ICU Rotary Peace Center is co-hosting a symposium inviting Prof. Matthew J. GIBNEY, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
Symposium “Why Should We Protect Refugees?
Speaker: Professor Matthew J. GIBNEY (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
Abstract
Refugee protection in the global North is currently in a situation of crisis as wealthy countries increasingly place barriers in the path of asylum. These barriers force asylum seekers into dangerous voyages and create huge inequalities in the way responsibility for protection is distributed across the world’s states. Taking this crisis as my starting point, I examine the fundamental question of why states like Japan and the UK have a moral responsibility to protect refugees. I will outline four different answers. These stem respectively from considerations of humanitarianism, harm, community, and the system of states. While the existence of a range of different rationales to support a duty to grant asylum should hearten anyone in favour of improving refugee protection, I will show why choosing between them raises difficult political questions.
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Time: 12:30 – 16:30 (JST)
Venue: International Conference Room at Dialogue House (2F)
Language: English and Japanese (Simultaneous interpretation)
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International Christian University Rotary Peace Center 
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