Events
LSE CCRG events aim to provide the public, policymakers, and professionals with diplomatic insight. Our events include public lectures, debates, policy workshops, and international conferences. All forthcoming and past events are listed below.
2025 Events
Debating the Role of Nuclear Weapons - LSE | Monday 17 November 2025 6pm - 7.30pm
Join us for a debate on the future of European security and the launch of a new policy paper from the Conflict and Civicness Research Group. This event marks a culmination of a two-year project exploring how societies can ensure safety and stability in an age of global polarisation and disorder and whether nuclear deterrence remains the best path forward.
Peace and Security in Somalia and Colombia - Fragmented environments, transcalar contexts: Webinar Series
This public webinar series draws on research from Galkayo and Kismayo in Somalia and Tumaco and Chocó in Colombia’s Pacific region across the CCRG. It explores how peace and security processes unfold in fragmented, multilayered, and transcalar environments, where cycles of violence are shaped by limited or uneven state presence, chronic underdevelopment, and contested forms of authority.
Localised peace and security arrangements are becoming central to efforts by communities and state actors to address insecurity and navigate complex governance landscapes. The series examines how these processes operate within broader political economies and connect across local, national, and international levels, highlighting the potential of transcalar peace and security processes to support more inclusive and sustainable outcomes.
Somalia, Mapping the Fragments: Justice & Security in Kismayo and Galkayo
Thursday 19th June 14:00
A Peace Agreement still holding - Galkayo, Somalia
Wednesday 2nd July 14:00
Colombia and Somalia: Comparative Insights on Multilayered Peace Processes
Wednesday 9th July 14:00
Trump 2.0 and the age of Polycrisis: Webinar Series
This public webinar series will draw together expertise from the LSE CCRG and our broader research networks and community to provide a series of 60 minute briefings on the impacts of Trump’s second term for some of the issues and contexts that we research. Webinars will run every Wednesday from January to February. You can learn more and register for the webinars below.
'Great power competition' : change and continuity in US foreign policy under Trump
Wednesday 8th January 15:00 - 16:00
Implications of Trumps second term for the Middle East
Wednesday 15th January 15:00 - 16:00
How should Europe respond to Trump?
Wednesday 22nd January 15:00 - 16:00
Democratic security in the 'frontline states' of Georgia and Moldova
Wednesday 29th January 15:00 - 16:00
Public Lectures
Climate Emergency and the Future of Civic Space
Thursday 23rd January 18:30 - 20:00
Is there a way out of the Middle East crisis? Pathways for peace & justice amid regional fragmentation, violent conflict & authoritarianism
Monday 10th February 18:15 - 20:00
Past Events
Book Launch
Punishing Putin: Inside the Glocal Economic War to bring down Russia
Thursday 7th November 18:00 - 20:00
At this special book launch event, Baker returns to her alma mater to discuss the ongoing war in the context of her heavily researched book, which draws on sources ranging from Western policy-makers to Russian oligarchs. Baker will be joined by a panel of experts all seeking to investigate the ramifications of this ‘financial war' in light of her research.
Public Lecture
Imperialism and Authoritarianism Today
Thursday 24th October 18:00 - 19:30
To mark the publication of the latest issue of
Red Pepper
magazine and its special section on ‘Imperialism today’, this panel discussion will offer reflections on the nature of contemporary imperialism and authoritarianism, how it should be critiqued and the challenges this poses to the development of progressive strategies based on the principles of fundamental rights for all.
Co-organised with LSE Middle East Centre
13 Years After the Arab Spring: What are the Chances for Legitimate Constitutions in the Arab World?
Monday 25th March 18:00 - 19:30
This event will launch the special issue
‘Arab Constitutional Responses to the Revolutions and Transformations in the Region’
published in the Journal of Constitutional Law in the Middle East and North Africa. It is a result of a two year collaboration between the
supported, LSE based,
Civicness in the Arab World research project
and
the Arab Association of Constitutional Law
.
Ukraine in a Global Context - Webinar Series
'Dependent State Formation' in post war Ukraine
Monday 20th May
Perspectives on NATO's Frontline States
Monday 22nd April
Conference: Solidarity with Ukraine – Building a New Internationalism
Saturday 11th March 10.00am – 6:30pm
A year afrer the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine has moved into the centre of not only European but global politics. As a result of their resistance, Ukrainians have an opportunity – in dialogue with global civil society movements – to ‘make another world possible’. By bringing Ukrainian activists and academics into dialogue with other global civil society movements and creating a space for discussion and action, the Solidarity with Ukraine conference seeks to make a small contribution to taking this forward.
Russian War on Ukraine: the death of a soldier told by his sister
Thursday 27 April 2023 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Olesya Khromeychuk's book, The Death of a Soldier told by his sister, combines memoir and essay, in a poignant account of the costs of the human costs of war, empire and authoritarianism. The book provides a vivid answer as to why, facing a full-scale military onslaught from Russia in February 2022, the people of Ukraine chose to resist. In this public lecture, Olesya will discuss the book in light of the events of this year. Her lecture will be followed by a discussion with Luke Cooper and Tim Judah.
Book Launch: Tainted Democracy - Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary by Zsuzsanna Szelényi
Tuesday 31 January 2023 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Zsuzsanna Szelényi joined us for a book launch of her book Tainted Democracy, offering an insider’s account of Fidesz’s evolution since its creation. Underpinned by Szelényi’s own experiences at the heart of Hungarian politics, Zsuzsanna offered accessible, nuanced insights into the global rise of populist autocracy—and how it can be challenged.
Tuesday 21 June 2022
After over a decade of war, crisis and authoritarianism, Syria continues to have one of the world’s largest refugee populations. With little prospect in sight for a return to stable conditions inside the country, its refugee populations face a range of on-going hardships and challenges.
This one-day conference considered the lessons, legacies and current trajectories facing Syrian refugees, and the links (in terms of geopolitical alignments, civil society activity and migration governance) to the Russian war on Ukraine.