Posted Monday, 06 December, 18:12
By Alexander Nicoll, Director of Editorial
The Manama Dialogue 2010 has ended. Closing the conference,
Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive, said this seventh
Dialogue was the biggest yet. It had shown the value of the event in cutting
across bureaucratic divides and providing an informal forum for the future of
regional security to be discussed and new policy prescriptions advanced. The
IISS, in its research work, would be taking up the themes of the Dialogue – for
example in cybersecurity.
Dr Chipman thanked the Kingdom of Bahrain for its enormous hospitality and
support for the Manama Dialogue. Planning for the 8th Manama
Dialogue 2011 now begins and the dates will be announced soon.
Transcripts of all the Dialogue plenary sessions, as well as
photographs and blog posts, can be found on IISS Website.
This blog will resume next year, and meanwhile follow posts on the Institute’s
regular blog, IISS Voices.
