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Chatham House is a world-leading policy institute based in London. Our mission is to help governments and societies build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world. We pursue our mission through dialogue, analysis and solutions-based ideas, and by empowering the next generation to build a better world.

Our work focuses on our core priorities of resolving conflict, pursuing democracy and multilateralism, and protecting the environment, while also addressing the crises of the moment. Through our research and convening, we are committed to answering the questions the world is asking and to thinking creatively about how to shape a brighter future.

Founded in 1920, Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, has been a source of independent analysis, trusted dialogue and influential ideas for more than one hundred years.


Latest reports

Tracing the ‘continuum of violence’ between Nigeria and Libya

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how the movement of people from Edo State fuels the Libyan conflict economy. Despite being thousands of miles apart, Libya and Edo State in southern Nigeria are connected by a centuries-old route for trade and the movement of people. Since the outbreak of conflict in...

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China ‘under siege’

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines how the US’s hardening China policy is seen in Beijing. The China–US relationship has no doubt deteriorated in recent years. Washington’s policy of containing China through the application of restrictions on certain goods and markets, as well as China’s own economic downturn, has increased the tension...

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Workplace AI in China

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines the changing profile of work and labour. The use of AI in Chinese workplaces and the impact on employees offers important lessons for the roll-out of this technology around the world. China places few restrictions on developers, and this environment has enabled the rapid emergence of...

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The strategic approach to countering cybercrime (SACC) framework

This report from UK think tank Chatham House presents a framework for a strategic approach to countering cybercrime. Cybercrime is a growing threat to global prosperity and national security around the world. Recent attacks against critical national interests in the US, Costa Rica and Ireland, among others, have shown the serious impact that malicious cyber...

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Assessing Russian plans for military regeneration

This report from UK think tank Chatham House assesses the challenges Russia faces in upgrading each of the main armed services and in reforming or developing its command structures. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now into its third year, has confounded many assumptions – both in Moscow and in the West – about the effectiveness...

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Cybersecurity of the civil nuclear sector

This report from UK think tank Chatham House considers the evolving cyberthreats that the civil nuclear sector faces both in peacetime and during conflict. A combination of factors – from energy security and decarbonization agendas to the emergence of small modular reactors (SMRs) that potentially make nuclear energy more accessible – are prompting many countries...

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A principles-based approach to cyber capacity-building (CCB)

This report from UK think tank Chatham House illustrates how a principles-based approach may inform the design, implementation and evaluation of a cyber capacity-building project. In 2021, members of the UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) agreed 10 principles for cyber capacity-building (CCB). However, to date, the principles have not had the impact that was expected...

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Driving universal health reforms through crises and shocks

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines driving universal health reforms through crises and shocks. Universal health coverage (UHC) is achieved when everyone receives the health services they need, free at the point of delivery. Target 3.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals sets the ambition for all countries to achieve UHC by 2030,...

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Ukraine’s wartime recovery and the role of civil society: Chatham House survey of Ukrainian CSOs – 2024 update.

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines how government, citizens and donors can work together to embed trust in reconstruction. Over the past decade, Ukraine has shown that successful cooperation between state and citizens can deliver highly effective structural reforms. Building on this record, the country’s government and international partners now need to...

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Artificial intelligence and the challenge for global governance

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines innovative approaches to AI regulation and governance. Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly and is creating new and significant challenges for governance. New mechanisms must be developed and existing approaches strengthened to support international cooperation on AI. States will need sufficient capacity to be meaningful actors...

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The role of the private sector in combatting gendered cyber harms

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how private sector technologies can both endanger and advance gender-transformative cybersecurity. Technologies developed by the private sector play a crucial part in generating, enabling and mitigating gendered cyber harms. They incorporate explicit and implicit gendered structures, ideals and assumptions, which are then propagated and reinforced...

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Gendered hate speech, data breach and state overreach

This report from UK think tank Chatham House Identifies the connections between gendered cyber harms to shape better policy responses. Cybersecurity is not only concerned with the essential work of protecting information and communications technologies. It is also about keeping all users safe in cyberspace from cybercrimes, data and privacy violations, harmful and abusive content,...

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Countermeasures in international law and their role in cyberspace

This report from UK think tank Chatham House explores the conditions under which countermeasures may be taken in cyberspace in line with customary international law. The emergence of information and communications technologies has reignited debates about how and when countermeasures can be used in cyberspace. Countermeasures are a well-established response mechanism available to states against...

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Three foreign policy priorities for the next UK government

This report from UK think tank Chatham House examines how the next government could use its foreign policy assets to best effect. With a general election imminent, it is already clear that the next UK government will take office in an immensely challenging environment for foreign policy. From wars in Gaza and Ukraine to concerns...

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Reviving Tanzania’s regional leadership and global engagement

This report from UK think tank Chatham House argues that Tanzania’s new foreign policy strategy must emphasize proactive engagement with regional institutions and on global issues. Tanzania has recently begun to re-emerge from a period of damaging isolationism under former president John Magufuli. This isolationism obstructed international investment and undermined the country’s credible history of...

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Upcoming events

13 September 2024

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In conversation with HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal

This event hosted by UK think tank Chatham House discusses how the ongoing Gaza war is impacting the region and the role external actors can play to support de-escalation. The Gaza war, now in its tenth month, continues with ever-worsening consequences for Palestinians and no end in sight. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has also heightened tensions...