'How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?'

Four panel sessions of an informed debate on conscientious objection from legal, philosophical, theological and religious perspectives, and finally a discussion on how legislators and governments in liberal democracies should react to claims of conscience. Panels Concepts of Conscience Conscience in Legal Perspective: Challenges and Controversies Theological and Religious Perspectives on Conscience Reacting to Conscience Claims in the Public Square Chairs Mr Bryan Dobson, presenter of the RTÉ Radio News at One Professor Bert Gordijn, Director of the Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University Dr Mary McAleese, Professor of Children, Law and Religion, University of Glasgow Professor David Smith, Healthcare Ethics, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Panellists Dr John Adenitire, Queen Mary, University of London Professor Kimberley Brownlee, The University of British Columbia Professor Fiona de Londras, University of Birmingham Dr Katherine Furman, University of Liverpool Advocate General Gerard Hogan, Court of Justice of the European Union Professor Linda Hogan, Trinity College Dublin Professor David Albert Jones, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre Professor Ronan McCrea, University College London Senator Michael McDowell, Houses of the Oireachtas Dr Regina McQuillan, St Francis Hospice Professor David Novak, University of Toronto