We are delighted to present the recorded video of David Miliband’s recent sold-out Fulbright Legacy Lecture, entitled The New "Arrogance of Power": Global Politics in the Age of Impunity. The lecture was presented in conjunction with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Lois Roth Endowment, the International Rescue Committee, and the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday 19th June 2019. It was chaired by the Principal, Professor Peter Mathieson.
A full video of the lecture is available here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc-sci/news-events/lectures/fulbright/current/david-miliband
David Miliband’s lecture also coincided with the release of a global poll with Ipsos Mori and King’s College London, information on which can be found in this Huffington Post feature.
A complete transcript of the lecture can be accessed at https://www.rescue.org/press-release/new-arrogance-power-global-politics-age-impunity
The central concern of the lecture is a dangerous global trend: what I call the Age of Impunity, which I see every day in my work, and which blights the lives of millions of people around the world. By Age of Impunity, I mean a time when those engaged in conflicts around the world – and there are many – believe they can get away with anything, including murder, whatever the rules and norms. And because they can get away with anything, they do everything. Chemical weapons, cluster bombs, land mines, bombing of school buses, besiegement of cities, blocking of humanitarian supplies, targeting of journalists and aid workers. You name it, we are seeing it, and seeing more of it, and seeing less outrage about it, and less accountability for it.
So this lecture is about the innocent civilians killed or brutalized by conflict, and whether their lives can be saved.