Taking place about a year after the referendum on Crimea’s political future, this two day event brought together academics, policy makers and researchers from Crimea, Russia, Ukraine, Canada and Germany. It focused on the current situation in Crimea, the lives of the Crimean people and current and future relations between Ukraine and Russia as well as the role of the West in finding a cooperative solution to the conflict1 . The first day was organised around the Käte Hamburger Dialogue co-organized and hosted by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn on 9th April featuring an expert panel that examined the political, humanitarian and security situation in Crimea. A subsequent workshop on 10th April featured those same panellists along with academics drawn from the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg Essen, Ruhr Bochum University, Carleton University, Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University and Taurida National Vernadsky University/ Crimean Federal University.