6 - 8 September, 2017
The effective management of crises very often requires access to specialist scientific and technical advice. Recent crises such as the 2010 Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption, the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, floods in central Europe…
4 - 6 September, 2017
Coal-fired power generation has come under increasing criticism since the Paris Agreement in 2015, when 195 countries agreed to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The particular…
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…
26 - 28 June, 2017
This meeting assessed ways that emerging threats to, and opportunities for, nuclear security can be identified; how effectively the nuclear security architecture is able to respond to such threats and opportunities; and how it could…
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,…
7 - 9 June, 2017
The Wilton Park Youth Dialogues is a series of events that will be held throughout 2017 and 2018 with a specific focus on the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The dialogues will bring together young people,…
5 - 7 June, 2017
This meeting, held in partnership with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) of the European…
