In association with The Centre for International Studies at University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations, this one day conference will include panel discussions on topics such as international law, human security, European integration and state-building. Confirmed speakers at this conference include Prof Sir Adam Roberts (Oxford), Prof Chris Brown (LSE), Dr. David Chandler (Westminster), Prof Mervyn Frost (King's College London), and Prof RBJ Walker (Keele).

This conference will be the ‘sister conference’ to a SAID conference at Columbia University, New York, 1-2 December 2005. Many people claim that there is a divide between the British and American wings of the discipline of International Relations. These two ‘sister conferences’ are designed to help bridge this divide, by facilitating discussion and debate between the British and American scholarly communities.