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  • A Conversation with Co-Editors of Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice

    Episode 58
    Published: 2022-05-23
    Length: 26:39
    Hosts: Austin Choi Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Ernesto Verdeja

    In this episode, co-editors Associate Professor Ernesto Verdeja, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor at George Mason University, and Austin Choi Fitzpatrick, University Professor, at the University of San Diego discuss their new book, Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice.

    "Wicked Problems" argues that the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation needs a stronger and more practical sense of its ethical obligations. Contributors in this book examine the trade-offs, dilemmas, and compromises they encounter in their daily work with peacebuilding and justice.

    To learn more and purchase a copy of the book, go to go.nd.edu/WickedProblemsPod and use code "ASFLYQ6" for 30% off your purchase.

    Topics: Conflict transformation, Ethics, Justice, Peacebuilding

  • Out of the Lab: The Place of Ethics in Gene Editing Regulation

    Episode 17
    Published: 2020-04-23
    Length: 45:18
    Hosts: Abdulaziz Sachedina, Aline Kalbian, Andrea Vicini, Deborah Blum, Ebrahim Moosa, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Tappan

    What do religious scholars and ethicists have to say about the process of gene editing? What worries them? Listen in to the conversation with panelists Deborah Blum (MIT), Michael Fitzgerald (Boston Globe), Aline Kalbian (Florida State University), Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame), and Adil Najam (Boston University) and expert witnesses Maura Ryan(University of Notre Dame), Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), Robert Tappan(Towson University), and Andrea Vicini (Boston College).

    Topics: Ethics, Gene editing, Religion

  • The Ethics Debate: Is Organ Donation Permitted in Islam?

    Episode 18
    Published: 2020-04-24
    Length: 40:18
    Hosts: Ehsan Masood

    Patient advocate Najah Bazzy (Zaman International), treating clinician Hasan Shanawani (Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety), Aasim Padela (University of Chicago), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), with moderator Ehsan Masood debate organ donation in light of Islamic tradition. A podcast from the Science and the Human Person working group.

    Topics: Ethics, Gene editing, Islam