Wilton Park
Wilton
Park, an Executive Agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, runs conferences on key international policy challenges at its centre near Brighton, on the south coast of England.
The conferences cover a wide range of major international issues and attract high quality participation from around the world. They are open to all with expertise to share.
The academic independence of WiltonPark and the quality of its conferences are overseen by an Academic Council of distinguished figures from a wide range of occupations in the UK. They are appointed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Members of the Council participate in two meetings a year to discuss WiltonPark's conference themes and performance.
Wilton Park celebrates 60 years
A place, space and time to think - valuable enough now, in a world governed by mobile phones, e-mail and other forms of instant communication - invaluable at the time of Wilton Park's inauguration, in 1946, to help heal the ravages of World War Two.
The decision to set up a discussion centre, where people could to air their differences and seek points of understanding, was part of an initiative inspired by Sir Winston Churchill. The aim was ambitious - to help re-establish democracy in Germany after the war. Wilton Park took its name from its original base, an 18th century house, Wilton Park, near Beaconsfield, west of London, that had been turned into a prisoner of war camp during the war.
The Chatham House Rule
When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham house Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity not the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any participant, may be revealed.
Hungarians at Wilton Park
Many of the Hungarian attendees of WiltonPark conferences have been funded by the British Embassy who sees this as an important element of building partnerships with Hungary and deepening our collective understanding of international issues.
Embassy supported conferences by theme
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EUROPE IN THE WORLD: DEVELOPING THE EU COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY Friday 13 - Sunday 15 July 2007 |
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WHICH WAY FORWARD FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION? POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES Monday 6 - Wednesday 8 February 2006 |
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EUROPE'S COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 July 2005 |
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THE EU'S NEW EASTERN NEIGHBOURS: HOW WILL THE EU'S NEW POLICY EVOLVE? Monday 1 March – Thursday 4 March 2004 |
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JHA |
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Thursday 28 - Saturday 30 June 2007 |
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The purpose of the conference was to discuss migration, political and jurisdictional strategies which could help reduce human trafficking in the most effective way. The conference was an occasion to present and summarise results achieved so far in fighting human trafficking, and to outline the proposed steps necessary to take in the future. 61 people representing 27 countries' governmental bodies - primarily police, border guards, ministries, courts, prosecution services, anti-human trafficking agencies - and non-governmental organisations (IOM, Amnesty International, Helsinki Committee, churches) attended the conference. |
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TRANS-BORDER CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT: RESPONDING TO MAJOR ACTS OF CBRN TERRORISM IN EUROPE |
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Monday 18 - Wednesday 20 June 2007 |
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The European public at large is not aware of the threat posed by CBRN terrorism. Western governments face the same dilemma more or less: how to raise public awareness without "crying wolf" or creating self-fulfilling prophecies? How to better inform the public about possible CBRN scenarios without alarming it? How to engage the mass media and its leading representatives? How to involve civilians and NGOs? These are just a few questions that the conference tried to address. Participants were made aware of the emergence of the "citizen journalist" or "soldiers' media". |
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An act of CBRN terrorism constitutes a serious criminal offence therefore the management of its consequences, besides civil protection and disaster response actions, includes measures by the police and law enforcement authorities. Accordingly, trans-border co-operation and mutual assistance between European police and law enforcement agencies may be triggered by such an attack and usually is triggered by terrorist incidents. The aim of my overview is to take stock of the existing European arrangements that Member States' and especially Hungarian police and law enforcement authorities can or will be able to rely upon for co-operation and mutual aid during consequence management of terrorism. |
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DEFENCE, SECURITY AND CONFLICT PREVENTION |
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NATO AT 60: TOWARDS A NEW STRATEGIC CONCEPT Thursday 15 - Saturday 17 January 2009
As it reaches its sixtieth birthday, NATO is working towards a New Strategic Concept. What might this look like? How will NATO maintain its ability to perform the full range of its missions in the 21st Century: collectively defending our security at home and contributing to stability abroad? What is the significance for NATO of the new US Administration and France's reintegration into the Alliance's military structure? How can NATO address the hard security threats of the next decade while harmonising with the peacebuilding activities necessary to make its interventions effective in the long-term? Is NATO 'fit for purpose'?
Mr Zsolt Nagy, head of the Defence Policy Department of the Hungarian Ministry of Defence attended the conference, sponsored by the Embassy.
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Friday 29 September - Sunday 1 October 2006 |
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NATO’S POLITICAL AND MILITARY TRANSFORMATION: CURRENT ISSUES |
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Monday 9 - Thursday 12 January 2006 |
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Monday 17 - Friday 21 January 2005 |
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
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Monday 22 - Thursday 25 January 2007 |
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AFRICA |
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Monday 24 – Thursday 27 April 2006 |
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