Oliver McTernan and the entire Forward Thinking team would to express our condolences at the sad news that President Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia passed away today aged 92. Forward Thinking had the...
On 22nd July 2019, Forward Thinking facilitated a roundtable between representatives from the Home Office and diverse British Muslim community representatives from Manchester, Bradford, Birmingham and London. The aim of the meeting was to...
Oliver and Julian visited Iran 4th-9th July. They had been invited by the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), and the purpose of the visit was to discuss the work of the Helsinki...
On 10th July 2019, Maisie Cook, UK Programme Intern, attended Remembering Srebrenica’s annual Srebrenica genocide memorial event at the Guildhall, London. Remembering Srebrenica is a British charitable initiative which aims to tackle prejudice and...
Julian Weinberg visited Saudi Arabia for meetings with government officials, Shura Council members, the Gulf Cooperation Council, King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies and members of the international community. During the visit, Julian discussed...
On the 27th of June, Oliver McTernan was invited to give a talk at a conference in Gaza with religious scholars on the theme, “A Better Understanding of the Relationship with the West.” The...
As part of the latest visit to the region, Forward Thinking held a number of activities within Gaza, that predominately focussed on the challenges facing young people in Gaza in the current context. This...
As part of a series of activities in the region, members of the Forward Thinking team have been holding bi-lateral meetings in Jerusalem, Migdal and Tiberius with members of the Knesset, ministerial advisors and...
As part of a series of activities in the West Bank, Forward Thinking invited Professor Alain Lemperuer to chair a discussion with cross-factional political figures from Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus. Professor Lemperuer is the Alan B. Slifka...
On 18th June 2019, Forward Thinking participated in the fifth meeting of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Community Conversations initiative in Manchester. A number of influential community figures with constituency gathered at the Manchester Central...