All Blogs

I attended the Balkan Dialogue 2026 meeting in Belgrade between 2 and 6 June. At first glance, the gathering looked like a familiar regional dialogue platform, bringing together diplomats, energy specialists, academics, media representatives and experts dealing with military-political affairs. Yet the content of the discussions and the profile of the participants pointed to something more significant: the Balkans are once again becoming one of the key arenas of great-power an

The Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD), organised by the United Nations General Assembly, was hosted by Qatar from November 4-6, 2025.

The 2025 SDG Moment was held on Monday 22 September 2025, at the start of the high-level week of the 80th UN General Assembly, in New York. It was organised as a ‘townhall’ style event, held at the Economic and Social Council Chamber (ECOSOC) in UN Headquarters. Leaders from governments and stakeholder groups discussed ways to accelerate progress during the final five years of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Speak

The post-WWII Rules Based International Order now faces its most severe global threat since the Cold War...

The 2030 Agenda was agreed by the UN in 2015 and simply described as a plan of action for people, planet, prosperity and peace...

The CSIG aligns with the UN OHCHR’s (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) framework connecting good governance and human rights...