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Nuclear energy: time to move ahead
24-25 June 2005. Ditchley experimented with a change from its normal format for this conference, which we called a “Workshop”. The duration was restricted to 24 hours, from Friday to Saturday lunch time. We designed the discussion to respond in particular to the potential need of the UK Government to start looking during the course of the new Parliament at the case for nuclear new-build.
URL: /page/338/nuclear-energy.htm, Last Modified: 16/01/09
Ditchley Foundation Lecture XLI
8 July 2005. Ditchley Foundation Lecture XLI: "Britain's role: Has Dean Acheson's question been answered yet?" Delivered by: The Rt Hon The Lord Patten of Barnes CH, Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities.
URL: /page/157/ditchley-lecture-xli.htm, Last Modified: 16/06/06
The challenges of governing in a freer and more complex world
2-4 December 2005. The subject chosen – in effect how governments should be adapting to the pressures of the modern world – rounded off a series of 2005 conferences focussing on governance in the face of change.
URL: /page/119/challenges-of-governing.htm, Last Modified: 12/06/06
Britain\'s Constitutional Future
28-30 October 2005. This conference on Britain’s future constitutional arrangements was more ambitious even than the Ditchley norm, in taking on an issue with such broad ranging-implications, touching on some acute political sensitivities.
URL: /page/118/britains-constitution.htm, Last Modified: 26/07/06
Iraq: the consequences for the region and for the wider international community
14-16 October 2005. As Iraqis prepared to vote in the referendum on their draft Constitution, Ditchley gathered to assess the strategic implications of the stage now reached.
URL: /page/117/iraq-consequences.htm, Last Modified: 12/06/06
Freedom and security: an appropriate balance?
30 September-2 October 2005. The first home conference of the season turned out to be even more topical than the high Ditchley average, following the bombings and attempted bombings in London in July. The reactions to those, and to America’s 9/11, underlay the debate.
URL: /page/104/freedom-and-security.htm, Last Modified: 09/06/06
The world`s cities: can they take the strain?
16-18 September 2005. With a large proportion of participants coming from the UK and Canada, we tried to draw some lessons that would be appropriate for the growing number of global megacities as well as for conurbations closer to home.
URL: /page/103/cities.htm, Last Modified: 20/07/06
The Politics and Problems of Water
10-12 June 2005. Ditchley’s mid-summer conference – the date was right, but the cold wind and grey sky came from another season – took up the source of all life, water.
URL: /page/102/politics-of-water.htm, Last Modified: 09/06/06
World opinion and public diplomacy: how should policy makers influence and be influenced?
4-6 May 2005. The McCormick Tribune Foundation Headquarters at Cantigny, Illinois provided the attractive setting and the spring weather to inspire a very interesting conference on Public Diplomacy, held in harness with Ditchley’s long-time partners, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
URL: /page/101/public-diplomacy.htm, Last Modified: 09/06/06
Iran\'s Future Path
11-13 March 2005. Iran is our only single-country subject for a 2005 conference and Ditchley was on its usual form in predicting a topical time for this discussion.
URL: /page/100/irans-future-path.htm, Last Modified: 24/07/06
The role of women in the developing world
8-10 April 2005. Ditchley has not for some time attempted a conference on women’s issues and the Director thought that he ought to correct the imbalance before his UN credentials faded into the distance.
URL: /page/99/women---developing-world.htm, Last Modified: 09/06/06
The US Election: prospects for the new administration
25-27 February 2005. The coldest weekend of the winter so far brought Ditchley a high-temperature conference of political discussion as we looked at the implications of the US Election results of November 2004 .
URL: /page/98/us-election.htm, Last Modified: 09/06/06
Challenges to global economic governance
14-16 January 2005. Ditchley started its 2005 programme with perhaps the most complex subject of all, the future of the world economy under all the influences of globalisation.
URL: /page/97/global-economy.htm, Last Modified: 13/06/06
Past Programme 2005
Past Programme 2005
URL: /page/78/2005.htm, Last Modified: 14/01/09