Why is it that the ending of wars rarely means the beginning of peace? What does it mean for violence to be structural? And what are the implications of structural violence for ending wars? Specifically, does diagnosing wars as structural violence obscure individual responsibility or accountability, or does it open new avenues for formulating responsibility for wars, as well as clarify responsibility for war and violence in contexts of objectionable hierarchies, such as in contexts of empire, slavery, and (settler) colonialism?
This discussion is organised within the context of the three events on Global Ethics by Prof. Richard Bellamy, and in collaboration with the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
Speakers
Professor Catherine Lu
Catherine Lu is Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Her research interests intersect political theory and international relations, focusing on critical and normative theoretical studies of colonial international order, structural injustice, and global justice; alienation and reconciliation; and cosmopolitanism and the world state. She is the author of Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award from the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, the 2018 Yale H. Ferguson Prize from the International Studies Association - Northeast Region, the 2019 International Ethics Section Book award of the International Studies Association, and was co-winner of the 2018 Sussex International Theory Prize (UK); and Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2018), as well as research fellowships from the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (2013), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010-11), and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2004-5). She currently serves on the editorial boards of American Political Science Review, The Journal of Political Philosophy, The Journal of International Political Theory, and Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Professor Richard Bellamy
Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science at University College London (UCL) and a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School. A Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), he is the author of 11 monographs and over 150 articles. He has a particular interest in the issue of constitutionalism and democracy, both domestically – especially in the UK, and internationally, especially with regard to the EU. His latest publications include A Republican Europe of States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU Cambridge University Press, 2019; (with Dario Castiglione) From Maastricht to Brexit: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU Rowman and Littlefield, 2019; and (with Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer) Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness and Democracy Bristol University Press, 2022.
