🗣 March 4 sees the second day of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference “Valdai Club: World in 2040” as part of the World Youth Festival. It started with a workshop, titled “Mosaic Unity or Melting Pot: Is Dialogue on Values Possible at the Crossroads of Different Cultures?”

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🌐 A succession of global crises, including the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, along with various military conflicts stemming from the Cold War era, highlighted the shortcomings of a lackadaisical approach to both national and global governance. As an inevitable outcome of the setbacks faced by the liberal hegemonic world order, an increasing number of nations and populations grew disillusioned with both the hegemony and its universalist values and principles.

Our infographic shows the pivotal events that shaped contours of the current international system (1991-2023). The full infographic is available on the website.

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🗣The workshop “Technological Progress as a Challenge and an Opportunity for Civilisation” within the framework of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference.

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📷 The team of authors of the Valdai report “Charting the 2040: Younger Generation Insight on the World in the Making”, prepared for the Valdai Club’s Youth Conference.

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🗣 Good morning! Today is the third day of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference "Valdai Club: World in 2040".

📆 Programme for March 5, Tuesday

11:30 – 11:35 — Opening of the conference (live: English, Russian)
(Sirius Science and Art Park, Conference Hall "Lobachevsky" ("Dostoevsky"))

11:35 – 13:00 — Session 1. The Future of World Politics in 2040 (live: English, Russian)
(Sirius Science and Art Park, Conference Hall "Lobachevsky" ("Dostoevsky"))

At present, multipolarity in world politics is on the rise. The current configuration of the system of international relations has qualitatively new characteristics: the role of the state and international institutions is changing, and the balance of power in the world is transforming. This dynamics is stimulated by the growing number of new challenges and threats, accelerating scientific and technological progress and changes in the new generations’ value picture of the world. The session participants will make a forecast of the main dimensions of world politics in 2040, shaped by technological, economic and value factors.

13:30 – 15:00 — Session 2. Dialogue of Cultures in a Polycentric World (live: English, Russian)
(Sirius Science and Art Park, Conference Hall "Lobachevsky" ("Dostoevsky"))

The specific features of each country's policy are largely shaped by cultural and civilisational factors. Today's young generation is contributing to the transformation of the value and ideological foundations of states' strategies. The changing value picture of the world is gradually becoming an important factor in reconfiguring the landscape of world politics. In this session, the prospects for the development of a polycentric world in the context of cultural-civilisational and value-based factors will be discussed.

15:30 – 17:00 — Session 3. Technological Development as a Challenge and an Opportunity (live: English, Russian)
(Sirius Science and Art Park, Conference Hall "Lobachevsky" ("Dostoevsky"))

In today's world, there is a trend towards accelerated development of science and technology, which is becoming a key driver of the economy. Advanced technologies, on the one hand, qualitatively change the way of life; on the other hand, stimulate inequality due to differentiated access to innovative developments. Amid the growth in international tensions, there is a trend towards the formation of separate scientific and technological blocs. The aim of the session is to identify the key trends in technological development as an important factor in the system of international relations and the world economy.

17:30 – 19:30 — Open discussion "Valdai-2040: Looking Into the Future" (live: English, Russian)
(Sirius Science and Art Park, Terminal "F", "Atom" Hall)

The discussion is devoted to key megatrends in the field of world politics, world economy and scientific and technological development, value-civilisational parameters of international relations. The aim of the session is to forecast how these trends will develop and what the system of international relations and the world economy will look like in 2040.

PROGRAMME OF THE YOUTH CONFERENCE

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🎥 LIVE: at 11:30 Moscow time (GMT +3), the opening of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference "Valdai Club: World in 2040" will take place in Sochi, followed by Session 1 "The Future of World Politics in 2040".

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239176

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🎥 LIVE: at 13:30 Moscow time (GMT +3), we are starting Session 2 of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference, titled "Dialogue of Cultures in a Polycentric World".

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239177

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🎥 LIVE: at 15:30 Moscow time (GMT +3), we are starting Session 3 of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference, titled "Technological Development as a Challenge and an Opportunity».

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239178

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🗣 On March 5, the opening of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference "Valdai Club: World in 2040" took place place as part of the World Youth Festival. Session 1 "The Future of World Politics in 2040" followed the opening.

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🎥 LIVE: at 17:30 Moscow time (GMT +3), we are starting the open discussion "Valdai-2040: Looking Into the Future", within the framework of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference.

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239179

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🗣 Session 2 of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference, titled "Dialogue of Cultures in a Polycentric World".

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🗣 Session 3 of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference, titled "Technological Development as a Challenge and an Opportunity».

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🔬 Scientific progress through the global knowledge commons has afforded us the evolutionary capacity to create technological solutions to endure the challenges presented by our ecology and to secure our very survival.

But we need to recognise the combined yet uneven distribution of productive capabilities which excludes the global majority from sharing in the benefits of our collective ingenuity, writes Rasigan Maharajh, Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa).

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/science-technology-and-innovation-for-a-better/

📍This article is based on his presentation at the Valdai Club’s Youth Conference as part of the World Youth Festival.

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🗣 The first Youth Conference of the Valdai Club was completed by the open discussion "Valdai-2040: Looking Into the Future".

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