On 22 April, Dan Smith, SIPRI Director, joined a virtual meeting of the Delegation for Relations with the Mashreq Countries and the Delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. The topic for the meeting was ‘The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Can the EU Help to Overcome the Dispute?’.
SIPRI and the Stimson Center will host a virtual event presenting and analysing the latest trends in global arms transfers and military expenditure.
On 29 April, SIPRI hosted a virtual workshop on ‘Nuclear CBMs and Transparency in South Asia: Voices from India, Pakistan, China, Russia and the USA’.
On 21–22 April, SIPRI actively participated in the Second German National Dialogue Forum on the Biological Weapons Convention. The event was organized by the German Federal Foreign Office and was held in a virtual format.
SIPRI is proud to announce that the 2021 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development will be held on the theme of ‘Promoting Peace in the Age of Compound Risk’.