We invite abstracts of 500 words for papers suitable for presentation in 20 minutes for our 3rd annual conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics 

The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2017. All abstracts will be blind reviewed, so please do ensure that all identifying information is removed.

To submit your abstract, please send (i) the anonymised abstract in .doc or .pdf format, and (ii) a separate document containing author information (name, paper title, email address, affiliation) to globalethics2017@gmail.com

​Possible paper topics include, but are certainly not limited to:

  • The ethics of philanthropy
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Development ethics
  • The morality of sanctions and coercive measures
  • Global distributive justice
  • Partiality and its limits
  • Poverty alleviation and priority setting
  • Ethics and International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
  • Paternalism and respect for agency
  • War and conflict
  • The responsibilities of aid workers and NGOs
  • Public health ethics
  • Effective altruism and its critics
  • Responsibilities towards refugees