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Guest Lecture on ‘Science and Security in the 21st Century’ at the Karolinska Institute, Dept
of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Stockholm.
Geneva Security Forum (international conference of c 2000 people with focus on IT and other
technological challenges):(i) 20 June, statement as panel member in opening plenary on
‘The Interconnectedness of today’s security threats: can we rise to the challenge?’.
Geneva Security Forum (international conference of c 2000 people with focus on IT and other
technological challenges):(ii) Chair and comment at panel session on ‘A Geopolitical
Approach to Global Security’.
Keynote Speech on ‘The Security Environment Today and Tomorrow’ for members of the
Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva.
Tällberg Forum, Dalarna, Sweden (international conference of several thousand people
focusing this time on global Climate and Environment challenges): co-chaired and spoke
to a series of breakout meetings on the ‘security’ strand together with Dr Tom Ries of Ui
and two US facilitators.
Lecture on ‘The Current Challenges for Nordic/Baltic Security’ as part of the Summer School
of the Centre for the Study of Small States, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
Panel statement on “The use of military assets in natural disaster relief” at the Humanitarian
Affairs Segment of the UN ECOSOC plenary 2007, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
Opening Lecture on ‘The Challenges of Security in the 21st Century’ to the annual top-level
Security Policy Course of the Danish Chief of Defence Staff, outside Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Speech on ‘The Role of the UN Security Council in the Twenty-first Century’ at the public
conference on UNSC membership organized by the University of Iceland together with
the Government of Iceland (addressed by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister among
others).
Speech as part of panel on ‘Confidence and security building measures: European arms
control and disarmament structures – Prototypes? Export models? Obsolete?’ at a
conference of the London School of Oriental and Asian Studies and the Pugwash
movement, sponsored by Norway, on ‘The Middle East WMD–Free Zone’, SOAS,
London.
Lecture on ‘The EU and NATO in an enlarged Europe’ as part of the twice-yearly Senior
Officers Policy Course at the NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany (same event as in
February).
Talk on ‘A Nordic Defence Pact? – and what it would mean for Iceland’ at the Icelandic
Atlantic Treaty Association, Reykjavik.
Speech on ‘Prospects for NATO and the Transatlantic Relationship’ to the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly, plenary meeting at Reykjavik.
Chair and introduce panel at the international seminar co-sponsored by the Romanian
Embassy Stockholm, SIPRI, Ui and the Swedish National Defence College (SNDC) on
‘Challenges for the 21st Century: Energy and Environmental Sustainability: sharing
experiences between the countries of the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea regions’, SNDC
Stockholm.