📆 #SPIEF: On June 6 at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its ninth annual special session for the event: “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century.”

📍The event will take place in Conference Hall G2 at Pavilion G of the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will be open to all Forum attendees. The session will also be livestreamed on the Club’s website.

The theme of this year’s Valdai Club discussion is based on the premise that modern conflicts are a legacy of a past era and not a means to shape a future one. Instead, the future success of global and national development depends on our ability to avoid conflict. 

The Valdai Club will provide an opportunity for experts from Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa to present views that differ from Western concepts and discuss ways of promoting conflict-free harmonious development.

Participants in the Valdai Club session will consider the following issues:

❓How could interstate contradictions be resolved without clashes?
❓What conditions contribute to the harmonious development of diverse societies?
❓How can we overcome inequality, which gives rise to social conflicts and leads to political conflict?
❓Is the global community prepared to recognize the futility of conflict and seek new paths of development?

By tradition, the Valdai Club session at SPIEF-2024 will be opened by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇮🇳 Ram Madhav Varanasi, President of the India Foundation (India)

🇿🇦 Gustavo De Carvalho, Senior Research Fellow for Russian-African Relations at the South African Institute of International Affairs (South Africa)

🇮🇩 Rahakundini Bakrie Connie, professor at St. Petersburg State University (Indonesia)

🇨🇳 Wang Huiyao, Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (China)

🇷🇺 Ruslan Yunusov, Co-founder Russian Quantum Centre

Moderator:

🗣 Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/conflict-or-harmony-the-secret-of-proper-development-in-the-21st-century/

Working languages: Russian, English.

ℹ️ Venue:  Conference Hall G2, Pavilion G of the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre, Petersburg highway 64/1, St. Petersburg.

Admission to the event is possible for SPIEF-2024 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

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📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On June 1 at 19:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will participate in a webinar titled “The Radical Reorientation of Russian Foreign Policy”. Its organizer is the International Manifesto Group, which studies the evolution of the world order. The Valdai Club will act as an information partner for this event.

Russia’s foreign policy is experiencing a historical shift today, comparable to the early 1990s or the end of the 17th century, when Russia under Peter the Great turned to the European experience in pursuing new paths of development.

Sergei Karaganov, one of the leading experts on Russian foreign and defence policy, will share his assessments and forecasts at the webinar. First, in the format of an interview, which will be conducted by the Valdai Club experts Richard Sakwa and Radhika Desai, then, answering questions from the audience. Also, at the beginning of the webinar, Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club, will make an opening speech.

❓How is the reorientation of Russian politics proceeding so far?
❓What are its causes and driving forces?
❓What consequences does this entail for the Ukraine conflict?
❓What are the prospects for the division of the world between the West and the world majority?
❓How will Russian military doctrine change?

The participants will try to answer these and other questions during the webinar.

🎙️ Speaker:

🇷🇺 Sergei Karaganov, Academic Supervisor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (SVOP); Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Russia in Global Affairs journal @ruglobalaffairs; one of the founders of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Europe

🎙️ Interviewers:

🇨🇦 Radhika Desai, Professor, Department of Political Studies, Director of the Geopolitical Economics Research Group, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada)

🇬🇧 Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, senior researcher at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and honorary professor at the Faculty of Political Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University

https://valdaiclub.com/events/own/the-radical-reorientation-of-russian-foreign-policy-webinar/

Working languages: English, Russian.

✅ Register for a video conference on the Zoom platform here.

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⏰ TODAY at 19:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will participate in a webinar titled “The Radical Reorientation of Russian Foreign Policy”.

Its organizer is the International Manifesto Group, which studies the evolution of the world order. The Valdai Club will act as an information partner for this event.

Sergei Karaganov, one of the leading experts on Russian foreign and defence policy, will share his assessments and forecasts at the webinar. First, in the format of an interview, which will be conducted by the Valdai Club experts Richard Sakwa and Radhika Desai, then, answering questions from the audience. Also, at the beginning of the webinar, Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club, will make an opening speech.

❓How is the reorientation of Russian politics proceeding so far?
❓What are its causes and driving forces?
❓What consequences does this entail for the Ukraine conflict?
❓What are the prospects for the division of the world between the West and the world majority?
❓How will Russian military doctrine change?

The participants will try to answer these and other questions during the webinar.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/own/the-radical-reorientation-of-russian-foreign-policy-webinar/

Working languages: English, Russian.

✅ Register for a video conference on the Zoom platform here.

#valdaiclub

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⏰ TODAY at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its ninth annual special session for the event: “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century.”

📍The event will take place in Conference Hall G6 at Pavilion G of the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will be open to all Forum attendees. The session will also be livestreamed on the Club’s website.

Participants in the Valdai Club session will consider the following issues:

❓How could interstate contradictions be resolved without clashes?
❓What conditions contribute to the harmonious development of diverse societies?
❓How can we overcome inequality, which gives rise to social conflicts and leads to political conflict?
❓Is the global community prepared to recognize the futility of conflict and seek new paths of development?

