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.
Everyday Transnational Repression / CAPE 3.0 launch
This webinar, hosted by the Foreign Policy Centre in partnership with Freedom House and the University of Exeter, highlights recent trends on Transnational Repression in the age of Globalization. Drawing from the Freedom House Special Report, Perspectives on “Everyday” Transnational Repression in an Age of Globalization, the event will examine how authoritarian states exercise influence and maintain control over their populations abroad, from exceptional measures such as assassination to everyday modes ...
More infoDr Fiona Adamson, Reader in International Relations at SOAS
Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas, Senior Lecturer and Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion for the School of Government at the University of Birmingham
Dr Marcus Michaelsen, Senior and Postdoctoral Researcher at LSTS Research Group
Dr Dana Moss, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame
Professor John Heathershaw or Dr Saipira Furstenberg at the University of Exeter
Chair: Nate Schenkkan, Director for Special Research at Freedom House
The event will take place on Zoom.
Religion and Forced Displacement in the Eastern Orthodox World
This webinar is being held to examine findings of a new Aston Centre for Europe and Foreign Policy Centre publication Religion and Forced Displacement in the Eastern Orthodox World. The event and publication will examine the relationship between religion-state relations, forced displacement, religious diplomacy and human security in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, with a focus on eight countries in the region, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine. ...
More infoDr Lucian N. Leustean, Reader in Politics and International Relations at Aston University
Dr Jasmine Dum-Tragut, Head of the Center for the Study of the Christian East and the Department for Armenian Studies at the University of Salzburg
Dr Dmytro Vovk, Head of the Centre for the Rule of Law and Religion Studies, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv and member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief
Dr Daniela Kalkandjieva, Independent Bulgarian scholar affiliated with Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski
Dr Tornike Metreveli, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
The event will take place on Zoom.
Spotlight on Uzbekistan
This Foreign Policy Centre event will debate the findings of a new essay collection – ‘Spotlight on Uzbekistan’ – that examines in detail the evolution of Uzbekistan under the presidency of Shavkat Mirziyoyev since late 2016. It assesses the depth, breadth and potential longevity of the much vaunted reform programme, looking at what has worked and where there is still more to do. The event and publication will examine issues ...
More infoSteve Swerdlow, Human Rights Researcher (University of Southern California/UNDP)
Navbahor Imamova, Journalist at Voice of America (Uzbek Service/Amerika Ovozi)
Nikita Makarenko, Journalist (Uzreport TV) and blogger
Dilmira Matyakubova, Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre
Chair: Adam Hug, Director of the Foreign Policy Centre and Editor of Spotlight on Uzbekistan
The event will take place on Zoom.
Shifting sands: an uncertain future for the Middle East in the 2020s
This virtual seminar hosted by the Foreign Policy Centre in partnership with the SEPAD (Sectarianism, Proxies & De-sectarianisation) project at the Richardson Institute for Peace at the University of Lancaster will examine the future of the Middle East in 2020 and beyond. The role of the US in the region is increasingly contested and Washington’s key allies – Saudi Arabia and other GCC states – have felt increasingly pressure from ...
More infoWayne David MP, Shadow Middle East Minister
Dr May Darwich, Lecturer in international relations of the Middle East at the University of Birmingham
Dr Simon Mabon, Director of SEPAD and the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies at Lancaster University
Dr Edward Wastnidge, Deputy Director of the SEPAD project
Chair: Bel Trew, Middle East Correspondent of the Independent
The event will take place on Zoom.
Finding Britain’s role in a changing world: building a values based foreign policy
This Foreign Policy Centre and Oxfam event will launch our new collection of short essays that seeks to re-examine and re-imagine the UK’s foreign policy and discuss its findings about how Britain can best respond to global challenges. The collection of essays features the panellists listed, as well as Rt Hon Tobias Ellwood MP (Chair of the Defence Select Committee), Caroline Lucas MP (former Green Party Leader), Stephen Twigg (former ...
More infoBaroness Anelay, Chair of the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Select Committee
Lord McConnell, Former First Minister of Scotland
Theo Clarke MP, Member of the International Development Select Committee
Dr Emily Jones, Global Economic Governance Programme, Blavatnik School of Government at University of Oxford
Danny Sriskandarajah, Chief Executive, Oxfam GB
Chair: Adam Hug, Director, The Foreign Policy Centre
Committee Room 12, Houses of Parliament, London, SW1A 0AA
Getting to the truth: Using open source data to defend human rights
From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before. Modern technology—and the enhanced access it provides to information about abuse—has the potential to revolutionise both human rights reporting, and documentation, as well as the pursuit of legal accountability. However, these new methods for information gathering and dissemination, have also ...
More infoChris Bryant MP
Dr Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of California Berkeley
Sam Dubberley, Special Advisor to the Evidence Lab at Amnesty International
Dr Daragh Murray, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Essex
Chair: Anne Koch, Program Director at the Global Investigative Journalism Network
Committee Room 11, Houses of Parliament, London, SW1A 0AA
Coming to terms with Kosovo’s past: civil society, transitional justice and historical accounting
This Foreign Policy Centre seminar, in partnership with the University of Lancaster, will look at the role played by non-state actors and particularly journalists in re-establishing a shared historical record in post-conflict societies, with a particular focus on Kosovo. In a Kosovan context where state-sponsored initiatives for transitional justice may lack capacity and struggle to gain the confidence of all communities, this seminar will examine the vital role journalists and ...
More infoBaroness Helic, Board Member, Trust Fund for Victims, International Criminal Court
Professor James A. Sweeney, Centre for International Law and Human Rights (CILHR), University of Lancaster
Dr Birte Julia Gippert, University of Liverpool
Dr Florian Qehaja, Chair of the Board, Kosovar Centre for Security Studies
Chair: Adam Hug, Director, The Foreign Policy Centre
Listen to an audio recording of the event here.
Grimond Room, Portcullis House, London, SW1A 2JR
The Gulf States: An Aspired Future
We are pleased to confirm we are taking part in an all-day conference covering political reform, human rights and media freedom in the Gulf, alongside ALQST: Advocating for Human Rights, DIWAN LONDON, SALAM: For Democracy and Human Rights, Muwatin Media Network and Lancaster University. This event aims to identify some of the main challenges facing the region, from undemocratic governance to a lack of civic space and free press, highlighting ...
More infoDr James Worrall, University of Leeds
Yahya Assiri, ALQST
Dr Simon Mabon, Lancaster University
Rhodri Davies, Writer & journalist
Adel Marzooq, Gulf House
Safa Al Ahmad, Filmmaker
Bill Law, The Gulf Matters
Juliet Wells, Temple Garden Chambers
Dr Marc Valeri,University of Exeter
Anwar Rasheed, Gulf Forum for Civil Society Organisations
Drewery Dyke, Rights Realization Centre
Dr Haifaa Khalafallah, Sinai Centre for Islamic Mediterranean Studies
Sheikha Aljasim, Kuwait University
Taif Al Khudary, LSE Middle East Center
Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International
Tara Reynor O’Grady, SALAM
Mohammed al-Fazari, Muwatin Media Network
Matthew Hedges, Durham University
Jawad Fairooz, SALAM
Josh Cooper, ALQST and SALAM
Sahar al-Faifi, Civil rights activist
Adam Hug, Foreign Policy Centre
The Yaa Centre, 1 Chippenham Mews, London W9 2AN
Human Rights Behind Unsettled Borders
The situation of human rights in de facto states of Europe such as Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and South Ossetia often stay outside of the spotlight of the international attention. In order to shed light on current situation in de facto states, the side-event will gather speakers who directly work on the ground and can share first-hand experience of existing challenges and available means of solution. There will also be a ...
More infoBjørn Engesland, Secretary General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
Adam Hug, Director, Foreign Policy Centre
Kirill Koroteev, Lawyer, Agora
Ilya Nuzov, Head of Eastern Europe and Central Asia Desk, FIDH
Gayane Hambardzumyan, Human Rights Activist, Nagorno-Karabakh
Asida Lomia , Human rights activist, Abkhazia
Emil Andre Erstad, The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (Moderator)
Meeting Room 1 (PGE Narodowy), Warsaw National Stadium, OSCE HDIM
Solutions to Sectarianism? Examining efforts at ‘de-sectarianisation’ across the Middle East
On 10 September the Foreign Policy Centre and the Richardson Institute at the University of Lancaster hosted a conference entitled Solutions to Sectarianism? Examining efforts at ‘de-sectarianisation’ across the Middle East, part of the Sectarianism, Proxies & De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project. The conference explored the role of sectarian identities in an increasingly complex and fluid Middle East. It seeked to move forward from the analysis of the regional situation provided by ...
More infoDr Simon Mabon, Lancaster University
Dr Morten Valbjørn, Aarhus University
Samira Nasirzadeh, Lancaster University
Dr Edward Wastnidge, Open University
Adam Hug, Foreign Policy Centre
Professor Toby Dodge, LSE
Fanar Haddad, National University of Singapore
Ana Maria Kumarasamy, Lancaster University
Dr Staci Strobl, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Thomas Fibiger, Aarhus University
Drewery Dyke, Rights Realisation Centre
Anne Kirstine Rønn, Aarhus University
Dr Bassel Salloukh, Lebanese American University
Simona Sikimic-French, Islamic Relief
Dr Sana Al Sarghali, An-Najah National University
Dr Mohammad Yaghi, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Work Foundation, 21 Palmer St, Westminister, London SW1H 0AD