Events
The Foreign Policy Centre holds events to engage the public in debates around key international affairs issues. These include seminars, conferences, keynote speeches and expert roundtables. The majority of events will take place in London but the FPC will work with partners to hold events in other UK Cities and internationally. To listen to recordings of previous events visit our YouTube page or click on past events. For general enquiries about our events, please email: events@fpc.org.uk.
Suppressing Stories: How legal threats and challenges impact investigative journalism
Legal threats against journalists are far from a new phenomenon. Yet in recent years there has been a rising level of concern about the misuse of legal action to inhibit journalism, particularly by those wishing to prevent exposure of their wrong-doing as opposed to address a genuine grievance. Often described as strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPPs), the aim of such action is to intimidate journalists into not publishing information ...
More infoGill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Services, Guardian News & Media
Franz Wild, Editor and Reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Jessica Ní Mhainín, Policy & Campaigns Manager, Index on Censorship
Susan Coughtrie, Project Director, Foreign Policy Centre
Chair: Chris Matheson MP, Shadow Minister for Media
The event will take place on Zoom.
Investigating Corruption: US versus UK – A Widening Transatlantic Divide?
Barely into the start of 2021 and events around the world have brought the question of global corruption and the fight against it sharply into focus. Noticeable is the increasing divergence between governing authorities in the US and UK’s approach towards tackling anti-corruption and money laundering. The new Biden administration has clearly identified corruption as ‘a core national security interest’ and recent ‘historic’ legislation passed through US Congress takes aim ...
More infoTom Burgis, investigative journalist at The Financial Times and author of ‘Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World’
Casey Michel, US investigative journalist and author of upcoming book ‘American Kleptocracy’
Dr Tena Prelec, Research Fellow with the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford
Dr Sue Hawley, Executive Director of Spotlight on Corruption
Chair: Susan Coughtrie, Project Director at the Foreign Policy Centre
The event will take place on Zoom.
Central Asian (neo) Conservatism: National identity, civic freedoms and the challenge of protecting women’s and minority rights
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) in Central Asia in cooperation with the Foreign Policy Center London would like to invite you to their first joint online discussion. The event will discuss the growing tendency to «return to traditional conservative values», discrimination of rights and freedom of minority groups and the overall growing influence of conservatively minded groups in Central Asia. Watch the video recording of the ...
More infoGulzat Baialieva, PhD candidate at the University of Tuebingen
Prof. Eric McGlinchey, Associate Professor of Politics at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
Nazima Davletova, Adjunct Professor at Webster University in Tashkent, Independent Researcher
Chair: Adam Hug, Director of the Foreign Policy Centre
The event will take place on Zoom.
Building a lasting peace? Power sharing and sectarian identities in Yemen
The FPC is working again with the SEPAD (Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation) project at the Richardson Institute for Peace at Lancaster University on a series of virtual public seminars focused on peacebuilding in Lebanon, Bosnia, Syria and Yemen. The project will address each country situation individually but it will seek to learn from the experiences of Lebanon and Bosnia (both the successes and ongoing/growing problems) in terms of power sharing and ...
More infoMaysaa Shuja Al-deen, Non-resident Fellow at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies
Professor Simon Mabon, Director of the SEPAD project
Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Non-resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute
Kate Nevens, Non-resident Consultant with the Yemen Policy Center
Chair: Wayne David MP, Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa
The event will take place on Zoom.
Retreating Rights: Examining the pressure on human rights in Kyrgyzstan
This virtual event will discuss the findings of an upcoming Foreign Policy Centre publication entitled Retreating Rights: Examining the pressure on human rights in Kyrgyzstan. The speed, scope and outcome of the political upheaval following the October 2020 Parliamentary elections may have shocked the watching world, but the flaws and fragility in Kyrgyzstan political system had been clear for some time. This event and new publication will seek to provide ...
More infoDr. Aijan Sharshenova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at OSCE Academy
Begaim Usenova, Director of Media Policy Institute
Shirin Aitmatova, Founder of UMUT 2020
Dr Aksana Ismailbekova, Postdoctoral Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Chair: Adam Hug, Director, Foreign Policy Centre
Listen to an audio recording of the event here.
The event will take place on Zoom.
