This week, we return to talk to our American friends but this time to learn about the mechanics of negotiation. Joining BIGA in this episode is Elizabeth Gamarra PhD and Hekmat Aboukhater. Both were previously Y20 delegates in India and Brazil respectively but both signed onto being Y20 Chairs this year under the Fragility, Conflict …
Welcome to the second installment of our series on the Youth G20! In this episode, we speak to the Fragility, Conflict and Violence delegate from our host country, the United States of America. Courtney Blankenship has a background in both law and security having studied Arabic in Morocco with the Peace Corps, Russian in Moscow …
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Welcome to the first episode on BIGA’s exclusive series on the Youth G20! Each year, the country that hosts the G20 is also expected to host different engagement groups such as the Women20, Business20, ThinkTank20, and others. BIGA’s founder, Alastair Nicol, was selected as one of the UK Youth Delegates to the G20 and in …
Welcome to the final episode in our series on Resilience! Having looked at what Resilience means; how it applies to both the state, society, and the private sector; and focusing on what Finland does so well, this last episode is a conversation about the UK and resilience. Joining us to explore this topic is Ed …
As we reach our penultimate episode for the series, we turn to a practitioner whose work before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has persevered in promoting culture as a form of national resilience. Agatha Gorski is the co-founder of the Shadows Project, a Kyiv-based NGO that protects and decolonises Ukrainian culture. Our conversation …
Throughout our conversations on Resilience, there is one country that is regularly touted as being the model for whole-of-society resilience and ‘Total Defence’: Finland. In this episode, we talk to Tom Woolmore, a Research Assistant for the Regional Resilience Project for the Centre for Statecraft and National Security and a Master’s graduate from King’s College …
Welcome back to the second week in our Resilience podcast. In this episode, BIGA sits down to talk with Nicholas Dungan, the CEO of CogitoPraxis – a European-based strategic consultancy firm whose work focuses on supporting clients to become ‘360 degrees resilience’. From his trans-Atlantic background spanning Stanford and Sciences Po, our conversation starts with …
Welcome back to the BIGA podcast! As promised, we are aiming to post one season per quarter, so you can expect four seasons and four fascinating topics to explore this year! With a world that seems increasingly volatile, chaotic, and unpredictable there is one phrase that has found increasing traction in security circles: resilience. In …
Welcome to the final episode in our Green Politics podcast! This season has brought in academics, activists, and consultants to discuss what climate change means for the UK, where to really locate the problems, and who takes responsibility for fixing them. In this last episode, however, we move away from the strictly political and towards …
In this penultimate episode, BIGA explores a debate that seems to be at the cross-roads of many of the issues that the UK faces: whether to build, or conserve. Our guest today has spent his career in “Prac-Academics” making sure that his research could be put to good use but Councillors and MPs alike. With …