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Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis presided over the UN Security Council’s Open Debate on “Futureproofing trust for sustaining peace”: Science and new technologies offer us opportunities to better anticipate and understand the risks of today and the opportunities of tomorrow. We must respond to the challenges of the 21st century with 21st century solutions.

Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA: bit.ly/3nyxNVL

Associated Press: https://news.yahoo.com/un-worlds-divided-nations-agree-210729567.html

Swissinfo: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/swiss-foreign-minister-chairs-un-security-council-for-first-time/48485380

Watson: https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/international/304586013-cassis-ruft-als-uno-sicherheitsrats-praesident-zu-vertrauen-auf

Arete News: https://www.aretenews.com/swiss-promote-science-diplomacy-at-un/

UN meeting coverage: https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15273.doc.htm

The UN Security Council debated how trust can be built for sustainable peace. Swiss Ambassador Alexandre Fasel explains how science-based diplomacy will make the difference.

Fasel: https://twitter.com/i/status/1653731226371387395

Radar: https://radar.gesda.global/events/anticipating-the-future-of-peace-and-war-inaugural-workshop

Switzerland must reinvent itself in terms of foreign policy. Its traditional policy of good offices is no longer sufficient. It must turn more towards Geneva’s international traditions, which can become, thanks to organizations like GESDA, a capital of digital and scientific diplomacy.

NZZ: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/die-schweiz-muss-die-guten-dienste-neu-erfinden-ld.1734251?reduced=true

Le Temps: https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/chroniques/conseil-federal-mauvaise-presse

Can we anticipate conflicts and possibly avoid them by using new technologies? This is the question asked by researchers from around the world at a gathering in Geneva led by GESDA, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Columbia University.

Barrons: https://www.barrons.com/news/the-researchers-aiming-to-foresee-and-prevent-war-7a84fa9d

Epoch Times with AFP: https://m.epochtimes.fr/anticiper-le-futur-de-la-paix-et-de-la-guerre-2294966.html/amp

GESDA, along with three students from Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich, participated in the 11th Quantum Hackathon of the New York University Abu Dhabi, with which GESDA has signed a longterm cooperation agreement.

UAE Times: https://uaetimes.ae/nyu-abu-dhabi-arab-world-social-good-hackathon-inspires-new-solutions-to-sustainability-challenges/

Gulf News: https://gulfnews.com/uae/look-who-won-in-the-nyuad-hackathon-for-quantum-computing-solutions-1.95512705

Blick: https://www.blick.ch/ausland/hacken-um-die-welt-zu-retten-schweizer-studenten-raeumen-in-abu-dhabi-ab-id18552899.html

Léman Bleu: https://www.lemanbleu.ch/fr/Actualite/International/De-la-Suisse-a-Abu-Dhabi-l-aventure-quantique-d-Elena.html

SpaceX Starship: The launch of the biggest-ever rocket ended with an explosion. The SpaceX rocket, which made it partially through its first full test, eventually could change the trajectory of astrophysics and astronomy and ferry people to the Moon and Mars. What’s next for the rocket:

Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01377-3

Space.com: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-test-whats-next

Radar dot: https://radar.gesda.global/topics/space-resources

Deep brain stimulation is helping patients with severe depression who have tried at least four medications, neurologist Helen Mayberg says in a Nature podcast episode. 

Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01375-5

Radar dot: https://radar.gesda.global/topics/cognitive-enhancement

Opinion: Wearable brain devices will challenge our mental privacy. Our brains, a last bastion of privacy, have remained inviolate, even as sensors now record our heartbeats, breathing, steps and sleep. All that is about to change, says Nita A. Farahany.

Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wearable-brain-devices-will-challenge-our-mental-privacy/