Details of the group's meetings for the autumn will be posted when the new session starts on 6 October 2008.

With soaring food prices triggering riots in Egypt, climate change threatening increased population displacement and the world's growing demand for energy caught up with both, are these interlinked issues the new challenges to conflict prevention in Africa? If so, what could and should the international community - including the UK - do to address the problem? The speakers will assess the dimensions of these risks and provide an overview on how the international community perceives them, as well as how they are currently responding.

Speakers:

Lord Malloch Brown
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN

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2nd Speaker tbc

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Introduced by Hugh Bayley MP

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Chair
Claire Hickson
Head of Advocacy and Communications, Saferworld

Professor Paul Rogers, Bradford University and the Oxford Research Group, and Professor Mary Kaldor, LSE and author of 'Oil Wars', will explore the current status of the military dimension of Britain's oil security strategy. The meeting will also look at ways in which the UK can work to avoid future involvement in oil-related conflict.

This is a joint event with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas  (APPGOPO).