Saferworld

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Every month, Charlie Linney and Lewis Brooks speak to a diverse group of practitioners, experts, and commentators from around the world to discuss the impacts of security policy on contemporary conflict. Join us to talk about the long-term implications of securitised interventions and policies, both for democratic controls over the use of force in Europe, the US and elsewhere and for the communities most impacted in places like the Middle East, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, South America and South-East Asia.

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Building Partner Capacity in Africa 29.04.2019 26:55

Emily Knowles and Abigail Watson are joined by the Peace Research Institute Oslo's (PRIO) Nic Marsh and Marie Sandnes to talk security assistance and building partner capacity in Africa.  Music by Bensound. 

Roundtable: AI and the Future of Remote Warfare 28.03.2019 1:17:50

The roundtable talk AI and the Future of Remote Warfare 

Event Podcast: The Legality and Transparency of Remote Warfare 27.03.2019 38:35

The panel discuss the legality and transparency of remote warfare.  

Event Podcast: The Oversight and Accountability of Remote Warfare 27.03.2019 54:15

The speakers discuss the oversight and accountability of remote warfare.  

Event Podcast: Theorising Remote Warfare 27.03.2019 55:31

The speakers discuss the theoretical issues surrounding Remote Warfare.  

Event Podcast: Sir Hew Strachan Keynote Speech 27.03.2019 39:53

 Sir Hew Strachan gives the keynote speech for the event. 

Event Podcast: The Cost and Consequences of Remote Warfare 27.03.2019 1:00:21

The speakers discuss the cost and consequences of remote warfare.  

Event Podcast: The Geographies of Remote Warfare 27.03.2019 57:05

The speakers discuss the geographies of remote warfare.  

Event Podcast: Building Partner Capacity and Remote Warfare 27.03.2019 42:21

The speakers discuss building partner capacity in remote warfare. 

Learning Lessons from Partner Operations: A Conversation with Larry Lewis 21.03.2019 28:36

  The Remote Warfare Programme's Liam Walpole and Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen sit down with Dr. Larry Lewis to discuss working with strategic military partners and civilian casualties. Drawing upon his experience of working with the Obama Administration on partner assistance in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, Dr. Lewis highlights how this approach can mitigate civilian harm and the lessons tha...

The 2013 Syria Vote Revisited 21.03.2019 28:51

  With the surprise announcement of a potential US withdrawal from Syria just before Christmas, the international military presence in the country is back in the spotlight. This represents a good moment to revisit a piece written by the Remote Warfare Programme in the aftermath of 2018’s other big Syria news story, Theresa May’s decision to respond to the use of chemical weapons by the Assad...

The Modernising Defence Programme Review In Focus 21.03.2019 20:14

  In December 2018, the Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson, released the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) long-awaited Modernising Defence Programme (MDP) review. In just 28 pages, the document examines the evolving nature of the threats facing the UK since the publication of the 2015 SDSR and addresses budgetary problems in the MoD's equipment programmes.  While encoura...