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Raisina Dialogue, 2020

The Raisina Dialogue is India's biggest geopolitical & geoeconomics forum, dedicated to tackling the world's most pressing challenges. Every year, leaders from politics, industry, the media, & civil society gather in New Delhi to examine the status of the world and seek the potential for collaboration on a variety of current issues.

The Raisina Dialogue is an annual international meeting held in New Delhi, India. Since its debut in 2016, this conference has established itself as India’s premier geopolitical & geoeconomics event. The Observer Research Center, an unbiased think tank, is hosting the conference in partnership with India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

The conference is set up as just a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral conversation, with heads of state, cabinet ministers, & local government officials among the participants. The Dialogue additionally welcomes senior executives from the commercial sector, as well as representatives of the media & academics. It is modelled after the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. 

Raisina Dialogue, 2020 

4 July 2020

In New Delhi, the 5th version of Raisina Dialogue, India’s premier worldwide conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, took place. The term “Raisina Dialogue” derives from the Raisina Hill, a hill in New Delhi that houses the Indian government’s headquarters as well as the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the country’s presidential home.

This year’s conversation is titled “Navigation in the Alpha Century.”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as the Observer Research Center collaborated on the event.

A discussion on the Indo-Pacific was held, with military and naval leaders from the Quadrilateral (Australian, India, Japanese, as well as the United States) in attendance, as well as a French Defense official.

It’s a multinational gathering dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing problems.

Every year, world leaders in politics, industry, and the media convene for the World Economic Forum in Davos. New Delhi hosts a meeting of civil society and government officials. On a wide variety of important international issues, collaboration is possible. It’s all about policy. The Dialogue has a multi-stakeholder framework. heads of state inside cross-sectoral dialogue cabinet ministers & officials from local governments, among others Members of Congress, and also top private-sector executives, The academic community, and the media.

Other Raisina Dialogue

  • 2016 Raisina Dialogue

Ms Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs, during Raisina 2016.

The inaugural Raisina Dialogue took place between March 1 and 3, 2016. The subject of “Asia: Regional & Global Connectivity” drew over Hundred participants from over 35 nations. The physical, economic, human, & digital connection of Asia was the theme of the 2016 conference. Panels and conversations focused on the region’s common space management potential and challenges, and also the global collaborations required to establish shared pathways in the twenty-first century.

  • 2018 Raisina Dialogue

The Raisina Dialogue was conducted for the third time in the Taj Administrative Complex in New Delhi, India, on January 16–18, 2018.

“Managing Disruptive Transitions: Ideas, Institutions, and Idioms” is the subject of the 2018 Conference. This subject aims to investigate the changing dynamics of the global order, where old ties require new orientations, burgeoning alliances confront enormous challenges, and power & sovereignty are questioned. The Dialogue will promote debate on the role for institutions, the possibilities of collective action, and effective solutions to these contemporary events.

  • 2019 Raisina Dialogue

From January 8–10, 2019, The Raisina Dialogue hosted its fourth edition only at Taj Diplomatic Complex in New Delhi, India.

“New Geometrical patterns | Fluid Relationships | Uncertain Consequences” was the conference’s topic. The subject is a natural extension of the previous edition’s theme, which was Managing Interruptions & Transitions. Then-External Affair Minister Smt. Sushma Swaraj states in her comments, “”A Globe Reorder” is a relevant and urgent topic even as the world finds answers to the continuously shifting political, economic, & strategic environment. I’m hoping that the conversations will encourage open and honest debate about the current geopolitical reorganisation and guide us in the direction of new and inventive solutions “.

The meeting was held in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs. 

Conclusion

The Raisina Dialogue produces a series of articles each year to keep the conversation about the conference’s topics and highlights going. The Raisina Files, a collection of observations written by high-profile speakers & delegates, is one of these publications.

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