Fiker Institute hosted Senior Fellow Shurouq Jaradat for a lecture on fragmentation in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The lecture explored how the war in Ukraine has intensified tensions among the United Nations Security Council Permanent Five (P5) and how shifts in US policy under President Trump, particularly regarding Russia and Ukraine, have reshaped dynamics among the P5 and ultimately affected coordination with European allies.

Fiker Institute hosted Sarah El-Abd, PhD candidate in political science and international relations at Sciences Po, Paris for a lecture on competing approaches in humanitarian policies, exploring how a single institutional ecosystem engages with multiple humanitarian and political mandates.

Fiker Institute’s Working Group on Gulf Foreign Policy held its second meeting and discussed the implications of the ceasefire announcements and the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis.

As part of its Al-Khaleej Program, Fiker Institute launched the Working Group on Gulf Foreign Policy in March 2026 in response to the ongoing Iran War. The Group seeks to establish a coordination mechanism that convenes expert voices from the six GCC countries to exchange views on the current developments and the future policy trajectories of the GCC states. 

Fiker Institute hosted Bahraini diplomat and Al-Khaleej Fellow Ahmed Buhejji to discuss energy diplomacy in the Gulf.

Fiker Institute and the Global Governance Forum co-hosted a symposium under the theme “Reforming the UN Charter”. The symposium gathered experts to discuss ongoing debates on the influence of multilateral institutions and their role in strengthening international stability and security. 

Fiker Institute, in collaboration with the Climate Governance Commission, co-hosted a public symposium convening leading experts and policymakers to examine the urgent need for a renewed global governance architecture capable of addressing the climate crisis.

As part of the newly launched Memorandum of Understanding between Fiker Institute  and the University of Oxford’s Global Security Programme, Fiker Institute hosted Dr. Annette Idler, Director of the Global Security Programme at the University of Oxford’s Pembroke College and Associate Professor in Global Security at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, for a public lecture on the role of ceasefire in global security.