Building a lasting peace? Power sharing and sectarian identities in Syria
The FPC is working again with the SEPAD (Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation) project at the Richardson Institute for Peace at Lancaster University on a series of virtual public seminars focused on peacebuilding in Lebanon, Bosnia, Syria and Yemen. The project will address each country situation individually but it will seek to learn from the experiences of Lebanon and Bosnia (both the successes and ongoing/growing problems) in terms of power sharing and how ...
More infoAlison McGovern MP, Co-Chair of the APPG Friends of Syria
Bilal Sukkar, Middle East & North Africa Programme Coordinator at Saferworld
Dr Abdalhadi Alijla, Co-Leader of Global Migration and Human Rights at Global Young Academy
Dr Rahaf Aldoughli, Lecturer in Middle East and North African Studies at Lancaster University
Chair: Adam Hug, Director of the FPC
The event will take place on Zoom.
Building a lasting peace? Power sharing and sectarian identities in Bosnia
The FPC is working again with the SEPAD (Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation) project at the Richardson Institute for Peace at Lancaster University on a series of virtual public seminars focused on peacebuilding in Lebanon, Bosnia, Syria and Yemen. The project will address each country situation individually but it will seek to learn from the experiences of Lebanon and Bosnia (both the successes and ongoing/growing problems) in terms of power sharing and how ...
More infoBaroness Helic, Board Member of the International Criminal Court Trust Fund for Victims
Dr Allison McCulloch, Associate Professor at Brandon University
Ian Bancroft, Writer, diplomat and Programme Manager at the Peaceful Change Initiative
Anne Kirstine Rønn, PhD student at Aarhus University and attached to SEPAD
Chair: Fleur Anderson MP, Vice Chair of APPG for Bosnia and Herzegovina
The event will take place on Zoom.
Building a lasting peace? Power sharing and sectarian identities in Lebanon
The FPC is working again with the SEPAD (Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation) project at the Richardson Institute for Peace at Lancaster University on a series of virtual public seminars focused on peacebuilding in Lebanon, Bosnia, Syria and Yemen. The project will address each country situation individually but it will seek to learn from the experiences of Lebanon and Bosnia (both the successes and ongoing/growing problems) in terms of power sharing ...
More infoProf John Nagle, Professor at Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Ibrahim Halawi, Teaching Fellow in International Relations at the Royal Holloway, University of London
Sami Atallah, former Director at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
Leila Molana-Allen, Freelance foreign correspondent in Beirut reporting for PBS NewsHour and BBC radio
Chair: Anna McMorrin MP, Shadow International Development Minister
The event will take place on Zoom.
Unsafe for scrutiny – International Anti-Corruption Day event
Unsafe for scrutiny: How the misuse of the UK’s financial and legal systems to facilitate corruption undermines the freedom and safety of investigative journalists around the world. This webinar, held on International Anti-Corruption Day, will launch the Foreign Policy Centre’s latest publication in the Unsafe for Scrutiny series, which will examine the impact that the UK’s continued role as a key facilitator of global financial crime and corruption has ...
More infoClare Rewcastle Brown, UK journalist at The Sarawak Report
Pavla Holcová, Czech journalist, Founder of Investigace.cz and Editor for Central Europe at OCCRP
Ben Cowdock, Investigations Lead at Transparency International UK
Susan Coughtrie, Project Director at the Foreign Policy Centre
Chair: Nigel Mills MP, Co-Chair of the APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
The event will take place on Zoom.
Spotlight on Uzbekistan: Examining four years of Mirziyoyev’s rule
This event, took place on the fourth anniversary of President Mirziyoyev’s election as President, will seek to take stock of the current political and social situation in Uzbekistan. It will look at what has changed since 2016 and what has not, assessing what the much talked about reform process has delivered and where there is more to do. It will discuss the key issues identified in the July 2020 Spotlight ...
More infoProfessor Kristian Lasslett, University of Ulster & Co-Director of UzInvestigations
Dilmurad Yusupov, University of Sussex
Dilfuza Kurolova, Human Rights Lawyer
Adam Hug, Director of the Foreign Policy Centre
Chair: Baroness Suttie, Vice-Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group on Uzbekistan
The event will take place on Zoom.