Date of Publication: 01/06/2019

Description:

In this week’s podcast, we are going to learn about a fascinating new book on Military Virtues and how military ethics training can improve decision making in the field. Then, we will change tracks to the domain of art and conflict to explore how art can add to analytical research methodologies used in international relations (IR) with the members of the Truth Tellers Pilot study, which seeks to examine the unspeakable aspects of the response to the 2017 Manchester Arena Attack through newly develop art-IR methodologies.

Interviewees:

Military Virtues

https://www.howgatepublishing.com/product-page/militaryvirtues

Professor David Whetham, Professor of Ethics and the Military Profession at the Defence Studies Department and Co-editor of Military Virtues. Learn more about Prof Whetham's work here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/whetham-dr-david

Truth Tellers Project

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/research/groups/arts/truthtellers/index

Tom de Freston, artist and writer based in Oxford and member of the Truth Tellers Project.

Mariah Whelan is a poet and academic based in The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester.

Dr Pablo de Orellana, Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of War Studies.

Dr Christiana Spens, Lecturer and Writer in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews.