The Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs – Drone Warfare: Justice, Strategy, Technology

September 20, 2013

Wednesday, October 2, 2013
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Isabel Bader Theatre
Victoria University
93 Charles St. W., Toronto

GENERAL SEATING – Doors open at 4:45 p.m.

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Speakers:

• Neta C. Crawford, Professor of Political Science, Boston University
• Avery Plaw, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director, University Honors Program, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Janice Stein, Moderator, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

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Neta C. Crawford is Professor of Political Science at Boston University. She is the author of Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars (Oxford University Press: 2013) and Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2002). She has published opinion pieces in major newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and The Christian Science Monitor and has written about drones for the Huffington Post. Crawford is also co-director of the Costs of War Project, based at Brown University.

Avery Plaw is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and is the Director of the University Honors Program. His research focuses on political theory and international relations. Dr. Plaw’s book Targeting Terrorists: a License to Kill? was runner-up for the Canadian Political Science Association’s Prize for Best Book of the Year in International Relations, and he has edited two collected volumes, The Metamorphosis of War and Frontiers of Diversity: Explorations in Contemporary Pluralism. He is currently working on a book on the ethics and legality of drone warfare.

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Her most recent publications include Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000); The Cult of Efficiency (2001); and Street Protests and Fantasy Parks (2001) She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton, McMaster University, and Hebrew University.

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This event is co-sponsored by: Victoria University, the Department of Political Science, and the Association of Political Science Students (APSS)