News & Press

September 17, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC — HFX, the Washington, DC-based convener of the Halifax International Security Forum, is pleased to announce three new members of its Board of Directors. The Honorable Mark Lippert, a current Board member, has also been appointed as Board Vice Chair. The new Board members are: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who was elected […]

July 27, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC–HFX today announced the 2021 class of its landmark Peace With Women Fellowship. The program, now in its fourth year, experienced the most competitive selection process to date with a record number of countries submitting applications. Accomplishments of the 2021 class include: The first woman to reach the Admiral ranks in […]

July 21, 2021

Washington, DC — HFX, the Washington, DC-based convener of the prestigious Halifax International Security Forum, is proud to announce that it will hold its first major meeting in Asia in Taipei, Taiwan. HFX TAIPEI will happen on January 21-23, 2022 in association with Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR). “HFX will celebrate the […]

June 9, 2021

The last week of May began with the dictator in Belarus hijacking a commercial passenger plane in Europe so he could imprison a young dissident journalist. The week ended with the dictator in China hijacking the courts in Hong Kong so he could imprison dissidents there. It might seem that it has been a bad […]

April 7, 2021

  By chipping away at China’s sense of its own invincibility, we can gradually change the climate that also encourages Beijing to believe it can take hostages, like the two Michaels, with impunity. As China ramps up the pressure on democracies across the world—throwing in the recent Stalinist-era denunciation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as […]