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May 2009 - Videos have now been uploaded. Click here to view a selection of
videos from the conference.


Conference Highlights

Conference held on 17-20 July, 2008  Photographs from the conference and
highlights of the media coverage are available on this site, as well as a report
on an informal survey on global catastrophic risks conducted during the
conference.

Global Catastrophic Risks
This collection of essays, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic, with a
foreword by Sir Martin Rees, is now available to buy.



the book can be bought at: amazon.co.uk - £11
amazon.com - $26
Oxford University Press - £15


Global catastrophic risks are risks that seriously threaten human well-being on
a global scale. An immensely diverse collection of events could constitute
global catastrophes: potential factors range from volcanic eruptions to pandemic
infections, nuclear accidents to worldwide tyrannies, out-of-control scientific
experiments to climatic changes, and cosmic hazards to economic collapse.

Global Catastrophes

Global catastrophes have occurred many times in history, even if we only count
disasters causing more than 10 million deaths. A very partial list of examples
includes the An Shi Rebellion (756-763), the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864), and
the famine of the Great Leap Forward in China, the Black Death in Europe, the
Spanish flu pandemic, the two World Wars, the Nazi genocides, the famines in
British India, Stalinist totalitarianism, and the decimation of the native
American population through smallpox and other diseases following the arrival of
European colonizers. Many others could be added to this list.

Although the current and future risks are of various kinds, treating global
catastrophic risk as a field for academic enquiry is a useful, coherent and
important endeavour

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The Future of Humanity Institute

The Future of Humanity Institute is a unique multidisciplinary research
Institute at the University of Oxford and is part of the Philosophy Faculty and
the James Martin 21 st Century School. FHI's mission is to bring excellent
scholarship to bear on big picture questions for humanity. One of our research
areas is global catastrophic risk, and this website exists to focus attention on
our work in this area, which included a Conference on Global catastrophic risks
(17-20 July 2008) intended to advance knowledge and increase academic interest
in this neglected area. We also published a book outlining the main catastrophic
risks, and the problems and methodologies they share: Global Catastrophic Risks
(OUP, 2008).



 




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