Power and Capability: Ideas of Justice

Location:	Live Webcast
Event Date:	March 15, 2010

The Open Society Institute has partnered with Demos, a leading London-based think tank, to develop a lecture series on critical issues affecting open societies around the world.

The first of these lectures features Nobel Laureate professor Amartya Sen with a talk entitled "Power and Capability: Ideas of Justice." The lecture will feature an address by OSI president Aryeh Neier, in addition to political figures from the United Kingdom including Ed Miliband, UK secretary of state for energy and climate change.

The event will be webcast live. Listen in at www.demos.co.uk.

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