Concluding remarks from the one day conference on Political Islam and Public Policy, held at King’s College London, 25 March 2010.
The conference brought together politicians, academics and other experts on political Islam to discuss whether and how the domestic and foreign policies of western governments should respond to political Islam in its various manifestations.
Speakers included:
– Former German Federal Minister of Justice, Prof. Dr. Herta Daeubler-Gmelin.
– Chairman of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Ruprecht Polenz
– Baroness Kishwer Falkner, LibDem Spokesperson for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
– Crispin Blunt MP, then Conservative Shadow Minister for Home Affairs and Counter Terrorism now the Minister for Prisons and Probation
The event was co-hosted with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), the German Embassy in London and The Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr).
