Post Conflict People Summer Party
8th July 2009, St Stephens Club, London
The first Annual Summer Party will take place on the 8th July 2009. As places are limited, please complete and return your booking form as soon as possible
We are delighted to have obtained sponsorship for the Summer Party and therefore, there will be no charge to attend this event
Our sponsors for this event are Portland PR and GRM International
Strategic Communications in Countries Emerging from Violent Conflict
24-25 June 2009 at the Cumberland Hotel, London
Albany Associates Ltd, in conjunction with Post Conflict People and supported by Portland PR would like to invite you to an International conference on ‘Strategic Communications in Countries Emerging from Violent Conflict’ 24-25 June 2009 at the Cumberland Hotel, London. This important two-day event for policy-makers, communications practitioners, academics and media will establish how strategic communications can be incorporated into policy at an early stage and how to win the critical battle for 'hearts and minds'. Panel discussions to include:
- Strategic Communications – what has it got to do with stabilisation in countries emerging from conflict and why don’t we do it well?
- Mutuality; ownership and participation.
- Strategic Communications and New Media.
- Media Development and Regulatory Frameworks.
- Information Ecologies, Grassroots Communications and Research.
- A ‘view from the field’, a practitioner’s perspective, contributions from the UNAMA, AMISOM, UNRWA, MOD and an NGO.
Bringing together experts from a range of backgrounds, this will be a platform to share experience and knowledge, to formalise thinking and to consider models for implementation. Together with Keynote addresses from Alastair Campbell, a writer, communicator and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Spokesman and Press Secretary and Director of Communications and Strategy and Jamie Shea, the current Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General responsible for advising and assisting the Secretary General, senior NATO management, and the North Atlantic Council in addressing strategic issues facing the Alliance, Albany are expecting delegates from the UK and US Governments, the EU, NATO, the United Nations and other International organisations, NGO's, Academics, Media, Independent Communications Experts, Defence Specialists and the Private Sector.
Cost per person (inc VAT): £349 (Govt, NGO, Academia, and Independent Practitioners), £599 (Corporate and Private Sector).
To register your interest at no obligation, please click on the following link Albany Associates and we’ll contact you in due course with a conference application form and further information on the conference programme. Alternatively, book on-line at www.albanyassociates.com
Quarterly Networking Dinner
Wednesday, 25th March 2009, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ
Guest Speaker: Nik Gowing, BBC World News.
We are delighted to confirm that Nik Gowing, Main Presenter of BBC World News, will be our guest speaker. Nik will give an illustrated preview of his new research on how the growing proliferation of media sources in a major crisis creates a new vulnerability of power for governments, civil servants, the military and corporate executives.
If you are interested in attending please contact us as soon as possible as spaces are filling up. The dinner will take place at the Frontline Club in London (near Paddington Station) at 7.15pm.
To book your place please email enquiries@postconflictpeople.org for a booking form. An invoice for £55.00 will be forwarded to you by return and payment by cheque is required immediately in order to secure your place.
Nik Gowing is a main presenter for the BBC's international television news channel BBC World News, which currently has a distribution of 285million and a weekly audience of 76 million. He presents the daily news analysis programme World News Today with Nik Gowing and moderates the channel's World Debates. He is also a regular presenter of BBC's Dateline London.
As a principal programme anchor Nik often leads presentation of continuous 24-hour/7-day week coverage of major crises. This has included 9-11, the death of Princess Diana, the Asian Tsunami, the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo and many other major international events. He led BBC location coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks last November.
Nik has been a fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government, and served for six years as a member of the council of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House). He is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Reuter Institute of the Department of Politics at Oxford University, and is also a member of the executive council of the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) and the councils of the Ditchley Foundation and the Overseas Development Institute.
Anyone working in difficult or dangerous environments or involved in stabilisation operations will acknowledge the crucial importance of an effective communications strategy. We would particularly encourage attendance from anyone who has witnessed the issues in the field; this will be an excellent opportunity to exchange insights on future strategy.
Roundtable: Reconstructing Zimbabwe
Post Conflict People is organising a roundtable workshop on the morning of 25th March, 2009, to coincide with the first quarterly networking dinner.
The workshop will address challenges and practical ideas for reconstruction in Zimbabwe.
There will be a £30.00 charge to cover the costs of running the workshop, and we would welcome anyone interested to contact us about attending as soon as possible, as places are limited.
To book a place on the workshop or networking dinner, and for more information, please contact enquiries@postconflictpeople.org.
