Violence reduction features prominently in the 2015-2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By 2030, the goals urge the global community to eliminate all violence against women and girls (SDG 5.2), to end all forms of violence against children (SDG 16.2), and to significantly reduce all other forms of violence worldwide (SDG 16.1).
Is the world on track to achieve these goals? In which world regions and for what types of violence can we observe significant reductions? To what extent has international programming based on scientific evidence contributed to reductions in violence?
Join us on Friday 8 November as guest speaker Professor Manuel Eisner (Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge) discusses this topic in depth for the Department of Social Policy and Intervention’s 2024 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture.Â
The lecture will take place from 5 – 6 pm in the Auditorium at St John’s College and will be followed by a drinks reception. Registration is required.
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Professor Eisner is the Wolfson Professor of Criminology and the Director of the Institute of Criminology. He is a historian and sociologist by training and joined the Institute of Criminology in 2000. His research revolves around the role of violence and its control in the development of human societies and across the life course.
He has conducted research on the history of homicide since the Middle Ages, examining how violence is shaped by structures of power, and state control, and how the self is defined by cultural forces. He is also one of the principal investigators of the Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood, a 20-year longitudinal study from ages 7 to 26.
Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures
Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention's Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures began in 1917, shortly after Barnett House was founded in 1914. The first lecture was published as the Barnett House Papers No. 1 by Oxford University Press in the same year. When Sidney Ball, chairman of the Barnett House Committee, died in March 1918, the annual talks were renamed the Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures. This historic lecture has been a signature event in DSPI since 1917.
The lecture will be recorded and released online after the event date. For recordings of previous Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures, visit Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures.
