Crime Day: Exploring Root Causes and Solutions to Organised Crime

What’s on offer?

Programme of events:

10am - 11am
The Past, Present and Future of Organised Crime
Keynote speech by Misha Glenny (author and producer of BBC series McMafia, rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna).
Room 4.10, School of Education

11.30am -12.30pm
How to turn street skills into legitimate business skills
A Q&A with Clayton Planter (Bristol-based civil society activist and Creative Entrepreneur, Founder of Streets2Boardroom) and Priyanka Raval (Reporter at The Bristol Cable).
Room 4.10, School of Education

1.00pm - 2.30pm
The Republic of the Outlaws: How Gangs Took Over a City in 1970s Lebanon
Premier screening of the documentary and Q&A with director Fatma Shehadeh (award-winning Lebanese filmmaker, head of production company Roarpark Films) and producer Raphaël Lefèvre (Senior Lecturer in International Relations and co-lead of the Peace Conflict and Violence research group at the University of Bristol). 
Helen Wodehouse Lecture Theatre, School of Education

What’s it about?

To explore root causes and solutions to organised crime ahead of the International Day for the Prevention of Organised Crime, the University of Bristol brings together a best-selling author and globally celebrated public intellectual, an award-winning anti-crime civil society activist in Bristol and the Lebanese artist behind Al-Jazeera's new true crime show. 

Who’s leading the event?

Raphaël Lefèvre (Senior Lecturer in International Relations and co-lead of the Peace Conflict and Violence research group at the University of Bristol). 

Open to

Adults

Of particular interest to

Of particular interest to those with an interest in international relations and organised crime.