Rethinking Security

🚨New on the Blog: @davidmanus from @CPS_Coventry talks about the value and importance of UN peacekeeping, an area with a bold vision but a chequered record of achieving human and sustainable security. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/01/the…

🚨New on the Blog: As part of our series ‘Stories of People- and Planet-centred Cooperation’, Tim Street tells the story of @PugwashConfs' successful work influencing arms control and reducing risks from nuclear weapons. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/22/pug…

Fantastic discussion of the UK National Security Strategy from a brilliant cast of academics and practitioners in today's meeting. Resharing @RJ_Reeve's take on the NSS, as mentioned in the session: rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/09/don…

🚨New Blog article: 'Human Security Must Remain on the NATO Agenda' NATO endorsed a Human Security approach in 2022 but this year has gone silent on it. @DrAlexGilder of @UniRDG_Law & @RUSI_org makes the case for Human Security staying on NATO’s agenda. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/15/hum…

The UK - self proclaimed leaders on international law - operate in a bad half way house where ministers tell parliament only the international courts can determine if a genocide is happening - knowing those courts will come to a view many years after the event. This initiative…

Lambeth Palace calls for a Strategic Peacebuilding Review to make UK peacebuilding ten times as impactful, in response to the militarisation agenda of the recent SDR and National Security Strategy, as CoE pushes for greater dialogue and reconciliation. churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

🚨Calling all scholars interested in the Nat'l Security Strategy.🇬🇧🕊️🪖 Thu 17/07, 11.30 - BISA Security Policy & Practice event with an incredible line-up: *Will Jessett, ex-MoD *@ProfPRogers *@cheng_christine *@josephdevanny *@LewiBrooks *@cpduncanson indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/563/

🚨New Event - next Weds 16 July, 6-7.30pm We are delighted to be partnering again with our friends at @HopeFTFuture to support free training on political engagement on climate and conflict. Sign up for free at: hftf.org.uk/event/climat...

Like the SDR before it, the UK's new National Security Strategy is silent on women, peace & security (WPS) and human security. With ministers arguing for the WPS agenda to be more militarised, Eva Tabbasam of @GAPS_Network argues for an urgent rethink. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/06/12/era…

🚨New article: The UK’s latest National Security Strategy heralds a radical redistribution from social spending to defence. @RJ_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...

👉NEW - UK media are covering up British spy flights for Israel by @lazebnic Prof Des Freedman Britain’s obedient defence correspondents are refusing to report a story of clear public interest in the middle of a genocide. Published w/ @ScotNational declassifieduk.org/uk-media-are-c…

Join our free workshop 'Climate Crossroads: Environmentalism & Peace' in collaboration with @RethinkingSecu1, to empower you to use our democratic system to help bring about a just and sustainable peace for all. 🕊️☮️ Sign up: hftf.org.uk/event/climate-…

Professor Bleiker's keynote speech at BISA in Belfast last month really got to the need to centre people's feelings and emotions at the centre of international politics and policy, as many of our methodologies have done, so this promises to be an excellent listen.

Good piece from @LewiBrooks of @Saferworld on what the National Security Strategy could have been. "The UK’s efforts on gender-responsive conflict prevention & resolution are left deprioritised & incoherent at a time when they are needed more than ever" saferworld-global.org/resources/news…

🚨New Event - 16 July, 6pm We are delighted to announce another collaboration with our friends at @HopeFTFuture supporting political engagement on climate and conflict. Sign up for free at: hftf.org.uk/event/climate-…