9 - 13 July, 2017
Taking place in the run-up to the German Federal Election, in the midst of the Brexit negotiations, and against the backdrop of a changing international order, this year’s British German Forum (BGF) explored the way…
28 - 30 June, 2017
The last 15 years have seen fast economic growth in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, there is a need to translate these factors into sustained poverty reduction through greater productivity, better job creation and greater shared…
19 - 20 June, 2017
Tuberculosis (TB) is humanity’s greatest infectious killer. Seventy years since the discovery of antibiotics, and twenty four years after being declared a global health emergency, TB remains the world’s deadliest communicable disease. Every year over…
14 - 17 June, 2017
This meeting asked: Are changes in the global security environment of a sufficiently fundamental kind to alter core premises of Western deterrence strategies? What implications follow for the cooperative efforts of the transatlantic community to…
12 - 14 June, 2017
There are more slaves today than at any other time in history- estimated at over 45 million globally, with 13,000 in the UK, at any one time. No country is unaffected and slavery is escalating,…
22 - 24 May, 2017
The increasing use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a growing number of contexts has led to the issue featuring more and more prominently on disarmament and security policy agendas. In particular, the scale and…
15 - 17 May, 2017
Recent research has shown that abortion quality is measured in varied and sometimes contradictory ways and researchers have called for agreement on common measures as a key way to monitor and improve quality. Metrics for…
29 - 31 March, 2017
This was a three day meeting of some 40 Colombian and international diplomats, policy-makers, scholars, activists and members of NGO and civil society organisations. In this event, they analysed the most innovative aspects of the…
19 - 21 March, 2017
Previous events in our ‘African perspectives on peacebuilding’ series have assessed the development of African approaches to peacebuilding in response to the changing dynamics of conflict and emergence of new conflict actors on the continent.…
15 - 17 March, 2017
The expert exchange, developed in partnership with the FCO and the US based EastWest Institute, brought together up to 50 practitioners for creative engagement on new approaches to decentralised diplomacy in an increasingly networked world.…
