Rachel Briggs
Director, Hostage UK
Rachel Briggs is Director of Hostage UK, a charity chaired by Terry Waite. It aims to provide support and practical help to the families of hostages and the hostages upon release, and also offers educational services to organisations sending employees to work in kidnap hot spots. For more information, see www.hostageuk.org Rachel runs Hostage UK part-time, and spends the rest of her time as a visiting fellow of UCL where she conducts research on radicalisation. She is also a freelance...
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- UN: Uniting Nations? Sam Jones and I are currently in New York talking to people about how culture can smooth the way for diplomacy and good relations between countries, even those who are barely speaking to one another across the negotiating table. from : rachelbriggs 12th July 2006
- Trashing designer flip flops in the name of world peace So, today I made my way through the white tent of security that is the front door to the UN and proudly stepped into the centre of global politics. I was met by collages, photo exhibitions and quite famous sculptures and made my way up to the 38th floor of the UN bui䁬ding, and into Kofi Anan's Secretariat office. from : rachelbriggs 13th July 2006
- Getting tougher on terrorism, tougher on the causes of terrorism?... From the other side of the Atlantic, we instinctively feel that the US has totally over-reacted to the threat of terror. Sitting in my hotel room just around the corner from the White House, and after scores of discussions about the Bush administration's record in this area, this instinct seems pretty spot on. What's more, I'm sure that the security at Heathrow on Thursday morning will remind me that we are not far behind that ourselves. from : rachelbriggs 18th July 2006
- Life thru a lens Shan Song is an underground film maker in Beijing. By day he writes scripts for government-produced TV dramas, by night he makes films through a collective he set up after film school called 22Film. Sam and I met him yesterday to talk about the ways in which independent film making is bringing about social change in China.The advent of digital cameras and the internet has enabled a generation of young people to make films about themselves, how they live and where they want China to go. They go... from : rachelbriggs 13th October 2006
- Stop the Press! While we've been in China, a lot of people have made veiled references to the censorship of the press. Mostly, they either assume you know how the system works, or prefer not to get drawn on the subject. Once or twice, interviewees have clearly been worried that we are western press, so we've had to reassure them of our (lack of) credentials. Tonight, however, Sam and I finally got to sit down and have dinner with a journalist (who will remain nameless) who was very generous with her time and... from : rachelbriggs 15th October 2006
- Cultural Diplomacy Cultural Diplomacy argues that the huge global reach and potential of Britain’s world class artistic and cultural assets – from Razorlight to the Royal Ballet - should be at the heart of government relationship building abroad. from : markfuller 27th February 2007