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RUSI is the podium of choice for world leaders and senior policymakers, and is ideally placed to attract high-quality speakers and participants at its events. These vary in size and format from set-piece lectures to conferences and seminars.

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
10 March 2021, 16:00In 2010, a group of Russian deep cover ‘sleeper agents’ were arrested in the US. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and...

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
17 March 2021, 16:00Bellingcat has redefined the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Its founder tells the story of how he and his team...

Future War and the Defence of Europe
01 April 2021, 14:00Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and do this very differently, all that they now take...
Combat Air Power 2021: Competing Visions for the Future
24 March 2021, 9:30Each of the three efforts is aiming to eventually field a family of systems which will work together to deliver future air power effects. However, exactly what form this family of systems will take...
Precision Strike in 21st Century Multidomain Operations
13 May 2021, 12:00The ‘democratisation’ of access to long-range precision strike assets once thought to be components of an exclusively Western revolution in military affairs will have important ramifications for the...
International Day of the UN Peacekeeper 2020 - Brigadier-General Maureen O'Brien
29 May 2020, 12:00In association with the United Nations Association UK.
Mapping a Pandemic: Managing Instability - The Pandemic and Conflict
28 May 2020, 14:00They will discuss the impact of Covid- 19 on the delivery of aid, working with warring parties and militias, and other security challenges. Confirmed Panellists include: General (Ret'd) James Cowan CBE DSO, Chief Executive Officer, The HALO...
The Corona Lessons: Learning from New Zealand's Fight Against Coronavirus
28 May 2020, 8:00New Zealand, with a population some five million, has only had 1,499 coronavirus infections and 21 deaths. That makes it a global standout performer in combatting the virus. It owes its success to early and strict intervention. On 15 May, with no...
Extreme Communication: Strategic Communications in the Contemporary International Landscape
27 May 2020, 14:00The challenge comes from extremist actors ranging from the Islamic State to far-right organisations, and their increasingly sophisticated use of tools and approaches both online and offline. In this online event, guest editor Alastair Reed spoke...
Royal Navy / RUSI Digital Seminar: The Role of the Navy in National Resilience
22 May 2020, 14:30The immediate ramifications of unforeseen disruptions as well as their second order effects with regards to trade and global stability will require navies to coordinate with civilian and non-governmental agencies to deliver a whole of government...
Mapping a Pandemic: Britain and Europe After The Pandemic
21 May 2020, 14:00Mapping the Pandemic Series For many opponents of Britain’s membership in the European Union, the chief argument in favour of Brexit was the EU’s alleged determination to transform itself into a “superstate”. But as the current coronavirus...
Covid-19: What’s next for financial crime policy and digital identity
19 May 2020, 15:00Overnight, the Covid-19 pandemic has fueled the flames of financial crime policy debates that have been burning for a number of years – including what effective identification should look like in a digital era. We now are faced with the question:...
RUSI Terrorism and Conflict Research Group Launch of the Prevention Project: A Seminar Series Exploring the Evidence Base for P/CVE
18 May 2020, 14:00Prevention is a vital pillar of counterterrorism (CT) strategies across the globe. Yet despite nearly 20 years of preventative initiatives this issue continues to be highly politicised, misunderstood and contested. To help address this, RUSI has...
Mapping a Pandemic: Policing the UK during Covid- 19
14 May 2020, 14:00The coronavirus pandemic represents one of the the biggest challenges to UK policing since the Second World War. Some aspects of criminal behaviour are very likely to decrease during periods of social distancing, for example alcohol-related...
The Corona Lessons: Learning from the Fight Against Coronavirus
13 May 2020, 14:00Speaker: Uga Dumpis MD PhD Introductory remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Artis Pabriks PhD To date Latvia, a country of some two million inhabitants, has only had 858 coronavirus infections and 15 deaths. That puts the country in an elite group of...
The Southern Stratagem: North Korean Proliferation Financing in Southern and Eastern Africa
13 May 2020, 13:00North Korea adapts its proliferation financing activities to the particular opportunities available in each of the regions in which it operates. Sub-Saharan Africa has been no different.The Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies hosted an...
Terrorism and the Mass Media Launch Event
11 May 2020, 14:00Access paper here An independent piece of research commissioned by London Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations Neil Basu, this paper examines the role the media can play in amplifying the impact of terrorism. It...
Does the Current Strategy to Counter Terrorist Financing Work?
07 May 2020, 14:00Access the paper Since 9/11, targeting the finances of terrorist actors has been a central element of the global counterterrorism landscape. Indeed, the first public shot fired by George W. Bush in his ‘War on Terror’ was a financial measure in the...
Mapping a Pandemic: Britain and China: Unusual Business - The Future Bilateral Relationship
07 May 2020, 14:00“We ought to look at all sides of this and do it in a balanced way, but there is no doubt that we can’t have business as usual after this crisis”. This is how Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab characterised the challenge he believes Britain is facing...
Reflections on Victory in Europe 75 Years On
05 May 2020, 16:008 May 1945 – VE (Victory in Europe) Day – was one that remained in the memory of all those who witnessed it. It meant an end to nearly six years of a war that had cost the lives of millions; had destroyed homes, families and cities; and had brought...
Getting the Partnership Right
Iran in the South Caucasus: Adjustment and Evolution
Rose Roth, language and youth