Dialogue on the UK Government’s Strategic Defence Review

Friday 13 Sept 2024, 13:00 → 14:45 Europe/London

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Thomas Martin (Open University)

On 16 July, the UK’s new Prime Minister commissioned a Strategic Defence Review (SDR) with submissions invited until the end of September from different stakeholders, including academics and the general public. The review presents an opportunity to substantively engage with the UK's security and foreign policy agenda and offer new angles to feed into policy processes.

 

Our newly established Security Policy and Practice Working Group is therefore convening a dialogue event for academics, practitioners and other experts to exchange views on the issues that this review should take into account. No prior experience in submitting evidence is needed and the session will discuss different ways of successfully engaging in policy processes of this kind. The session will encourage constructive, multi-disciplinary dialogue across a wide spectrum of opinion and voices, including feminist, postcolonial and other historically marginalised perspectives in the security and defence area.

 

Chair: Dr. Thomas Martin, (SPP group co-convener / Open University) 

Speakers: 

Eleanor Fairhurst, Specialist, House of Commons Defence Select Committee team 

Richard Reeve, Coordinator, Rethinking Security 

Prof. Anna Stavrianakis, University of Sussex

 

Registration will close two hours before the event begins.