Archives

Our archives are a repository of original thinking that chronicles two decades of research, analysis, and policy innovation. This collection brings together articles written by SFG’s founders and research analysts between 2005 and 2025, preserving the ideas, and insights that shaped our intellectual journey. These writings reflect the evolution of our thinking as we engaged with some of the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities.

The archive offers a rich body of material for researchers, policymakers, students, journalists, and anyone interested in understanding complex global issues through a long-term strategic lens. The articles explore a wide spectrum of subjects, including peace and conflict, water diplomacy, international relations, technology, environmental sustainability, governance, security, and the changing dynamics of regional and global cooperation. They also place regional developments within broader international and geopolitical contexts.

Many of these articles anticipated trends and policy challenges that later became central to international discourse. Others document the development of concepts and frameworks that informed SFG’s subsequent research, dialogues, and publications. Together, they provide not only historical context but also enduring perspectives that continue to resonate in a rapidly changing world.

Beyond serving as a research resource, this archive offers a window into the intellectual history of SFG. It traces how our ideas evolved over time, how new policy concepts emerged through sustained inquiry, and how our engagement expanded from regional concerns to global challenges. Readers can follow the progression of our work across changing geopolitical landscapes and appreciate our evidence-based approaches to peace, security, and international cooperation.

Whether you are revisiting landmark analyses, exploring the origins of key policy ideas, or discovering our work for the first time, we hope these archives provide valuable insights, stimulate informed debate, and inspire fresh thinking about the future.

Reflections on a dialogue on A World Without War

Reflections on a dialogue on A World Without War

Saving Humanity from the Scourge of War

First published by the Global Governance Forum

Looking Forward, Looking Back

In January 2008, SFG published a report titled Global Security and Economy, which identified 20 issues that would impact the world from 2011-2020. Ilmas Futehally re-read the report recently and found that most the issues that we had identified did indeed play a significant role in the last decade.

Progress or Precipice???

The shore of Atlantic Ocean at Estoril is quiet. In May 2018, Frank-Jurgen Richter chose it for debating the most unquiet question facing the world over dinner with former Heads of States and Governments. Is humankind actualizing its unlimited potential or is it heading towards complete annihilation?

A matter of survival

A Matter of Survival

Water and world peace