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Human Rights Day 2022: #StandUp4HumanRights

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A special edition blog for Human Rights Day 2022, celebrating research into academic freedom as well as other works on human rights

The 10th of December 2022 is Human Rights Day, and it’s an important date in the calendar of internationally observed events by the United Nations (UN). Human Rights Day 2022 is a celebration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly in 1948. After the horrors and atrocities of World War 2, nations […]

Justice and community: The rationality of learning by doing

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A blue and white drawing of a cityscape with a river running through the middle of tall built-up areas. Professor Gregory Robson researches political philosophy and ethics, investigating the questions of social progress and justice

Professor Robson addresses fundamental questions of social progress and how societies can experiment with different political and social systems without unduly disregarding tradition. This experimentation enables individuals and groups to learn how to better secure justice and improve society more generally. However, it also requires overcoming constraints associated with rationality, which prevent people and communities from taking the necessary risks […]

Shaping a regional offline esports market: Jönköping’s success

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Esports, also known as electronic sports, is a form of competitive sport played through video games. These sports are incredibly popular and have a growing audience of around 600 million people. Dr Brian McCauley from the Media, Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), with his co-authors Dr Kieran Tierney and Dr Dinara Tokbaeva, have studied […]