The AHRC publishes reports of some of its public policy seminars and other activities. Below is a list of these reports
1. The Equality and Human Rights Commission: Challenges and opportunities (pdf 529kb)
December 2011
This report summarises the one day workshop entitled The Equality and Human Rights Commission: Challenges and Opportunities, which took place in London on June 17 2011.
The purpose of the day was to provide a forum for practitioners and scholars from across disciplines to undertake an appraisal of the EHRC.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission replaced the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and Disability Rights Commission (DRC). It came into being in 2007 amidst vocal opposition from across the political spectrum to the Human Rights Act, the increasing influence of human rights legislation emanating from Strasbourg and the legislative project that would eventually become the Equality Act 2010. The transition from the three legacy commissions it replaced was difficult, but recently the EHRC has begun to take strides towards finding its distinctive institutional voice on the national stage. However, it continues to be buffeted by powerful political crosswinds, and it has remained largely peripheral to mainstream debate.
The workshop provided a timely contribution to debate on the development of the EHRC and its future at a time when it faces a number of issues in addition to its formation.
2. Lessons Learnt: Post-Mubarak developments within the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (pdf 503kb)
December 2011 – Dr Lorenzo Vidino, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Part of the ‘Lessons Learnt’ series of AHRC policy publications.
3. Lessons Learnt: “Islamic, Independent, Perfect and Strong”: Parsing the Taliban’s Strategic Intentions, 2001-2011 (pdf 644kb)
January 2012 - Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, Part of the ‘Lessons Learnt’ series of AHRC policy publications.
The ‘Lessons Learnt’ project was originally funded by a grant from King’s College London. In May and June 2010 Rob Dover and Michael Goodman, with AHRC funding, ran a series of 5 policy seminars on Lessons Learnt from the History of British Intelligence and Security. These were held in partnership with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Cabinet Office, King’s College London and The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
This current project aims to build upon the 2010 seminars, improving and developing the relationship between researchers and government via the production of research and briefing papers, and seminars held in Whitehall. The primary impact is on improving national security, achieved via academics contributing to the development of the government’s analytical capability.
The project is split into two halves:
• Highlighting historical examples of good analysis.
• Improving understanding of regions of current interest.
Leading academics have been specially commissioned to produce research and briefing papers for a Whitehall audience. This publication series reproduces the reports.