Admission to the event is possible for SPIEF-2024 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

#SPIEF #SPIEF2024 #valdaiclub

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🎥 LIVE: at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will hold its special session “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century,” as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024.

https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/valdai-club-session-at-spief-2024v/

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🗣 On June 6, 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club held its special session “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century,” as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024.

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🗣 Is Progress Possible Without Conflict? Valdai Club Session at SPIEF 2024

As part of the business program at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), a session of the Valdai Club took place on June 6. The event’s participants explored the question of whether global and national development can occur without conflict and violence.

Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, noted in his introductory remarks that conflicts that stem from the past continue to dominate our world, yet the majority of people in the world do not wish to be involved in them and are seeking ways to avoid being drawn into them.

Fyodor Lukyanov, Valdai Club Research Director, who served as moderator for the session, pointed out that the notion of conflict as a catalyst for growth is embedded in the Western perception of progress, which is no longer the dominant perspective. He emphasized that countries with different philosophies are playing an increasing role on the global stage and invited participants to consider a world governed by different principles.

📑 Read an article on the Valdai Club session at SPIEF

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🌐 In contemporary international relations, the balance between conflict and harmony is continually negotiated.

The rise of global challenges traditional notions of warfare and necessitates cooperative, multilateral approaches. By integrating insights from neuroscience, world leadership capabilities, and international relations theory, it is possible to create a global community of shared values and attitudes among nation leaders.

Through these efforts, leaders can work together more effectively to address trade, economic and technology challenges, promote peace, and create a more just and harmonious international community, in pursuit of a more just and peaceful world, writes Rahakundini Bakrie Connie.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/conflict-or-harmony-russia-s-global-leadership/

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🇷🇺🇵🇰 On November 3, 2024, on the eve of the 21st Annual Meeting, the Valdai Discussion Club and Islamabad Policy Research Institute, basing on the long-standing traditions of friendship, cooperation and sympathy between the Russian Federation and Pakistan, signed a cooperation agreement.

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⏰ TODAY at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Against the backdrop of these and many other “maritime” challenges — piracy, maritime terrorism, infrastructure sabotage, and unresolved territorial disputes — the question arises:

❓Нow well does the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) correspond to modern realities?
❓What is the future of the maritime legal regime as seen by experts from different countries?
❓Based on the experience of the last thirty years, what specific benefits have participation in the Convention brought to Russia?
❓Is there a possibility that Russia will withdraw from the Convention in the foreseeable future?

These and other questions will be addressed by the participants in the discussion.

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen. 

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🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), we are starting an expert discussion dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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🗣 On November 25, 2024, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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🌐 Without the participation of the global majority, including the countries of the Global South, it is impossible to establish normal relations in the world.

Western countries have taken a course on dividing the world into “bad” and “good”, and this is a very dangerous trend.

Indonesia and Russia, like many other countries, want to live in an open world where there are common rules for everyone, said Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, speaking at the Conference on Indonesian Foreign Policy (CIFP) on November 30, 2024. This year’s event is titled “Can Middle Powers Calm the Storm and Fix the World?”

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/andrey-bystritskiy-speaks-at-the-conference-on-indonesian-foreign-policy/

📍 The Conference on Indonesian Foreign Policy (CIFP) is an annual forum organized by the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI) since 2015. CIFP is a meeting place for representatives of political and expert circles from Indonesia and the world. 

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🇨🇳 For development, the world needs an image of the future, and now this image of a convenient and comfortable future for all of humanity is emerging in the interaction of the countries of the Global South: those countries that in Russia we call the world majority.

China’s global initiative to create a community of “shared destiny for humanity” is an extremely important element of the emerging future world structure, Andrey Bystritsky, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, told guests at the opening of the 8th Annual “Understanding China” Conference in Guangzhou on December 3. The title of the conference is “Carry Through the Reform to the End: Chinese Modernisation and New Opportunities for World Development”.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/andrey-bystritskiy-speaks-at-the-opening-of-the-understanding-china-conference/

📍 The 8th Understanding China Annual Conference, organised by the China Institute of Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS), the China People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) and the Guangdong Provincial Government, is being held from December 2 to 4 in Beijing and Guangzhou, bringing together global experts from China, Russia, Ethiopia, the United States, Austria, Pakistan and other countries.

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🌏 Looking Forward to ASEAN-BRICS Synergy: Southeast Asia in a Multipolar World

The 15th Asian Conference of the Valdai Club was held in Kuala Lumpur on December 9-10, 2024. The event was organized in partnership with the Bait Al-Amanah Foundation (Malaysia), the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan) and the Institute for Strategic Analysis and Policy Research (INSAP, Malaysia). It was attended by over 100 experts, including high-ranking guests – Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato’ Seri Utama Haji Mohamad Bin Haji Hasan and Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko.

The conference took place amidst Malaysia’s preparations for its upcoming ASEAN chairmanship starting on January 1, 2025, and its official partnership with BRICS since October of this year. These events largely set the framework for the discussions.

🗣 Read the 15th Asian Conference summery

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