Events
Security Lectures
Running alongside the Commission’s work, ippr is hosting a series of high-level security lectures from key policymakers. The events are intended to be major policy statements and, as such, significant contributions to public debate in their own right. Read More.
ippr Dinner/Intellect Christmas Defence
with The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson
The first in a series of collaborative events between ippr and Intellect's Defence & Security programme. This launch event, a dinner on the 2nd of December offers the opportunity to examine the industry's work in the context of a changing global security environment. Read more.
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Past Events
Security Lecture with Nick Clegg MP
13 October 2008
At this event, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg MP outlined the threats posed to national and global security by the credit crunch, explaining what the current financial turmoil will mean for international terrorism, crime and conflict, and outlining the steps that policy makers now need to take in order to restore economic stability for the sake of peace.
Read a transcript of Nick Clegg's speech.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a negotiator’s perspective
As part of its regular public Friday Exchange Programme, ippr hosted an event with Moty Cristal, negotiations adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister, at which he discussed the current situation on the ground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the prospect for negotiations going forward. Mr Cristal also looked ahead to the November elections in the United States to analyse what impact a new President will have on the conflict.
A Palestinian perspective on these issues will be explored at a future Friday Exchange in October.
For more information and audio recordings of this event, please click here.
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Gordon Brown delivers a speech on liberty and emerging threats to security in London.
17 June 2008
Gordon Brown has called for modern crime-fighting measures to be embraced and adapted to fit with the principles of individual freedom and liberty. Topics covered included the use of CCTV, DNA technology and the extension of pre-charge detention to 42 days.
Gordon Brown has called for modern crime-fighting measures to be embraced and adapted to fit with the principles of individual freedom and liberty.
In his speech, the Prime Minister also commended the work of ippr's Commisison on National Security.
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You can also read a transcript at the Number 10 website.
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Whitehall Paper Launch
Global Inequality and Security Policy: A British Perspective
17 June 2008
While there has long been a progressive strand in British foreign policy that seeks to address global inequality, the political mainstream has recently accepted the need for new, proactive approaches to this problem. A new Whitehall paper explores the links between global inequality and insecurity. It offers a detailed analysis of the challenges facing UK policymakers and examines the possible implications for UK foreign policy, offering a number of recommendations moving forward.
The launch event, hosted by ippr and RUSI and chaired by Dr. Ian Kearns, featured a lecture on the paper by author Malcolm Chalmers, as well as a question and answer session. Copies of the report can be ordered here.
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28 May 2008
Recordings from this event can now be downloaded:
Crime Without Frontiers Part 1 (mp3)
Crime Without Frontiers Part 2 (mp3)
Crime Without Frontiers Part 3 (mp3)
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In an increasingly interconnected world, transnational organised crime is becoming a more prominent threat than ever before. At this event, distinguished historian and journalist Misha Glenny discussed his recent book McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers, in which he explores the unprecedented levels of consumer demand for drugs, trafficked women, illegal labour and arms across five continents. He also argued that conventional policing methods are no longer appropriate to deal with a problem whose roots lie in global poverty and the ever widening divisions between rich and poor.
Misha was joined as a respondent at this event by Bill Hughes (Director General of the Serious Organised Crime Agency).
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Multilateral Nuclear Disarmanent
25 April 2008
ippr and the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) held a small expert roundtable on multilateral nuclear disarmament. This session provided an opportunity to discuss growing political elite support on both sides of the Atlantic for moving towards multilateral nuclear disarmament, and the prospects for achieving a nuclear weapons free world. Participants included Paul Ingram (BASIC) and US Ambassadors Bob Barry and James Barker.
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The Second World: Empires and Influences in the New Global Order
04 April 2008
ippr hosted a Friday Exchange with Parag Khanna, Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, at which he discussed his new book, 'The Second World: Empires and Influences in the New Global Order'. Featured in a special 'Year in Ideas' edition of the New York Times Magazine, Khanna suggests that a new geopolitical context has emerged in which the United States, the European Union and China are struggling for dominance in the 'second world': a group of the world’s most strategic countries that are located between or on the peripheries of these three dominant empires.
You can download the recordings of this event via the links below:
Parag Khanna part 1 (.mp3)
Parag Khanna part 2 (.mp3)
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A European Way of Security
21 January 2008
This event provided an opportunity to discuss the recent Madrid Report of the Human Security Study Group, A European Way of Security, which was presented to EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana in November 2007.
Download the audio of this event:
European way part 1 (mp3)
European way part 2 (mp3)
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