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Freedom & Transformation Festival, Albania 2024
Fri, 20 Sept | Tirana & Durrës
A cultural festival in Tirana & Durrës, 20 - 22 September, co-curated with Lea Ypi.

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Join us for an exciting weekend with a series of tours, excursions, dinners, discussions and activities to deepen your understanding of Albania, its culture, history and people.

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Peter Frankopan, Christina Lamb, Misha Glenny, Sally Hayden, Sir Noel Malcolm...

Package ticket for the Freedom & Transformation festival in Albania during British
Welcome dinner on Friday September 20th
Lunches on both days September 21st and 22nd
Morning coffee on September 22nd
All tours & transportation as listed in the Supplementary Programme for Overseas Visitors
Any entrance fees as part of the tours
All talks & events in the official Freedom & Transformation programme

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Thu, 05 Sept |
Anne Applebaum in conversation with David Aaronovitch.

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The celebrated historian and journalist, Anne Applebaum, joins David Aaronovitch, journalist, broadcaster, and author, to discuss the networks undermining global democracy—and how we can combat them.
Anne Applebaum has been monitoring the erosion of democratic systems for decades. Currently, a new threat has emerged: autocracies are collaborating to maintain power. These regimes are not led by a single dictator but are supported by complex networks involving kleptocratic financial systems, security services, and technological experts specialising in surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation. Countries with such centralised autocracies include Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Angola, Myanmar, Cuba, Syria, Zimbabwe, and many others.

Screening Premiere: Hollywoodgate
Mon, 12 Aug | Curzon Soho
Q&A with director Ibrahim Nash'at

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When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.

Directed By : IBRAHIM NASH'AT
Runtime: 1H 32M
Certificate: 12A

Moderators make or break an event! These are some of the best in the world! 👌👌👌

Tue, 09 Jul | The Conduit
Politics on the Edge
Rory Stewart in conversation with Clarissa Ward.

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Join Rory Stewart, once a political outsider who made a bid for Prime Minister before parting ways with the Conservative Party, now a best-selling author and host of the influential podcast "The Rest is Politics".

He will be in conversation with Clarissa Ward, CNN's Chief International Correspondent. A multi-award-winning journalist, bringing decades of experience reporting from conflict zones worldwide, from Syria, Gaza to Ukraine.

Tonight we are at the Ukrainian Cathedral in Mayfair with Jen Stout and Lindsey Hilsum
Come along!

Jun 27 | 21-22 Binney Street

The Human Cost of Russia's War | On Front Line Jen Stout in conversation with Lindsey Hilsum.

One of the best books on British Politics by Will Hutton. Join Will live on stage, with Isabel Hilton and Andrew Hindmoor.

Jun 20 |

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The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Thu 5 Sep 2024 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM BST, The Conduit
One of the world’s foremost historians and journalists, Anne Applebaum, joins David Aaronovitch, journalist, broadcaster, and author, to discuss the networks undermining global democracy—and how we can combat them.

Anne Applebaum has been monitoring the erosion of democratic systems for decades. Currently, a new threat has emerged: autocracies are collaborating to maintain power. These regimes are not led by a single dictator but are supported by complex networks involving kleptocratic financial systems, security services, and technological experts specializing in surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation. Countries with such centralized autocracies include Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Angola, Myanmar, Cuba, Syria, Zimbabwe, and many others.

Anne Applebaum will explain how rogue states endure sanctions, circulate their wealth, and redefine the post-war ‘rules-based order’, and how the democratic world has unintentionally supported this new reality, risking the loss of control over our economic futures and democratic systems.

Join us in-person or online to understand the urgent, radical changes necessary to preserve democracy, and why immediate action is crucial.

Live event: Global Drugs Crisis
Thu 6 Jun 2024 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM BST


An exclusive panel discussion looking at the changing global drug trade. From the enigmatic Wa State in Myanmar to the bustling drug corridors of Mexico and the clandestine corners of the dark web. The rapid rise of synthetic opioids and their profound impact.

Our speakers, will discuss how global and regional conflicts shape the drug trade and vice versa.

Patrick Winn, Emma Beals, Max Daly

Moderated by Chris Morris.

How to Remake Britain
Thu 20 Jun 2024 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM BST


Join Will Hutton, a best-selling author, political economist and commentator, for this special event on the UK’s general election.

After 14 years of government by the Conservative Party, polls, bookmakers and most Westminster insiders believe Labour is on course for a seismic election victory when the country goes to the polls on 4 July.

Every thinking person knows that a great change is needed in our country, we look at how to remake Britain.

