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International Day of the Peacekeepers 17th Annual Conference: The Thin Blue Line
23 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall
Now in its 17th year, the conference will focus on challenges and opportunities that face contemporary UN peacekeeping as the Secretary General’s Action For Peacekeeping agenda is endorsed by a...
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Launch Event: Task Force on the Future of UK Sanctions Policy
28 May 2019, 17:00As the UK prepares to leave the European Union it is at a critical juncture of its sanctions policy. While the government has established the necessary architecture to continue to design and...
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Modern Deterrence Conference 2019
29 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall
To deter modern warfare techniques and other emerging threats, Western countries need comprehensive defence strategies and plans. Given that hybrid warfare (also known as threshold or grey zone...
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Reflections on D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
30 May 2019, 18:15RUSI Whitehall
The Normandy Landings that took place on 6 June 1944 involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply enormous. What followed was some of the most...
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Paper Launch: A Civil Approach to Tackling Criminal Finances
11 June 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
This approach forms part of a long-standing global policy imperative which acknowledges that prison sentences have only a limited impact against criminality in the longer term; using powers which...
UK PONI Members Only
UK PONI: SIGNAL Wargame
12 June 2019, 14:00UK PONI will be hosting a research study in collaboration with the Project on Nuclear Gaming (PoNG), a University of California-Berkeley (UCB) led effort in partnership with experts and practitioners...
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UK PONI Annual Conference 2019
13 June 2019, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
The 2019 Annual Conference will gather established and emerging experts from academia, industry, government and the military to share insights and debate on a broad range of civil and military topics...
Proliferation and Nuclear PolicyInvite Only
Countering malicious use of social media
18 June 2019, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
In late 2018 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence explored the risks posed by the vast amount of personal information disseminated online. A number of highly publicised cases have shown...
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Alfred Nobel and the Causes of Peace
18 June 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel, the arms manufacturer and deterrence enthusiast, signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian...
Lieutenant General Christian Badia on European Military Capability Development: A Way Forward
09 July 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Today, the European Union (EU) is facing a variety of challenges. In addition to internal restructuring, the enlargement of the EU or...
188th RUSI Annual General Meeting
19 July 2019, 16:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
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International Day of the Peacekeepers 17th Annual Conference: The Thin Blue Line
23 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Now in its 17th year, the conference will focus on challenges and opportunities that face contemporary UN peacekeeping as the Secretary General’s Action For Peacekeeping agenda is endorsed by a...
Modern Deterrence Conference 2019
29 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
To deter modern warfare techniques and other emerging threats, Western countries need comprehensive defence strategies and plans. Given that hybrid warfare (also known as threshold or grey zone...
UK PONI Annual Conference 2019
13 June 2019, 8:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The 2019 Annual Conference will gather established and emerging experts from academia, industry, government and the military to share insights and debate on a broad range of civil and military topics...
Countering the Financing of North Korea’s WMD Programme: from Sanctions to Crypto
22 May 2019, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
Speakers will include Kayla Izenman, Research Analyst RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies and author of ‘Closing the Crypto Gap: Guidance for Countering North Korean Cryptocurrency Activity in Southeast Asia’ and Darya Dolzikova,...
The Inaugural JC Lord Lecture with WO1 Glenn Haughton OBE
22 May 2019, 15:30RUSI Whitehall
The lecture takes its name from RSM John C Lord MVO MBE, known for his exemplary leadership skills. His service in the Second World War included taking part in the seaborne operation to land at Taranto as part of the Allied invasion of Italy, and...
The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East
21 May 2019, 12:15RUSI Whitehall
Professor David Phillips will discuss one of the longest running conundrums in US Middle East policy, that of Washington’s position on the Kurds. His latest book The Great Betrayal: How American Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East (...
Yemen: A Pathway to Reconciliation
16 May 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
The Yemeni civil war has now entered its fifth year and shows little sign of abating, with an estimated 12,000 civilian casualties, and a further 24 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. While the Stockholm peace talks in December...
Rising Nuclear Risk, Disarmament and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
16 May 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
In its report the Committee calls on the Government to address grave concerns about the deteriorating state of nuclear diplomacy. For nearly 25 years since the end of the Cold War, the risks posed by nuclear weapons ceased to be a priority amongst...
First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference 2019
15 May 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
The Royal Navy appears confident in its utility and its strategic messaging. 2017 was the Year of the Navy, in 2018 the Royal Navy Expanded its Maritime Horizons and this year’s intent is Delivering Global Influence. Is this renewed confidence...
73rd Annual Kermit Roosevelt Lecture
14 May 2019, 14:45RUSI Whitehall
At a time when the United States and Britain are reorienting their armed forces from counter insurgency to peer competition, with a common focus on readiness, modernisation, and the integration of capabilities, General Michael Garrett discusses the...
RUSI Financial Crime 2.0 Workshop: Money Laundering via Online Businesses
10 May 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
To prevent criminal misuse of these businesses, it is necessary to understand money-laundering risks facing them and develop responses that reflect their non-face-to-face nature and cross-border customer base. This invitation-only workshop is...
Breakfast Briefing: Strategic Autonomy and European Defence
10 May 2019, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
The idea of the European Union achieving its own military capabilities has been in and out of fashion since the organisation has existed. Yet following the 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, there has been renewed and...
Framing Competition and Deterrence in US Strategy
09 May 2019, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Senior US defence leaders have in recent years increasingly referred to the return of great power competition and the need to adapt defence strategy to this increasingly salient feature of geopolitics, with the publication of 2018 National Defense...
Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners: The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War
08 May 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
When Winston Churchill took over as Secretary of State for War in January 1919, his top priority was the overthrow of the Bolshevik government in Moscow. His greatest military commitment lay in the Arctic Circle where 10,000 British and American...
Sudan and Financial Crime: Assessing the Current State of Affairs
17 April 2019, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
The Sentry is composed of financial forensic investigators, policy analysts, and regional experts who follow the dirty money and build investigative cases focusing on the corrupt transnational networks most responsible for Africa’s deadliest...
POSTPONED: The Security and the North Sea Conference
16 April 2019, 10:00The North Sea is one of Europe’s vital arteries for trade as well as being the location of some key natural resources including food and energy for the countries that border it. In the era of returning state competition its linkages to other...
GIFCT Expert Workshop “Mapping the Jihadist information ecosystem: Towards the 3rd Generation of Disruption Capability”
16 April 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
The project, 'Mapping the Jihadist information ecosystem: Towards the 3rd Generation of Disruption Capability', will produce a network map of the traffic between the online platforms and websites jihadists use to construct their information...
The Pathway to Stabilisation in Yemen
11 April 2019, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
The UN has declared the situation in Yemen the world’s largest humanitarian emergency with 22 million people needing lifesaving assistance. The impact on Yemeni society and the country’s fragile infrastructure has been devastating.This panel...
The Russian Ambassador who Overreached: Why Russia’s Approach to Belarus Could Change
The End of the Two-State Solution to the Israel–Palestine Conflict? Turkey and the Kushner Plan
Reflections from the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting