🔊NEW article from the SPP Working Group! ✍️ 'Does the new Govt’s Strategic Defence Review offer a window for rethinking UK defence policy?' Larry Attree, Thomas Martin & Elisabeth Schweiger discuss their most recent #online event Read here👉bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Rethinking Security

Have you listened to the final episode of our podcast series? Hear some suggestions for the new government and what they should prioritise moving forward with Natalie Samarasinghe, Richard Reeve and Larry Attree Find here - rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/podcast/

#DidYouMiss the latest article from our SPP Working Group! ✍️ 'Does the new Govt’s Strategic Defence Review offer a window for rethinking UK defence policy?' Larry Attree, Thomas Martin & Elisabeth Schweiger discuss their most recent #online event Read more👉bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

"We envision a future that’s rooted in justice and peace… we are united in grief but also in hope.” Activists May Pundak of @2States1Homelan and Rana Salman of Combatants for Peace reflect on this painful year and discuss their enduring dream for peace. Two extraordinary women waging peace

I thought I'd be writing a big analytical piece on the anniversary of October 7. Where we've been, where we're going. What I got wrong, who got what right. And maybe I'll write some of this yet. But in truth, it doesn't feel like the day for it. Not only because..

REGISTER NOW for Tues 22 Oct BISA - British International Studies Association event on linking security scholars, practitioners & policymakers W top speakers: New Labour MP & Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) founder Jessica Toale MP Wilton Park chief Tom Cargill Serious Organised Crime & Anti-Corruption Evidence Professor @hamarquette 👇🏻

🚨LAST CHANCE! Join the Security Policy and Practice working group for a NEW online event - 'Strengthening links between academia, policy and practice' tomorrow (2pm) With Jessica Toale MP, Tom Cargill & @hamarquette! Register: bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Larry Attree Elisabeth Schweiger

Last chance to sign up for the world's leading course on reintegration of former combatants and recovery of conflict affected communities. Barcelona, 6-13 Dec 2024. Hope to see you there! bcnpeacecenter.org/events/special…

🚨New Blog: 📑'Introducing the National Security & Defence Documents Dataset 1987-2024'📃 @AndrewWNeal explains how the new online collection reveals trends in public security discourse & threat perceptions, and how the dataset can be used by scholars. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2024/11/14/nat…

📢The #BISA2025 programme has been released & registration is open!! All submissions should have received an email notifying you about your status on the programme & details of registration and accommodation. Any queries email [email protected] Nick Caddick Juliet Dryden / BISA

🚨New Blog Post: As Western security alliances fragment, Richard Reeve charts the implications for the UK’s most fundamental strategic assumptions and makes the case for ‘thinking beyond the unthinkable’ in the govt’s next National Security Strategy. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/03/06/b...

With BISA - British International Studies Association & the Centre for Grand Strategy (now Centre for Statecraft & National Security), we convened a roundtable of over 30 scholars, practitioners & policy-makers to discuss challenges & opportunities for UK peace & security policy as the gov't drafts a new National Security Strategy. Summary here: rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

🌟After the ‘Effective peace and security approaches for the UK in a volatile world’ workshop on 1 May at King's College London the BISA Security Policy and Practice WG outcomes report is out NOW🌟 full report 👉bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Larry Attree Elisabeth Schweiger Centre for Statecraft & National Security Richard Reeve

🚨New Blog article: For years, violent conflicts, related deaths and forces displacements have been spiralling. Why is this happening? And could a ‘peace lens’ help the UK respond more effectively in its forthcoming National Security Strategy? rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/06/03/a...

BISA - British International Studies Association Centre for Statecraft & National Security A ‘Peace Lens’ for the New UK National Security Strategy rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/06/03/a-p…

We are delighted to see a much smarter version of our recent article by Larry Attree, @h1lllz, Thomas Martin & Richard Reeve on how to make the next NSS more pro-peace published by our friends at Thinking & Working Politically. Thanks to Alina Rocha Menocal! twpcommunity.org/wp-content/upl…

Security Policy and Practice WG event 🎉 🚨'Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy'🚨 Offering an opportunity to discuss the analysis and policy directions set out in the National Security Strategy 🌎 Sign up now 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Larry Attree Elisabeth Schweiger

🚨New article: The UK’s latest National Security Strategy heralds a radical redistribution from social spending to defence. Richard Reeve argues that it also represents a radical abandonment of an 80-year project to learn the catastrophic lessons of WW2. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/09/d...

Event this week! 🎉 17 July Security Policy and Practice WG - 'Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy'🚨 Discussing the analysis and policy directions set out in the National Security Strategy 🌎 Sign up now 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Larry Attree Elisabeth Schweiger

⭐️Watch the recording of the recent event from our Security Policy and Practice Working Group "Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy" ! bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Elisabeth Schweiger Larry Attree