- 25 Aug., Stockholm
SIPRI Director Ian Anthony met with a visiting delegation from the Netherlands at the Swedish Parliament as part of the Programme for the visit by the President of the Senate, H. E. Ankie Broekers-Knol, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, H. E. Anouchka van Miltenburg, of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. - 24 Aug., online
SIPRI Senior Researcher Damir Esenaliev co-authored an article on ethnicity and the distribution of welfare in in the Journal of Comparative Economics. - 24–29 Aug., Toulouse, France
SIPRI Senior Researcher Anastasia Aladysheva participated in the Annual European Economic Association meeting, presenting a research paper on an impact evaluation of a community-driven development intervention in Burkina Faso (conducted jointly with the World Bank). She also participated in the Women in Economics session, in which well-known female economists provided tips for women working in male-dominant academic fields. - 23–28 Aug., Alpbach, Austria
Tariq Rauf, Director of SIPRI's Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme, chaired a session on nuclear futures and non-proliferation at the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium Workshop on Nuclear Energy Futures. - 21 Aug., Odessa, Ukraine
SIPRI Researcher Lina Grip gave a lecture on the emergence of a common European Union strategy on weapons of mass destruction at the Odessa Summer School on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security. The summer school was organized by Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University (ONU), the Global Information and Research Center at ONU and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority. - 11–14 Aug., Istanbul, Turkey
SIPRI Arms Transfers, Arms Production and Military Expenditure Programme Director Aude Fleurant attended the major International Peace Research Association (IPRA) bi-annual conference, giving two presentations on current trends in military expenditure and arms production transformation. - 4 Aug., Stockholm
A post entitled 'When money isn’t enough to buy peace' by SIPRI Researcher Neil Ferguson appeared on Economists on Conflict, a group blog co-hosted by SIPRI and Economists for Peace and Security. - 6–11 July, Mexico City
Tariq Rauf gave a number of presentations on non-proliferation issues at a Summer School for Latin American Diplomats organized by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Diplomatic Academy. - 2 July, Visby, Sweden
SIPRI Senior Researcher Pieter Wezeman spoke at the security policy venue of the annual Almedalen week, discussing the impact of the Arms Trade Treaty during a seminar organized by Amnesty International. - 1–2 July, Yerevan, Armenia
SIPRI Senior Researcher Jaïr van der Lijn spoke about SIPRI's New Geopolitics of Peace Operations Initiative at the International Strategic Policy Forum on the integration of national and regional peacekeeping capacities within the global system of peace operations. - 28 June–5 July, Monterey, California
Tariq Rauf gave a number of presentations on non-proliferation issues at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ Summer School.
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