Category: Events
Report: Dr Armen Sarkissian talk – March 10, 2025
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – March 12, 2025 Talk topic: The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World Speaker: Dr Armen Sarkissian Followed by a Q&A discussion chaired by Helen Goodman, BEARR Trustee The BEARR Trust was pleased to host a talk this spring by Dr Armen Sarkissian, former …
BEARR Event: Talk and Discussion with Dr Sarkissian, Former President of Armenia
The BEARR Trust organised a talk and discussion with Dr Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia (2018-2022), who presented his book The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World and discussed the current political situation in Armenia. With relations between Armenia and neighbouring Azerbaijan deteriorating, this was an important and timely opportunity to hear …
Report: The BEARR Trust Annual Conference – November 29, 2024
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – December 9, 2024 Civil Society Innovation in Health and Social Welfare at Times of Crisis in The BEARR Trust Region The 2024 BEARR Trust Annual Conference focused on how civil society organisations have responded in creative ways to multiple crises over the past few years, including the Covid …
Report: The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture – October 23, 2024
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – November 6, 2024 Lecture title: “Ukraine – What Next?” Speaker: Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman Followed by a Q&A discussion chaired by Sir Roderic Lyne, BEARR Patron and former British Ambassador to the Russian Federation 2000–2004 The BEARR Trust Autumn Lecture 2024 was delivered by military historian Professor Sir …
The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2024
The BEARR Trust Annual Conference took place on Friday 29 November 2024. The theme this year was: “Civil society innovation in health and social welfare at times of crisis in the BEARR Trust region”. The Annual Conference focused on the strategies which local organisations have developed to meet the challenges they face and how they view …
BEARR’s 2024 Annual Lecture “Ukraine — What Next?”
The BEARR Trust held its 2024 Annual Lecture, kindly hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at their headquarters in Canary Wharf (5 Bank St, London E14 4BG) on Wednesday 23 October 2024. The lecture titled “Ukraine — What Next?” was given by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman. The Q&A session was moderated …
2023 BEARR Trust Annual Conference Panel member information
First panel – moderated by Megan Bick, BEARR Trustee Panel member name Nataliya Shmurikova Organisation name Centre for Strategic Initiatives NGO (CSI NGO) Organisation location Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Organisation start date 18.12.2002 Organisation size (no. of staff and volunteers) Up to 10 people (2 permanent staff) Beneficiaries of the organisation’s work At present – internally displaced …
BEARR report on visit to Moldova: February – March 2023
Alexia Claydon (BEARR’s Information Officer) and Jane Ebel (Muse CIC and BEARR Trustee) spent a week in Moldova playing djembe, Brazilian drums and shakers with children in 6 Refugee Activity Centres, whilst also taking time to meet with several of The BEARR Trust’s beneficiaries and local partners. Community musicians Peter Vilk and Tony Pesikan [centre] …
Change of focus for RememberUs in Ukraine
Since the launch of our Emergency Appeal last year, BEARR has been introduced to a number of voluntary organisations in Ukraine. Some of these organisations have come together over the course of last year: groups of ordinary citizens who rallied together in the face of the full-scale invasion. Others had existed before the war, but …
Report: The BEARR Trust’s 30th Anniversary Lecture
Russia: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma Ross Gill, BEARR TrusteeMarch 2023 The BEARR Trust’s thirtieth anniversary year saw Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the return of war to Europe and a humanitarian crisis. BEARR has once again supported emergency assistance, as we did in the early 1990s – this time through a …
