Kindly note that keeping in mind health safety concerns, our responsibilities, and the objectives behind bringing together global invitees for the GPD, the eight co-sponsoring organisations have taken the decision to postpone the Global Policy Dialogue from 19-20 January 2022 to 1-2 March 2022.
As an initiative of the Global Governance and Innovation Network, the Stimson Center, Academic Council on the UN System, Plataforma CIPÓ, Leiden University, Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Global Challenges Foundation, the Institute for Economics & Peace, and Club de Madrid are proud to convene the Global Policy Dialogue on Global Governance Innovation: Beyond UN75 & Our Common Agenda, from 1-2 March 2022 at the Stimson Center and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
This tab is now an archive of a previous Global policy Dialogue that took place March 2022. To see information on our current June GPD in conjunction with the ACUNS Annual Meeting please see the June GPD 2022 tab.
BACKGROUND MATERIALS
Suggested Background Readings
- Our Common Agenda (September 2021)
- GGI E-consultation Summary Report (February 2022)
- Fulfilling the UN75 Declaration’s Promise: An Expert Series’ Synthesis of Major Insights and Recommendations (June 2021)
- Beyond UN75: A Roadmap for Inclusive, Networked & Effective Global Governance (June 2021)
- C4UN-GGIN Our Common Agenda Summary of Key Elements (December 2021)
- A New Vision for Global Cooperation (29 October 2021)
- Our Common Agenda and the Road to 2023 (29 October 2021)
- UN’s Guterres Proposes a 2023 Summit of the Future in ‘Our Common Agenda’ Report (13 September 2021)
- European Perspectives on Taking Forward the UN75 Declaration (4 March 2021)
- Middle Eastern Perspectives on Taking Forward the UN75 Declaration (8 June 2021)
- UN75 Leaders Network Joint Statement (10 November 2020)
- Call for Inclusive Global Governance – We The Peoples Campaign
- UN75 People’s Declaration and Plan for Global Action – UN2020 & Together First
- Building an Inclusive, Networked UN, Project Syndicate (23 June 2021)
- An appraisal of the global governance proposals in the UN Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” report – FOGGS (November, 2021)
- Making the UN More Relevant is Within Our Reach, PassBlue (21 June 2021)
The Breakthrough Groups
Conflict Prevention and Management
Objective: Build on and further develop at least two OCA recommendations, as well as one or two recommendations beyond the OCA report, to provide concrete substantive contributions from the Global Policy Dialogue on possible September 2023 Summit of the Future priorities. This group will focus on strengthening systemic approaches to conflict prevention and management in the multilateral architecture, particularly looking at community leadership, design and engagement.
Related background readings:
- Ecological Threat Register 2021 – Executive Summary, IEP
- Global Peace Index 2021 – Executive Summary, IEP
- The Astonishing Success of Peacekeeping – Foreign Affairs, November 2021
- Op-Ed: A U.N. peacekeeping mission could make all the difference in Afghanistan. Here’s why – Lise Morjé Howard, ACUNS
- A Step-by-Step Roadmap for Action on Afghanistan: What the United Nations and International Community Can and Should Do
- Towards Multiple Security Councils – UN75 Global Governance Innovation Perspectives
COVID-19 Response and Human Rights Promotion: Forging a New Social Contract
Objective: Build on and further develop at least two OCA recommendations, as well as one or two recommendations beyond the OCA report, to provide concrete substantive contributions from the Global Policy Dialogue on possible September 2023 Summit of the Future priorities. Focus, for example, on two underlying issues identified in the OCA report – the “infodemic” and tax avoidance – which stand behind erosion of trust and rising populist nationalism, undermining multilateral rules-based cooperation (pandemic and otherwise), as well as human rights protections (for women and girls specifically and for all generally).
Related background readings:
- Strengthening the Rules-Based Global Order: The Case for an International Rule of Law Package
- Coronavirus presents bonanza for kleptocrats
- Coping with New and Old Crises: Global and Regional Cooperation in an Age of Epidemic Uncertainty
Collaborative Economy and Promoting Global Public Goods
Objective: Build on and further develop at least two OCA recommendations, as well as one or two recommendations beyond the OCA report, to provide concrete substantive contributions from the Global Policy Dialogue on possible September 2023 Summit of the Future priorities. This breakthrough group will give attention to the major challenges associated with the slow-growing disorder in our system of global economic governance, fueling new anxieties against collective action through global and regional institutions. The group will also consider the effectiveness of current global and regional systems to deal better with current and emerging challenges, shaped by a decades-old structure, overlapping sets of rules, and, not least, demonstrated economic inequalities and perceived inequities. This group will also look at the links between the 2023 Summit of Future and 2025 World Social Summit.
Related background readings:
- 2019 Global Policy Dialogue on Economic Institutions: “A Better Framework for Global Economic Governance: Toward an action agenda for multilateral reforms”
- Deepening G20-UN System Cooperation to Foster Socio-Economic Recovery from the Pandemic and Reduce Inequality Worldwide: Towards a G20+
- The Economics of Shared Societies
- Toward A Global Shared Societies Agenda To Promote Long-Term Inclusive And Sustainable Growth
Climate Action and Governing the Environment and Global Commons
Objective: Build on and further develop at least two OCA recommendations, as well as one or two recommendations beyond the OCA report, to provide concrete substantive contributions from the Global Policy Dialogue on possible September 2023 Summit of the Future priorities. This breakthrough group will consider practical ways to overcome the apparent tension between the urgency for global cooperation to protect our planet and the global commons and the need to respect states’ sovereignty over the natural resources in their territories. The group will also assess the main gaps in the existing global climate governance and develop at least two concrete proposals of how existing (or new) climate governance mechanisms can more effectively address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution.
Related background readings:
- Closing the Governance Gap in Climate, Security, and Peacebuilding
- Multilateralism for Chronic Risks
- Abdenur, A.; and Folly, M. (2020) “The United Nations and Anthropocenic Governance“, Strategic Analysis. Available here
- Warner, J; and Boas, I. (2019). “Securitization of climate change: How invoking global dangers for instrumental ends can backfire“, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
- The Global Climate Governance Commission 2021 Interim Report
- Building Back Together & Greener: Twenty Initiatives for a Just, Healthy, and Sustainable Global Recovery