On Wednesday, 29 April, we simultaneously held two great events in London and Washington DC:
In London we had a broad and engaging discussion about the unfolding events in the Middle East, the declining role of the West and how various players should engage going forward. The panel of speakers included Metsa Rahimi, Regional head of Intelligence at Deutsche Bank, Joseph Walker-Cousins, former head of the British Embassy Office in Benghazi now with KBR, as well as Alia Brahimi, Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Go to our website for the DC and London UK Election Discussions: Key Takeaways and Media
With an outstanding panel in DC, we discussed the significance (or lack thereof) of the UK Election. Former EU Official Sir Michael Leigh chaired the discussion with Scheherazade Rehman from George Washington University, Peter Foster from The Daily Telegraph and Dan Roberts from The Guardian on the panel. Go to our website for the DC and London UK Election Discussions: Key Takeaways and Media.
Here are our upcoming events for May:
May 13: London event on the UK Election – What We’ve Learned with Frank Spring, US political strategist, independent consultant for innovation, politics and security issues and PS21 Global Fellow, Michael Peacock: Europe Middle East and Africa Politics and Economics Editor, Thomson Reuters and Georgina Stubbs: Journalist, The Sun
May 18: London discussion on Social Media and Politics, with Tim Hardy from Beyond Clicktivism, Sandy Schumann at Oxford University, and Jonn Elledge from New Statesman/Citimetric
Vassily Kashin, a PS21 global fellow and senior researcher at the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies gave us a perspective of What Russia really thinks on Ukraine
PS21 executive director Peter Apps published two pieces on the UK Election. You can find articles answering the questions What does this election tell us about modern Britain?on Reuters.com and What do other countries think about the general election? on the New Statesman.com
Jonn Elledge, Journalist for the New Statesman, Editor of City Metric and PS21 Global Fellow, wrote a unique and refreshing wish list of the 14 things I want to hear a candidate say before this campaign ends
Eric Mwiine-Magaju, SOAS University of London graduate, is interested in Islamic and African Constitutional laws and wrote a piece on Nigeria’s next challenge: its constitution
British-Nigerian writer Emmanuel Akintwu wrote about A Migrant’s Short Story
Omar Hamid, former Karachi police officer, IHS analyst and PS21 global fellow on crime and corruption in Karachi wrote about how In 2013 two factions of the Pakistani Taliban fought for control of Karachi’s water infrastructure
A comprehensive list of previous postings is listed below:
April 2015
28/04/2015 Dangerous Crossing – Peter Apps
24/04/2015 PS21 Update: Week Ending 24 April
24/04/2014 Crime and Counterterrorism in Karachi: DC Event Key Takeaways
23/04/2015 High Spending Russia Closes Naval Gap with West – Philip Thicknesse
21/04/2015 A hashtag’s unintended consequences in Nigeria- Emmanuel Akinwotu
20/04/2015 Cyber Insurance – An Emerging Market – Tom Allen
15/04/2015 DC event – A Conversation with Joseph Nye: Key Takeaways
13/04/2015 The rise of “National Innovation Foundations”- Frank Spring
10/04/2015 University attack stark lessons for Kenya- Edward Wanyonyi
09/04/2015 Organising in the 21st Century: Linda Tirado
05/04/2015 The Islamic State in Libya – Alia Brahimi
04/04/2015 DC Event: Crime and Counterterrorism in Karachi
04/04/2015 London Event: The UK Election – an outsider’s perspective
02/04/2015 The 21st Century Clash of Cultures- David Murrin
01/04/2015 Deepnet: is the “bad web” good or evil? Michael Gillespie
March 2015
30/03/2015 Turkey in the New Middle East – Enea Gjoza
28/03/2015 Burying England’s last post-apocalyptic warlord – Peter Apps
28/03/2015 Yemen heads down Syria’s path – Hayat Alvi
27/03/2015 How Boko Haram changed Nigeria – Emmanuel Akinwotu
26/03/2015 Assessing the New US National Security Strategy- Ali Wyne
25/03/2015 PS21 at Two (Months) – Peter Apps
23/03/2015 Breaking a decades-long trend, the world gets more violent
22/03/2015 The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Arab Spring – Lara Fatah
21/03/2015 Spike in Media Coverage of PS21 Study on Spike in Death Tolls
19/03/2015 Where the West went wrong in Libya – Joseph Walker-Cousins
17/03/2015 PS21 Announces 10 New Global Fellows
17/03/2015 Death Toll in 2014’s Bloodiest Wars Sharply Up on Previous Year
17/03/2015 Conversation with Hussain Haqqani, Pakistani Ambassador to US
16/03/2015 To Defeat ISIS, look to the Bolsheviks – Jack Goldstone
13/03/2015 Anonymous vs. ISIS: Ryan Hagemann
11/03/2015 The New ‘Long War’ with Russia – Philip Thicknesse
11/03/2015 Introducing PS21 World – Peter Apps
08/03/2015 The cultural outpouring fuelled by Syrian war- Miriam Cooke
07/03/2015 DC Event Arab Spring@4: What Next? Key Takeaways/ Media
06/03/2015 For young Syrians, war brings unexpected freedom – Rasha Elass
04/03/2015 London Discussion on Mideast Social Media: Key takeaways
03/03/2015 After Arab Spring, Challenges for Islamic NGOs – Amjad Saleem
01/03/2015 London Discussion: South Asia Geopolitics Afpak to Sri Lanka
01/03/2015 PS21 a Month In: Update from Executive Director Peter Apps
February 2015
27/02/2015 Iraq: The Unexpected Victim of the Arab Spring – John Drake
26/02/2015 The Fight for Sexual Rights in Egypt – Dalia Abd El Hameed
25/05/2015 Social Media in the Era of ISIS – Sultan al-Qassemi
24/02/2015 The Arab Spring and the Limits of American Power – Ari Ratner
24/02/2015 The Arab Spring@4: Introducing PS21 MIDEAST
22/02/2015 London Discussion on Greece, Eurozone: Key Takeaways
12/02/2015 DC Revolutions Event: Key Takeaways/ Video
12/02/2015 PS21 Global Fellow Battles Ebola in Sierra Leone
01/02/2015 DC Superpower Discussion: Key Takeaways/ Video
January 2015
30/01/2015 London Cyber Discussion: Key Takeaways
27/01/2015 PS21 Announces First 50 Global Fellows, International Advisors
26/01/2015 Peter Apps Joins PS21 as Executive Director
22/01/2015 Introducing PS21
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