Events

Professor Timothy Garton Ash is coming to the Young Foundation to give a seminar entitled 'Liberalism versus Multiculturalism?'

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Learn more about his owrk on his website.

The seminar will be held at the Young Foundation. If you would like to attend, please email louise.pulford(AT)youngfoundation.org

The Young Foundation co-hosted a lecture by Lord Charles Guthrie with the Mile End Group at Queen Mary, University of London. Lord Guthrie spoke on the consequences of war and the morality of armed conflicts in the twenty-first century, drawing on his latest book: The Just War Tradition: Ethics in Modern Warfare, which he co-authored with Michael Quinlan.  This event was attended by over 100 people.

Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank was Chief of the Defence Staff and the Principal Military Adviser to two Prime Ministers and three Secretaries of State for Defence between 1997 and 2001. Just War was published in 2007 and provides a powerful and timely re-examination of the tenets of war, setting out the case for a workable and credible moral framework for modern war before, while and after it is waged.