Top of page Skip navigation
ISD Areas of Work


ISD Initiatives

Against Violent Extremism Network

Humanitas Professorships

www.counterextremism.org

  CEDAR

European Muslim Professionals' Network

European Muslim Women of Influence

International Prize for Arabic Fiction

International Arabic Fiction Prize


48 Charles Street,
London W1J 5EN
info@strategicdialogue.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7493 9333
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7493 4909

Club of Three: Special Session on Defence

After the Crisis: Convergence versus Divergence

25 - 26 March 2011
Versailles

This gathering of defence experts, industry chiefs, policy makers and political figures served once again as a forum for high-level discussions of issues facing Europe in the sphere of defence policy and national security.

Sessions explored how the financial crisis is affecting the shape of European defence today and its long-term trajectory; assessed the state of industrial and political cooperation with the United States; and discussed new challenges within the nexus of security and defence. Speakers included EADS CEO Louis Gallois, former French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, UK Security Minister Baroness Neville-Jones, and the Chairman of the French Economic Analysis Council  Christian de Boissieu.

Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
Journalist and blogger Sunny Hundal, delivering a presentation at ISD's Social Media and Intolerance workshop, April 2012
Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012.
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012
Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
Forthcoming events

Vice-Chancellor's Dinner for the Weidenfeld Scholarships

Oxford, 12 June 2012

Club of Three and China High-Level Forum

Beijing, 25 to 26 May 2012

CEDAR-EMWI Girls' Mentoring Day

London, 19 May 2012

Recent events

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chinese Studies

University of Cambridge, 9 to 17 May 2012

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Economic Thought

University of Oxford, 8 to 10 May 2012

Conference on Tackling Extremism: Deradicalisation and Disengagement

Copenhagen, 8 to 9 May 2012

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Art

University of Oxford, 7 to 10 May 2012

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries and Libraries

University of Oxford, 7 to 10 May 2012

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography

University of Oxford, 30 April to 3 May 2012

Weidenfeld Scholarships Selection 2012

Egrove Park, Oxford, 28 April 2012

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies

University of Oxford, 26 to 28 April 2012

11th Meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network (PPN)

The Hague, 19 to 20 April 2012


More recent events