The grisly terror onslaught against Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that took 253 lives could well have been avoided if a deeply divided government had not failed to act on…
As the Brexit process appears to be drawing to an uncertain close, there are still lessons to be learned from the past three years for the United Kingdom and the…
With his inauguration today, the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky is upon us. Zelensky, a political outsider who ran on an explicitly anti-establishment platform and ousted incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in…
The fractious rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran and its impact on the Middle East.
Charting the rise of illiberal groups in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan.
The challenge facing activists from the former Soviet Union seeking asylum or refuge.
2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the cease fire agreement in the conflict over the former Autonomous Oblast of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-majority area within Azerbaijan during the Soviet-era. The brutal war that ended in May 1994 has been replaced by a bitter stalemate, a ceasefire that is regularly broken by bouts of violence along the line of contact that sees scores of soldiers and civilians killed each year. Seven neighbouring ...
More infoDr Laurence Broers, Caucasus Programme Director, Conciliation Resources
Dr Leila Alieva, SCR member, St Anthony’s College Oxford
Olesya Vartanyan, EU Neighbourhood Analyst, International Crisis Group
Thorniké Gordadzé, Institute of Higher National Defence Studies
Chair: Adam Hug, Director, Foreign Policy Centre
Normandy World Peace Forum, Caen, Abbaye-aux-Dames, France
This Foreign Policy Centre and Article 19 seminar seeks to examine the similarities and differences between the approach being taken by Russia, the UK and a number of EU member states in managing the online lives of their citizens. The event will explore ways to tackle challenges related to protection of freedom of expression online. The seminar will examine how Roskomnadzor, the Russian state censorship agency, operates a blacklist of websites and ...
More infoVicky Ford MP, Science and Technology Select Committee, APPG on Cyber Security
Sarkis Darbinyan, Co-Founder of Roskomsvoboda and Head of the Digital Rights Center
Alexander Isavnin, Internet Protection Society
Barbora Bukovska, Senior Director for Law and Policy, Article 19
James Ball, Author and Journalist
Chair: Ian Lucas MP, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
RSVP on Eventbrite or to events@fpc.org.uk
Committee Room 8, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
This Foreign Policy Centre event is seeking to explore Turkmenistan, perhaps the least well known or understood of the Central Asian states. It will focus on how the country is being governed and what this means for the rule of law, corruption, the economy and human rights in Turkmenistan, while analysing its relations with neighbours and the international community. Turkmenistan is currently in the midst of an economic crisis ...
More infoNigel Mills MP, Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption
Ruslan Myatiev, Editor and Founder, Alternative Turkmenistan News
Eimear O’Casey, Central Asia Researcher, Control Risks
Dr Luca Anceschi, Senior Lecturer in Central Asian Studies, University of Glasgow
Adam Hug, Director, Foreign Policy Centre
Chair: Baroness Vivien Stern, Vice-Chair, Human Rights APPG
IPU (Inter-Parliamentary Union) Room, Houses of Parliament, London, SW1A 0AA
With his inauguration today, the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky is upon us. Zelensky, a political outsider who ran on an explicitly anti-establishment platform and ousted incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in…
The grisly terror onslaught against Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that took 253 lives could well have been avoided if a deeply divided government had not failed to act on…
As the Brexit process appears to be drawing to an uncertain close, there are still lessons to be learned from the past three years for the United Kingdom and the…
Decentralisation is now a core part of the development agenda. Moving resources and powers to local government and closer to communities is widely regarded as essential, if developing countries –…
There has been much discussion in the global media of China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in its far western province of Xinjiang. Meanwhile, much less is known about the Hui,…
As Islamic State faces its demise as a territorial unit in the Middle East it is worth considering why it was so attractive to so many Central Asians The spate…
This report finds that recent changes in EU border management have limited refugees’ movement across Europe, and as such, have resulted in outsourcing of refugee settlement and care to states…
Diasporas have been researched extensively, in both current and historical contexts. This essay is the first in a series that aims to deliver a fresh perspective by focusing on the…
Authoritarian leaders find it hard to tolerate independent voices, and academic freedom is no different. After Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán announced the year of the ‘culture war’, the…
Governments across Europe regularly invoke the threat of terrorism to limit freedom of expression beyond what is permitted under international law. Journalists, activists and ordinary social media users are subject…
The British and the Europeans are not the only two publics, holding their breath and waiting for the outcome of Brexit. Turkey is also observing the situation, hoping for the…
The topic on every internationally minded Chinese person’s lips when in conversation with a Westerner appears to be the US-China trade war. The following text summaries my informal discussions over…
On January 7th 2019,VirtualRoad, the secure hosting project of the Qurium - Media Foundation published[1] a report documenting fresh attacks against Azerbaijan’s oldest opposition newspaper Azadliq’s website (azadliq.info). The report…
Over the last decade, the rise of authoritarian tendencies represents an increasing illiberal wave in international politics. Such a wave is not limited to smaller countries but increasingly typifies the…
At the beginning of December 2018, Egypt-based news outlet Mada Masr revealed that sources from the office of Egyptian President al-Sisi’s office had disclosed the existence of plans already underway…