GESDA News June 2025
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Radar Spotlight: Advancements in archaeology could reshape our understanding of history
Advances in science and technology are retooling archaeological methods and technologies in multiple ways, with new techniques enhancing practice and knowledge and opening pathways for rewriting the narrative of human history. Molecular techniques enable valuable data to be extracted from fragmentary remains and even from sites that lack discernible artifacts. This is shedding new light […]
Summary: Geneva Science Diplomacy Week 2025
After five days of immersive sessions at Geneva’s international institutions, the cohort became part of GESDA’s ‘extended family’ of anticipatory science diplomats and the growing number of initiatives it has created around the world. Thirty-six leaders took part in the fourth edition of GESDA’s immersive learning and networking program, more than ever before due […]
Day 5: Geneva Science Diplomacy Week 2025
On the final day, the cohort huddled at Campus Biotech, where GESDA is headquartered, for wrap-up sessions including the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals game, a keynote talk, and the awards ceremony. On the way to their ‘kizuki’ moment about how to achieve the mutual benefits and opportunities of global cooperation, participants navigated the nuances of […]
Day 4: Geneva Science Diplomacy Week 2025
On CERN Day, scientists and senior leaders explained how the world’s largest particle physics laboratory serves as a bridge between science and diplomacy. A role playing science diplomacy game introduced the work of the Open Quantum Institute, a groundbreaking initiative by GESDA and CERN. The visit to CERN, the French acronym for the European Organization […]
Day 3: Geneva Science Diplomacy Week 2025
Participants visited the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, taking a deep dive into the benefits of strategic anticipation, the subtleties of polarity thinking, and the gripping nature of the latest global and emerging risks. Spending the day with the GCSP at Geneva’s Maison de la Paix, participants focused on strategic anticipation as an action-oriented skillset. […]
Day 2: Geneva Science Diplomacy Week 2025
Focus shifted to the future governance of neurotechnology, computational diplomacy, and GESDA’s AI-augmented intelligence tool for decision-makers. Inside the wood-paneled meeting room of a newly renovated Geneva church, the cohort began the day focused on the concept that everyone has a right to benefit from scientific progress. The foundation for the human right to science […]
Day 1: Geneva Science Diplomacy Week 2025
GESDA welcomed 36 leaders to the fourth edition of its immersive learning and networking experience at International Geneva. Inside the UN’s Palais des Nations, Daria Robinson greeted the new cohort and explained how Swiss and Geneva authorities created GESDA as a foundation in 2019 to launch anticipatory science diplomacy initiatives based in the city that […]
Radar Spotlight: Living in space will require mining, manufacturing, and peacekeeping
In our emerging orbital environment, we will need to develop a greater understanding of the implications of human activities in space and their impacts on Earth and beyond. Humans already depend on off-world resources. Almost all of our energy ultimately comes from the Sun, and we are protected from dangerous radiation by the magnetosphere that […]
GESDA News May 2025
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