
The Humanitarian Intervention Centre Project serves as a division of the Human Security Centre. The origins of this project are found in the Humanitarian Intervention Centre, which focussed on issues surrounding intervention.
Whilst the work of the Human Security Centre is now broader, the organisation maintains an expertise on these issues, and continues to produce expert research and analysis on possible international responses to mass-atrocity crimes and humanitarian crisis. On such issues, drawing attention to the consequences of both action, and inaction, are an important contribution to public discourse.
The HIC Project has produced evidence for multiple Parliamentary Committee inquiries, which have been widely cited and regarded as influential contributions to important policy debate. These are available below.
Rowan Allport
November 19, 2025
Europe, Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The House of Commons Defence Committee has published its report, The UK Contribution to European Security. The report, to which the HSC gave written and oral evidence, concludes that while the UK remains a leading European security actor, it needs to take measures to “urgently strengthen its conventional and nuclear capabilities, improve interoperability with Allies, strengthen its defence industrial base and ensure it can defend the UK homeland and overseas territories.”
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Rowan Allport
April 30, 2025
Events, Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
HSC Deputy Director Dr Rowan Allport is giving evidence to the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee’s inquiry ‘The UK contribution to European Security’ on Tuesday 29 April 2025.
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Rowan Allport
February 13, 2025
Europe, Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles
The House of Commons Defence Committee has published the HSC’s evidence on the UK contribution to European Security. The inquiry comes amidst an ongoing Strategic Defence Review, and as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth year.
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Rowan Allport
October 3, 2024
Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee has published its report Ukraine: a wake-up call. The paper outlines the central lessons of the Russia-Ukraine conflict for UK defence policy.
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Rowan Allport
May 21, 2024
Europe, Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee has published the HSC's evidence on the implications of the war in Ukraine for UK defense. The inquiry comes as the conflict enters its third summer and Russia has intensified its offensive operations.
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Rowan Allport
February 6, 2024
Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The House of Commons Defence Committee has published its ‘Ready for war?' report. The HSC provided evidence to the inquiry centred upon a breakdown of key capability shortfalls.
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Rowan Allport
December 1, 2023
Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Parliamentary Evidence, Security and Defence
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee has published ‘Our Friends in the North: UK Strategy Towards the Arctic’ report. The inquiry sought to identify defense and security challenges the UK faces in the Arctic region, as well as examine wider issues such as environmental changes and resource extraction, and the UK government’s response to them.
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Rowan Allport
July 25, 2023
Evidence to Parliament, HSC in the Media, Latest Articles, Parliamentary Evidence, Security and Defence
The UK House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee has published its report 'Defence in Scotland: the North Atlantic and High North'.
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Rowan Allport
June 16, 2023
Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
The House of Commons Defence Committee has published the HSC's evidence on defence readiness. The inquiry comes in the midst of the conflict of Ukraine, and in advance of the publication of the Defence Command Paper Refresh, which is due later this month.
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Rowan Allport
March 5, 2023
Events, Evidence to Parliament, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
Human Security Centre Deputy Director Dr Rowan Allport is giving evidence to the UK House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee's inquiry 'Defence in Scotland: the North Atlantic and the High North'
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