On the 19th of May, Forward Thinking organized a private roundtable discussion on developments in the Gulf-MENA region with Dr Ibrahim Fraihat, Associate Professor in International Conflict Resolution at the Doha Institute for Graduate...
On the 24th of February, Julian Weinberg and Harry Higginson met with the Foreign Minister of Oman, H.E. Sayyid Badr Albusaidi. The meeting was organised in cooperation with the German Embassy in Muscat. Further...
On the 23rd of February, Forward Thinking visited Oman for meetings with the Ministry of Health of Oman, including with H.E. the Minister of Health of Oman, Dr Ahmed Al Saeedi. The purpose of...
On the 22nd of February Julian Weinberg and Harry Higginson visited Saudi Arabia to meet with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Finland. The visit provided an opportunity to discuss the...
On the 27th of January a meeting of the Tunisia Young Leaders Forum (TYLF) was held. Participants were Tunisian activists (under the age of 40) spanning the political spectrum and coming from a variety...
The Helsinki Policy Forum convened a high-level online discussion of its Health Working Group, 17th January 2022, to discuss the importance of the Global Health for Peace Initiative (GHPI). It was opened by H.E....
On the 14th of September the Health Working Group of the Helsinki Policy Forum met online to discuss how the experience of Covid-19 can help with preparations for future pandemics. Participants are senior government...
Forward Thinking has worked extensively in Tunisia since the revolution of 2011. Between 2012-2014 we facilitated an EU sponsored process that brought together all major political forces to identify where there was sufficient consensus...
On Monday 7 June, members of Helsinki Policy Forum Women Parliamentarians Network met to hear from an Iraqi MP on the struggles faced in passing legislation against domestic violence in Iraq. The meeting was...
On the 26th of May, a meeting of the Helsinki Policy Forum (HPF) steering group took place in Helsinki, hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. It was attended by representatives from...