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…
8 - 10 May, 2017
This meeting was designed as an opportunity for global experts on various aspects of meningitis, health systems and patient advocacy to collectively think about long term goals towards defeating meningitis by 2030. It was envisaged…
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.…
13 - 15 March, 2017
This event brought together representatives of government, industry, and the scientific community from developed and developing nations to assess the prospects for improving the governance of human activity in outer space. The economic security of…
13 - 15 March, 2017
The term ‘rules-based international system’ (RBIS) is often used to denote the international norms, laws and institutions that have helped to shape, influence and regulate relations between countries since the end of the Second World…
10 - 12 March, 2017
This event looked at creating an explicit trade and development agenda for the Commonwealth and provide a consensus-based framework for negotiations. Participants discussed how this fits in the international trading picture and the role Commonwealth…
8 - 10 March, 2017
This meeting was organised in partnership with the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Gilead Sciences. The Honourable Richard Kamwi, former Minister of Health and Social Services of Namibia,…
