- 21st November, Paris Agreement: A Global Solution Beyond US?
- 30th November, The Price of Knowledge
- 4th December, What Role Should the State Play in Integration?
Private Military Companies: Armies of the Future?
Join the Defence and Diplomacy Policy Centre for our upcoming panel discussion on Private Military Companies: Armies of the Future? As security is increasingly outsourced to private actors we ask ourselves how PMCs operate, what legal and ethical issues surround their use and whether PMCs will shape future conflicts. As part of our research into this field we have gathered several high-profile individuals who we believe are invaluable in understanding the issue at hand:
Major General Graham Binns CBE DSO MC – retired British Army officer and former CEO of Aegis Defence Services Ltd. Having served with the British Armed forces in Iraq Mr. Binns went on to lead a major Private Security Company which has been active in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Professor Gabor Rona – Member of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries. As an expert in international humanitarian law and international human rights law, Mr. Rona has undertaken substantial work with the UNHRC on monitoring and studying the use of PMCs and addressing legal questions pertaining to their use.
Professor Trevor Taylor – Professorial Research Fellow at RUSI. Mr. Taylor specialises in Defence Management and currently leads a research programme on Defence, Industries and Society parallel to writing about the defence sector.
Dr. Sean McFate – Author, Novelist, Fellow at the University of Oxford and expert on Foreign Policy. Mr. McFate has written extensively on the privatization of war (The Modern Mercenary, Oxford University Press 2014) and the inevitability of change in future international conflict.
Radicalisation and violent extremism in the digital era
Date: 14/11/2017
Time: 18:30 – 20:00
Location: Room G.79 Franklin-Wilkins Building, King’s College London
Join the European Affairs Policy Centre for our expert panel on radicalisation and countering violent extremism within and beyond the digital sphere. In light of the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Europe, the discussion will revolve around the ‘radicalisation process’ and how leading figures from the public-private sector and civil society are tackling the problem.
Speakers include:
Dr Laura Zahra McDonald – Director at ConnectFutures, an organisation providing expertise to clients with a focus on the connectivity between the local and transnational levels of extremism
Mr Abu Ahmed – Head of Counter-Terrorism Communications & Engagement at the Home Office (Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism)
Dr Salah al-Ansari – Senior Researcher (Theology and Outreach) at Quilliam International, the world’s first counter-extremism organisation