GenSouth 2024 is a unique opportunity for active and young professionals from think tanks in Global South countries to join in the vibrant heart of International Geneva. This programme, promoted by foraus and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, engages participants to lead insightful discussions and give their perspective on the multilateral universal system. Providing a platform for meaningful collaboration, GenSouth 2024 aims to generate concrete policy ideas and recommendations that will serve as a compass for the development of multilateralism.
2-3 December 2024, in-person attendance in Geneva, Switzerland
Context
The development of joint responses to global solutions needs a result-oriented multilateralism. Multilateralism, however, is under pressure and new momentums as well as reforms are necessary for it to deliver.
Also concerned with the current functioning of the UN, Global South countries’ perspectives on multilateralism are generally not well-known in global fora – calls to reform the UNSC P5 set aside. Given the deadlock on this latter issue, the formulation of other policy recommendations reflecting Global South perspectives and realities–featuring concrete use cases and tried-and-tested good practices would be a much-needed contribution to the current policy debates on the future of multilateralism. Such an output, elaborated within International Geneva, would also help reduce the gap between those countries and the current multilateral system, therefore serving multilateralism interests and values.
Project Description
GenSouth is a programme selecting about 15 academics and think tank researchers from developing countries between the ages 20-35 to exchange on the multilateralism of the future. The event is organised in Geneva by foraus with the support of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
The programme has three goals:
- To connect thought leaders, establish trust among them, and support them in building a long-lasting network
- To provide a space to sketch out and put forward proposals for the multilateralism of the future, entirely from a Global South perspective
- To create new partnership opportunities amongst Global South experts and stakeholders of the International Geneva.
The conference will produce a comprehensive Policy Brief comprising concrete policy ideas and recommendations written by the participants. These proposals will advocate from a Global South perspective. The publication and dissemination of the report will take place in the first quarter of 2025.
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