The Global Diplomacy Lab is a platform where experts from various fields explore new forms of diplomacy together to address the complex and often intersecting challenges we face today. Based on mutual trust and common interests, this platform enables stakeholders to develop and re-formulate agendas on complex issues for collective action and individual, institutional and policy levels.
“Good communication,
mutual interest,
enriching exchanges.”
Labs
Youth Lab: Empowering Youth through Intersectional Conflict Mediation with a Focus on Religion
Together with the City of Osnabrück the GDL commemorates the 375th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia by bringing tools for intersectional conflict mediation to 50 international youth leaders.
Activities
Rethinking Global Partnerships: Navigating in Multipolar Contexts
The GDL is advancing its project, commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office, focused on strengthening Germany’s bilateral relations with Colombia, Kenya, and Morocco. Following a productive Kick-Off Meeting in September, we are now in the next phase. Click here for more information.
Blog
When Men become Victims
Men also experience stalking and intimate partner violence. But there are hardly any counseling centers and shelters specifically for male survivors in Germany. In her recent documentary for SWR Vollbild, Global Diplomacy Lab Member Sonja Peteranderl sheds light on the problem.
What should diplomacy look like in the future?
Which competences do we need in order to better identify our scope of action?
These are only some of the questions that the GDL, together with its strategic partners – the Federal Foreign Offices of Germany and Slovenia, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the German-American Fulbright Commission and iac Berlin – is eager to investigate together with its outstanding members from five continents.
“Looking at the world through others’ eyes”