Overcoming Extremism Featured Speaker | Mr. Anthony Barnett

We are proud to announce Mr. Anthony Barnett as a featured speaker at our Overcoming Extremism conference. (October 22nd-23rd: You can still register!)  Founder of openDemocracy.net, Mr. Anthony Barnett's ability to gain widespread support for the democratic reform of Britain in the early 1990s gives an idea of the intelligence and passion of our speaker. As a journalist and writer, Barnett actively pursues his role of keeping debates alive, showing courage and strength in his relentless social advocacy. Undoubtedly his wonderful expertise in online media will add great depth to our Changing Media Landscape workshop.

[...] Off to New York

Submitted by on Sat, 10/13/2007 - 9:37am.

[...] Off to New York Posted on 13 October 07, 11:36 am by ourkingdom Anthony Barnett (The Atlantic, OK): Thanks to the wonders of WordPress’s time stamp system, this post should appear as I am over the Atlantic, heading for New York and then Washington where I will be speaking at a CSIS conference on Overcoming Extremism  along with my colleague Kanishk Tharoor  who edits oD’s Terrorism and Democracy  section - and writes its brilliant  security briefing. I am looking forward to New York, of course, and also to reporting back on how British politics seems from there. I have a feeling that it is Sarkozy and Merkle who are making the waves, but we will see as the EU summit looms what the North Americans make of the new Treaty, which for the time being, until we get our own, will provide the nearest thing we have in Britain to a written constitution… [...]