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How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims

Panel 4: Reacting to Conscience Claims in the Public Square

Royal Irish Academy Symposium

Chair:

  • Mr Bryan Dobson, RTÉ

Panellists:

  • Dr John Adentire, Queen Mary University of London
  • Professor Fiona de Londras, University of Birmingham
  • Senator Michael McDowell, Houses of the Oireachtas

How legislators and governments in liberal democracies should react to claims of conscience.

Royal Irish Academy: How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims

How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims

Panel 3: Theological and Religious Perspectives on Conscience

Royal Irish Academy Symposium

Chair:

  • Mary McAleese, MRIA, Professor of Children, Law and Religion, University of Glasgow

Panellists:

  • Professor Linda Hogan, Trinity College Dublin
  • Professor David Albert Jones, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre
  • Professor David Novak, University of Toronto

Religious and theological conceptions of conscience; role of conscientious objection within faith traditions; freedom of religion, freedom within religion. Resistance motivated by faith and conscience: military service, health care.

Royal Irish Academy: How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims

How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?

Panel 2: Conscience in Legal Perspective: Challenges and Controversies 

Royal Irish Academy

Chair:

Professor David Smith, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Panellists:

  • Advocate General Gerard Hogan, Court of Justice of the European Union
  • Professor Ronan McCrea, University College London
  • Dr. Regina McQuillan, St Francis Hospice

Conscientious objections in healthcare, services, resistance to authoritarian regimes: effects on third parties: meaning of ‘complicity’ .

Royal Irish Academy: How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?

How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?

Panel 1: Concepts of Conscience

Royal Irish Academy Symposium

Chair: Professor Bert Gordijn, Dublin City University

Panellists:

  • Professor Kimberley Brownlee, The University of British Columbia
  • Dr Katherine Furman, University of Liverpool

Discussion of concepts of conscience, freedom of conscience, conscientious objection, civil disobedience, individual and corporate conscience