JPR to host discussion of Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain report Panellists to include Lord Bikhu Parekh, key Commission members

LONDON, 13 October, 2000
NRIpress

Following close on the launch and publication of the Runnymede Trust's Report on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, JPR/ Institute for Jewish Policy Research will hold a panel discussion on the content and significance of the report for the UK today.

The report, titled Community of Communities and Citizens is the work of a 23-member Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain and was established by the Runnymede Trust in 1998. Chaired by Lord Bikhu Parekh, the report calls for sweeping political, cultural and educational changes that will enable the UK to become a country that 'celebrates diversity' on all levels.

Release of the 400-page Parekh Report comes eight months after the publication of the report of the Commission on the Representation of the Interests of the British Jewish Community established by JPR. The JPR publication, A Community of Communities, is prominently cited in the Parekh Report.

JPR's panel discussion of the Parekh report will take place Wednesday, 18 October 2000 at 6:30 pm at Chatham House, 10 St James's Square, London SW1. Reservations are required. Please call JPR at 0207 935 8266.

Offering their analysis and answering questions from the audience will be five leading members of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain.

Lord Bikhu Parekh, chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain and emeritus professor of political theory at the University of Hull;
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, writer, journalist and columnist for the Independent;
Sarah Spencer, director of citizenship and governance at the Institute for Policy Research;
and Antony Lerman, director of European programmes for Yad Hanadiv.