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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.
International Women’s Day: Marking the 20th anniversary of UNSCR 1325
06 March 2020, 15:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
UNSCR 1325 was a landmark resolution. It affirmed that peace and security efforts are more sustainable when women are equal partners in the...
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective
16 March 2020, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
After the events of World War Two, General Eisenhower commented that there had never before been a war where resistance forces were so...
Australia and the UK in the World’s Most Contested Region: A Conversation with Professor Rory Medcalf
18 March 2020, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
As the UK prepares its Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review and seeks to strengthen its global engagement, the Indo-...
RUSI Combat Air Conference 2020
19 March 2020, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
With the UK’s Future Combat Air Strategy set to feature heavily in the upcoming Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review, there are now major efforts underway in NATO to create the next...
Modern Deterrence Conference Spring 2020
13 May 2020, 8:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The RUSI Modern Deterrence Conference Spring 2020 will take place on the 13 May 2020. More details and speakers will be announced closer to date
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, including UK nuclear deterrence discourse,...
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 from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and...
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 remove wealth from the criminal economy serves to...
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 cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as...
Roundtable on HMG responses to illicit financial flows in South Sudan
30 May 2019, 11:00RUSI Whitehall
International actors are critical partners in ending the movement of illicit financial flows through and out of South Sudan. South Sudan is estimated to have lost $6.8 billion in illicit financial flows since 2012, due in large part to weak state...
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 warfare) targets civil society as much as armed forces...
Launch Event: Task Force on the Future of UK Sanctions Policy
28 May 2019, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
As 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 implement sanctions after Brexit, it is less clear how...
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 focussed on the challenges and opportunities that face contemporary UN peacekeeping as the Secretary General’s Action For Peacekeeping agenda is endorsed by a growing number of member states at the same time as...
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...
India and the US: Trump’s Trip at a Time of Tension
An Increasingly Volatile International Environment Opens New Fronts for European Navies
Greater Europe and the Future of Global Order