Professor Ashok Swain is head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. Do you think there's hope for new voices coming back into the conversation? There is always hope, he says. The kind of issues we talked about, like the issue on gender, issue on climate change, those who are always in the past, they were also in the fringe, but now they have been getting the momentum. But I think that's something which need to be, it can never go out of fashion.
Joining
UnHerd to talk about why so few voices in public life and the media have spoken out against the shipment of cluster bombs, and about the recession of anti-war sentiment more widely, is the academic and writer Ashok Swain. A professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University in Sweden, he is one of the world’s leading experts on conflict resolution. His nation of residence is now set to join Nato, and he sat down with Freddie Sayers to unpick how Sweden’s proposed membership goes against its history of neutrality.
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