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Dr. Chris Moran recently sat down with Dr. Trevor McCrisken for a podcast for the to discuss the role of drones in modern surveillance, warfighting, and counterterrorism. McCrisken discusses the weaponization of drones, the targeted killing program of the Bush and Obama administrations, the perception in the West that the drone war is “costless”, and the possibility of what he calls the “perpetual war” against global terrorism.

, and from Politics and International Studies have been awarded a $460k grant by the Chicago-based to study faith schools.

These schools raise a number of challenging philosophical and practical questions. Do parents have a right to raise their children as members of their preferred religion, of a sort that can be translated into a right to send them to a school that instructs them in it? Do children have a right to autonomy that precludes instilling in them religious beliefs and throws into question the legitimacy of faith schooling? Do these schools foster intolerance or instead provide pupils with an invaluable moral grounding? Should they receive public funding or merely be tolerated as part of the private sector? To what extent, and in what ways, should they be regulated, for example with respect to admissions and curriculum? Swift, Clayton and Mason will address these issues in a way that combines both rigorous philosophical analysis and empirical studies in order to bridge the gap between policy and principle.

In Britain, recent policy developments around academies and free schools, together with worries about multiculturalism and social cohesion, have brought issues around government involvement in faith schooling to the centre of public debate. That debate has typically generated more heat than light. The aim is to contribute to, and improve, that debate by offering a philosophically serious and empirically informed perspective on the key regulatory questions, with implications for societies beyond the UK.

On December 6th a group of scholars from around the world met in Paris for the foundation meeting of the International Public Policy Association. Its President is B. Guy Peters from Pittsburgh University, and one of the four Vice Presidents is Professor from PAIS.

The Association promotes scientific research in the field of Public Policy and organises various activities that contribute to its international development. One of its most successful activities is an international conference. IPPAs next conference is in Milan in July 2015 and will convene 174 panels with anticipated participation of 1,500 individuals.

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The Islamic finance industry is rapidly expanding. With an annual growth rate of 15 per cent, it is widely regarded as a ‘development to watch’. This has led to debate among policy makers and market practitioners about whether there is something distinctive about Islamic finance or whether it is simply emulating conventional finance.

This was the central theme at a recent workshop organised by Dr Lena Rethel (PAIS), Dr Kerstin Steiner (Monash University) and Dr Jikon Lai (The University of Melbourne) and hosted by Monash Business School. It brought together eminent national and international academics from the fields of law, political science, economics, international political economy and sociology to debate and review recent developments in the Islamic finance industry.

Representatives from Australian regulators were in attendance, as were their international colleagues from the Shariah (Islamic religious law) Advisory Council at the Central Bank of Malaysia and the Securities Commission. Legal practitioners and business representatives, including the chairperson of the Australia Malaysia Business Council and the Consul-General of Malaysia to Victoria also attended the workshop.

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Dr. , Teaching Fellow here in PAIS and , has been featured in a leaflet on inspirational teaching ideas.