Conference Reports

This section provides a record of dialogues and roundtables on major policy challenges of our time. Through these discussions, political leaders, diplomats, senior officials, academics, business leaders, scientists, and civil society representatives have exchanged perspectives on issues of global significance. As a result, the reports offer valuable insights into the ideas and policy approaches that emerged from these exchanges.

The reports cover a broad range of issues central to international affairs. In particular, they address peace and conflict, water diplomacy, regional cooperation, environmental security, emerging technologies, governance, and global order. While many reports focus on South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, they also examine wider international trends and the growing interdependence of global challenges.

Taken together, these publications synthesise the principal themes, areas of convergence, and policy recommendations arising from expert deliberations. In doing so, they provide an account of how complex issues have been understood at different points in time. Moreover, the Conference Reports document dialogues across disciplines, sectors, and regions, thereby illustrating how such exchanges have contributed to the development of practical policy responses.

For researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and students, the collection serves as a valuable resource. Not only do the reports demonstrate how sustained engagement can generate new perspectives among diverse stakeholders, but they also identify opportunities for cooperation. Furthermore, they support informed decision-making in areas where conventional approaches have often proved insufficient.

Ultimately, these publications reflect the evolution of Strategic Foresight Group’s work over time. At the same time, they demonstrate the organisation’s continuing commitment to informed dialogue, independent analysis, and constructive international engagement. Beyond serving as a record of past deliberations, the Conference Reports help readers understand the ideas, partnerships, and policy initiatives that have shaped the organisation’s contribution to international peace, security, and cooperation.

P5 Experts Roundtable- Online on AI- Nuclear Nexus

The Normandy P5 Initiative on nuclear risk reduction launched by the Strategic Foresight Group and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (together the Co-Convenors) has been running since 2021. The Initiative seeks to engage the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to find solutions to catastrophic risk through dialogue with non-government experts from China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and United States.

P5 Experts Roundtable on Nuclear Risk Reduction

Summary report of a P5 Nuclear Risk Reduction roundtable held on 11-13 December 2023, in Geneva. Overall, the experts stressed that the issue of nuclear risk reduction remained crucial and urgent, particularly when linked to the risks posed by emerging technology. Dialogue amongst the nuclear five was an essential means of reducing tensions and minimising the risks of misunderstanding and miscalculation. Reducing nuclear risk was an important step in paving the way for negotiations to achieve everyone’s shared goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.

Roundtable on Global Security and Catastrophic Risks

Strategic Foresight Group, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and Region Normandy co-convened a roundtable of P4 experts for their Normandy P5 Initiative on Global Security and Catastrophic Risks on the background of deteriorating geopolitical and strategic environment.

Blue Peace Decade Conference Report

The Blue Peace Movement completed 10 years in February 2020. It was launched in February 2020, with initial emphasis on the Middle East, and later on expanded to cover different regions and global dimensions. To celebrate this, Strategic Foresight Group, and Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford University, along with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation co-hosted an international conference in London on 17-18 February in London. The report not only reflects on lessons from the last decade but also provides ideas for the next one.

International Media Workshop – Global Challenges of Water and Peace

An international workshop including an intergenerational dialogue of media leaders was held from 23-24 September, 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was attended by both senior media leaders and young journalists from all continents including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. The objective of the workshop was to sensitize the media on global challenges of water and peace and introduce Blue Peace as well as key recommendations of the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace.

An Unprecedented Opportunity:Blue Peace in the Middle East

Around 25 experts and media persons from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey met in Stockholm on 30-31 August 2018 to discuss the transfer of the management of Blue Peace in the Middle East Initiative from Strategic Foresight Group to a cooperative regional mechanism.

Publications

The Essential Convergence

India’s AI Gambit: Navigating the Global Race

Framework for Responsible Use of AI in the Nuclear Domain

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