (OxPeace, FCDO)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 13:30 - Russia's Hybrid War
  Bob Seely MBE
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Impacts of Globalization on Political Knowledge: Evidence from Climate Awareness in Africa
  Amanda Kennard (Stanford University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Saturday 8 November 2025

• 09:00 - Peace, Security, Women's Rights, & Peacebuilding in Challenging Times
  Arrive from 08.45, Conference starts 09.15, and ends 18.00. Coffees and sandwich lunch included. Registration is strongly encouraged to help with catering, If you register, please come! Pay by card on the door, students £7, others £10. . Walk-ins are welcome on the day. This Conference is in-person, audio podcasts will be available later.
  Prof Gearoid Millar (University of Aberdeen), Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Eva Tabbasam (GAPS), Ufra Mir (Kashmir & SE Asia), Shelagh Daley (Saferworld, FCDO), Nita Yawanarajah (Oxford Process), Maimuna Mohamud (ASAL), Fathiaa Abdalla (Humanitarian Action for Sudan), Naheed Israr (HIVE Pakistan (via Peace Direct)), Lamija Kovacevic (Mediacentar Sarajevo), Anjali Rawat (DPhil candidate, Oxford University), Dr Aitemad Matar (LSE Middle East Centre)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 13:30 - Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi
  Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 17:30 - Lester B. Pearson Inaugural Lecture: Passions, Preferences, and the Politics of Self-Binding
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 13:30 - Cyber Security
  Jen Easterly (former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 12:30 - Norms, Practices, and Change in a Planetary Era
  Steven Bernstein (University of Toronto)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 13:30 - How the global operating system is a sea-based phenomenon, ocean anarchy and why the sea matters to everyone
  Sean Andrews (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Politics of Deference by International Courts
  Theresa Squatrito (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 12:30 - Collective Reciprocity and the Failure of Climate Change Mitigation Treaties
  Sam Housekeeper (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium