Conflict and authoritarianism are on the rise. This won’t surprise anyone reading about events in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and elsewhere. The new UK International Development Strategy (IDS), published in May…
In March 2021, the UK launched ‘Global Britain in a Competitive Age: the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy’. At the heart of the Integrated Review was…
London is a hotspot for issuing SLAPP cases against journalists stifling media freedom here &…
The Media Freedom Coalition requires a 're-injection of energy' according to a new evaluation.
A ‘Force for Good’?: Examining UK engagement in Fragile and Conflict Affected Countries
Examining the importance of open societies to the UK’s ‘force for good’ ambitions.
This event will examine how best to strengthen health systems in developing countries and the role the UK can play in supporting such initiatives. The Government’s 2021 Integrated Review identified Global Health as one of its 12 strategic framework areas that will see a new British approach. Under the heading ‘Global Health’ it states that ‘we will work to strengthen global health security, including through the Prime Minister’s five-point plan to bolster ...
More infoChair: Preet Kaur Gill MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Dr Neema Kaseje, Founding Director of the Surgical Systems Research Group in Kisamu, Kenya and a visiting surgeon for Kids Operating Room and for Doctors Without Borders
Ben Simms, CEO of the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET)
Professor Dina Balabanova, Professor of Health Systems and Policy at LSHTM
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Room, Houses of Parliament, London, SW1A 0AA
The Ukrainian war calls into question Russia's ability to act as a security guarantor for Karabakh Armenians. There is little to suggest that Moscow is inclined to challenge Azerbaijan's sovereignty…
Conflict and authoritarianism are on the rise. This won’t surprise anyone reading about events in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and elsewhere. The new UK International Development Strategy (IDS), published in May…
In March 2021, the UK launched ‘Global Britain in a Competitive Age: the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy’. At the heart of the Integrated Review was…
Summary Vladimir Dubrovskiy is a political economist based in Kyiv (Senior Economist at CASE Ukraine). In his commentary, Vladimir shares his understandably raw and personal views on what lies behind…
At a FPC event this week, we learnt three things about Britain, its constituent territories and the EU.[1] Firstly, that the UK’s engagement in the EU since Brexit does not…
Talks between China and the US in Rome on 14 March 2022 ended inconclusively, dashing any tentative hopes for enlisting China in western efforts to end the war in Ukraine…
We are all rightly focused on massive Russian military build-ups around Ukraine. The most recent, and potentially most menacing, is in Belarus. Grabbing control of Belarus in the process makes…
As the war in Syria heads into its second decade, the search for a comprehensive peace settlement remains elusive. This is not for want of trying. The United Nations, backed…
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 it was a great victory for democracy. Experts purported the end of history and many anticipated that a linear progress away from authoritarianism…
Citing the Basque Country as an example of inclusive economic growth may, at first, seem to many rather a paradox. In the context of Spain’s model of devolution, the Basque…
President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy took place virtually at the end of last week. Attended by a large number of nations whose leaders made a slew of welcome policy…
The nature of conflict in the world is shifting, along with the challenges they present for the UK. The number of violent conflicts today is as high as at any…
The foreign policy of the United Kingdom (UK) is undergoing a period of evolution and adaptation, responding to: a changing geopolitical context; a different set of relationships with allies and…
In the aftermath of the Cold War, the future trajectory of the world seemed assured. The political philosopher Francis Fukuyama even wrote an obituary of the past, proclaiming the end…
UK involvement in peacebuilding and peacemaking has taken steps forwards and backwards over the last ten years. We have a better understanding of conflict, its drivers and relationship to inclusive…