Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson, who helped initiate the conference, said the group emerged as a response to a "civilisational" moment in which the Western world "is plagued by self-doubt and confusion" regarding its values and beliefs. In the face of this crisis, Anderson characterised the goal of ARC was to "regroup, and put forward a positive agenda" It is associated with psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson. One Australian journalist identified the purpose of ARC as follows: "to replace a sense of division and drift within conservatism, and Western society at large, with a renewed cohesion and purpose". == Organisation ==

Company records in the UK show ARC has two shareholders – the Dubai-based investment management group Legatum and the British investor and Brexit advocate Sir Paul Marshall. == Conference ==

addresses the conference, 2023. The group's first conference was held in Greenwich, London, 30 October – 1 November 2023. The journalist Fraser Nelson of The Daily Telegraph described it as one of the "largest gatherings of the global centre Right in recent British history". Among the speakers were Kevin McCarthy, former speaker of the US House of Representatives; John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia; Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator; and former Dutch politician and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Bishop Robert Barron gave a talk on "What is the True Nature of Freedom". The English author and social critic Os Guinness was on a panel discussion with Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and John Anderson. speaking with audience member Kimberly Ells after a talk, 18 February 2025 An evening event held at the O2 Arena was headlined by Jordan Peterson, with several authors and commentators, such as Douglas Murray, Ben Shapiro, global warming sceptic Bjørn Lomborg and Jonathan Pageau, and attracted a crowd near to its capacity of 20,000. It was reviewed by Premier Christianity as "high-brow thought and unscripted conversation", while some media were more critical, with The Guardian writing that, in a year of floods and heatwaves and likely to be the hottest on record, attendees were offered "a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points that ignored the risks from climate change". The organisation held its second conference from 15 to 19 February 2025 at ExCeL London with about 4000 attendees. == References ==