Events
Diversity and Inclusion in UK Policing
RUSI invites you to a conversation with Commander Dr Alison Heydari, who will offer her personal thoughts on diversity and inclusion in UK policing, and why it is so important for police forces to reflect the communities they serve. It is 22 years since Sir William Macpherson published his ground-breaking…
Role of Private Sector Actors in Asset Recovery
The principle that ‘crime shouldn’t pay’ is enshrined in a range of global anti-financial crime standards and conventions and has been applied in national laws for decades. Despite this, global best estimates note that only around 2% of criminal proceeds are frozen, with only 1% subsequently confiscated. While ideally the…
Curbing Enablers: A Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance
The professional services offered by the US and UK remain an Achilles’ heel in the fight against illicit finance. This discussion will consider how London and Washington can make a step-change in combatting these facilitators. Criminals, malign actors and kleptocrats easily find homes in the UK and US for their…
The FATF Standards and Unintended Consequences: Part 3: Looking to the Future
RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies invites you to our series ‘FATF: Past, Present and Future in the Unintended Consequences Debate’ How far has the standard setter come and where is it heading? As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) considers ways to mitigate the unintended consequences of…
WWF and IUCN Event: Understanding the gendered dynamics and gender-based violence in the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT)
How do gendered dynamics and gender-based violence (GBV) shape and impact illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and strategies and actions to tackle it? Join IUCN and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in a discussion about these issues through a presentation and discussion on WWF’s latest publication Gender and Illegal Wildlife Trade:…
190th RUSI Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the next RUSI Annual General Meeting will take place on 15 July 2021 at 15:00 BST, online via Zoom. Open to all RUSI Members. Please note, there will be limited places available for in-person attendance to ensure compliance with the UK Government’s Covid-19 guidelines on…
The FATF Standards and Unintended Consequences: Part 2: Evaluating the Present
RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies invites you to our series ‘FATF: Past, Present and Future in the Unintended Consequences Debate’ How far has the standard setter come and where is it heading? As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) considers ways to mitigate the unintended consequences of…
The FATF Standards and Unintended Consequences – Part 1: Assessing the Past
RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies invites you to their event series ‘FATF: Past, Present and Future in the Unintended Consequences Debate’. As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) considers ways to mitigate the unintended consequences of its financial crime standards, this three-part webinar series will assess the…
Disrupting the Ransomware Ecosystem
Recent attacks on the US’s Colonial Pipeline and Ireland’s public healthcare system have emphasised the scale and severity of the threat posed by ransomware. What policy interventions can help disrupt the ransomware ecosystem? Ransomware attacks hold businesses and public services hostage and yield millions for the criminal groups behind them,…
Prisons and Terrorism – A lecture by Professor Seán McConville
A presentation by Professor Seán McConville on the imprisonment of terrorists, focusing on the use of prisons by paramilitary organisations to further their objectives. Erupting in 1969, the Northern Ireland “troubles” continued with terrible intensity until 1998. The most enduring civil conflict in Western Europe since the Second World War…