Ukraine War: Human Cost
27 June 2024, 6pm
Ukrainian Cathedral, 21 - 22 Binney St.

Stories from the night trains, birthday parties, military hospitals and bunkers: stories from the ground, Jen Stout always seeking to understand the bigger picture, the big questions of identity, history, hopes and fears in this war in Europe.

Moderated by Lindsey Hilsum.

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Global Drugs Crisis
Thu 6 Jun 2024 6PM The Conduit London

Join us for an exclusive panel discussion on the changing global drug trade. From the enigmatic Wa State in Myanmar to the bustling drug corridors of Mexico and the clandestine corners of the dark web. The rapid rise of synthetic opioids and their profound impact.
With Patrick Winn, Emma Beals, Max Daly
Moderated by Chris Morris.

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I am sooo looking forward to this evening's talk with the wonderful Andrew North & Ramita Navai on Afghanistan.
They both share deep empathy and understanding for the country and its people.

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April 25, 6pm | Ukrainian Cathedral

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Buy tickets – 20 Years in Afghanistan – Ukrainian Cathedral Twenty years in Afghanistan. Trapped in an Afghan jail in early 2022, veteran journalist Andrew North had several questions. Wh...

Live Event: 20 Years in Afghanistan
with Andrew North in conversation with Lindsey Hilsum Channel 4

April 25 | Mayfair, London

Trapped in an Afghan jail in early 2022, veteran journalist Andrew North had several questions.
Why had he been taken? Would he be released unharmed? And how had the West spent twenty years in Afghanistan replacing the Taliban ... with the Taliban?

In conversation with Lindsey Hilsum Channel 4 News’s International Editor.

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So happy ‘The incarcerations’ by Alpa Shah, arrived ready for the weekend. Join us live on March 20th. A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press’

The world’s largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.

War in Gaza
March 30 |
In-person & Online

Senior correspondents discuss the latest developments, aid relief, negotiations, and reporting or lack of it.

Since the October 7 attacks on Israel, much of Gaza is in ruins, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and 70,000 injured.
Except for brief tours with a limited number of reporters, Israel has blocked access to journalists. At least 100 journalists have been killed so far.

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Live Event:
March 20 |

Trump Biden rematch. Battle for Istanbul. India’s democratic status. And more https://events.onfrontline.com/events/onfrontline/1163921

Live Event:
Mar 20, 6PM |

In our World Briefing series, we’re closely monitoring significant global elections, some of which, like the upcoming presidential poll in Russia, are very predictable but others could have a significant impact regionally and globally.

In the UK, polls indicate a potential historic collapse of the Conservative vote, though surprises in timing and outcome are always possible.

Our focus for now shifts to the highly consequential US presidential election, India and Turkey.

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‘I spent 10 years as a conflict negotiator. This is where Israel-Hamas talks have gone wrong’, Pierre Hazan
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/15/pierre-hazan-israel-gaza-negotiator-ceasefire-interview/

Live In-person & Online
24 Jan | The Conduit London
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‘I spent 10 years as a conflict negotiator. This is where Israel-Hamas talks have gone wrong’ War mediator Pierre Hazan has worked with Russia, Ukraine and across the Middle East, and has his own take on how to deescalate tensions

Four months into the Israel Gaza war we bring together two of the most experienced conflict mediators to look at the back-channel mediation and the challenges faced in navigating the delicate balance between peace and justice.
Pierre Hazan, senior advisor with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.
Claire Hajaj Deputy CEO at Inter Mediate.
Moderator Chris Morris CEO Full Fact

Live In-person & Online
24 Jan | The Conduit London

Negotiating with the Devil Inside the World of Armed Conflict Mediation and the moral dilemmas confronting negotiators striving to balance peace and justice.

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🌐n Front Line Event: This is Europe
25 Jul | The Conduit London

With Ben Judah, Katy Fallon & Rav Muthiah

UK's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda ruled unlawful.
How many people are trying to reach Europe? Where are they coming from, and why? What more should be done to try to ensure their safety, and how can a fairer and more humane system of asylum and migration be established?
- https://mailchi.mp/393f2c9919ec/europe_migration_w26
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🔴Event: Pakistan’s chaotic political crisis is intensifying, as the army tries to destroy the opposition leader Imran Khan and his party, the PTI.
With Christina Lamb Sec Kermani Saima Mohsin Chris Morris

19 June | The Conduit & Livestream

Pakistan Politics Correspondents Christina Lamb, Saima Mohsin, Secunder Kermani discuss Pakistan politics.