Society for Applied Philosophy
ANNUAL CONFERENCE

was held on 18th - 20th May 2001
Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester

THEME: HUMAN RIGHTS, MILITARY INTERVENTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Event Programme

Friday

5.00-6.30 Symposium on Consistency and Selectivity in Humanitarian Intervention
Stephen Clark: Genocide, Consistency and War
Mark Evans: Imperfect Obligations, Selectivity and the Character of Humanitarian Morality

7.30-9.00 Keynote Address
Nigel Dower: Violent Humanitarianism: an Oxymoron?

Saturday

9.30-11.00 Human Rights
Jim Griffin: First Steps in an Account of Human Rights
Maria Parisoli:
Universalism and Cultural Specificity: Female Circumcision, Intrinsic Dignity and Human Rights

11.30-1.00 Symposium on Rights, Universalism and Contextualism
Donal O’Reardon: Theorising International Rights: Two Perspectives Considered
Gideon Calder: Grounding Human Rights: What Difference Does it Make?

4.00 Society for Applied Philosophy AGM

5.00-6.30 Keynote Address
Chris Brown: Intervention and the Westphalian Order

8.00-9.30 Symposium on National Sovereignty and the Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention
Anthony Ellis: War, Revolution, and Humanitarian Intervention
Brendon Howe: On the Justifiability of Military Intervention
James Munn: Intervention and Collective Justice in the post-Westphalian System

Sunday

9.30-11.00 Symposium on ‘The New International Order’
Iain Brassington: The ‘New International Order’: Global Village and Global Polis
Phil Ross: A Non-Liberal Approach to the Concept of an ‘International Order’

11.30-1.00 Some Other Dilemmas of Military Intervention
Paul Gilbert: Secession, Intervention and the Ethics of War
Alex Moseley and Heather Eisenhut:
Stretching Humanitarianisms: Cultural and Aesthetic Values and Military Intervention

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