Our Perspective

We have commissioned in-depth research from leading think tanks across the world on the questions underpinning the Global Agenda. This programme will continue, meanwhile, we are making the insights that emerge from our own research, and those we derive from related programmes, available for discussion.

This year, at the Global Economic Symposium 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, we addressed the third challenge on the Global Agenda: Reducing Vulnerability and Enhancing Security. The research mandate was defined as: How best to address the sources of global, national and human vulnerability, and promote... Read More



Posted on Feb 17, 2014 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Sean Cleary, Executive Vice Chair, FutureWorld Foundation

Iran, Iraq, Syria and Israel-Palestine are the four areas of greatest immediate importance. The tragedy that the region now confronts is that the different conflicts feed off one another and engender new, divergent narratives and sources of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Iranians, Emiratis, Saudis...  Read More



Posted on Jul 21, 2012 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by  Kofi A. Annan.Secretary-General

Speech by: Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan,Time Warner Center (USA)08 December 2006 'My dear friends, Thank you all for being here. I could not ask for better company, on the last International Human Rights Day of my time in office, than this group of courageous human...  Read More



Posted on Jul 21, 2012 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Kofi A. Annan. United Nations

Nobel Lecture by: Kofi Annan, United Nations, Oslo, 2001 'Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, in Afghanistan, a girl will be born. Her mother will hold her and feed her, comfort her and care for...  Read More



Posted on Jun 03, 2012 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Sean Cleary, Executive Vice Chair, FutureWorld Foundation

In a remarkable recent article a leading Iranian academic has shed light on the current sense of identity and the weltanschauung of the powers that control the Islamic Republic of Iran. His argument, which has profound implications for the foreign and national security policies of...  Read More



Posted on Jul 21, 2012 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Kofi A. Annan. Secretary-General

Speech by: Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan,Princeton University (USA)28 November 2006 'Let me begin by saying how delighted I am to have been invited to give this address by a School named after Woodrow Wilson, the great pioneer of multilateralism and advocate of world peace, who...  Read More



Posted on May 11, 2012 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Sean Cleary, Executive Vice Chair, Future World Foundation

All of us need to change gears, and direction, in our approach to the challenges of the world between the eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia. The turmoil in the Arab world must focus our minds, causing us to look beyond past habits and present uncertainty...  Read More



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