Stephen Coleman

Stephen Coleman

In exam­in­ing the ethics of force mul­ti­plier tech­nol­ogy, Stephen Cole­man is bet­ter­ing our under­stand­ing of the con­duct of con­flict and what non-lethal weaponry can mean.


Why you should lis­ten to him

Dr. Stephen Cole­man is Senior Lec­turer in Ethics and Lead­er­ship and Vin­cent Fair­fax Foun­da­tion Fel­low in the School of Human­i­ties and Social Sci­ences, UNSW@ADFA.

He works in a diverse range of areas in applied ethics, includ­ing mil­i­tary ethics, police ethics, med­ical ethics, and the prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions of human rights. He has pub­lished and pre­sented in var­i­ous forms in Aus­tralia, the United States, the United King­dom, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

He recently spent an aca­d­e­mic year as the Res­i­dent Fel­low at the Stock­dale Cen­ter for Eth­i­cal Lead­er­ship at the United States Naval Acad­emy, where he was part of a large research project exam­in­ing the eth­i­cal impli­ca­tions of var­i­ous new and devel­op­ing mil­i­tary tech­nolo­gies and helped to brief the Depart­ment of Defense, the US Con­gress and the White House on these issues.

He has worked as a con­sul­tant for the Aus­tralian Defence Force, Food Stan­dards Aus­tralia, the Vic­to­rian Police and the Defence Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Organisation.

His new book on Mil­i­tary Ethics will be pub­lished by Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press in 2012.

He can also make bal­loon and origami ani­mals, jug­gle, breathe fire and ride a uni­cy­cle, though not all at the same time.

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