The world has witnessed great advances and achievements in development arising from strategic cooperations between the superpowers, multilateral organisations and countries across the world. While the emergence of prominent intergovernmental organisations have brought about great progress for human development among developing economies, more needs to be done urgently to go beyond divisive geopolitics to tackle the impending existential challenges facing mankind today.

This panel will explore the lessons that have emerged from international development efforts and suggest new approaches required to bring about stability and prosperity.

As the world emerges from a pandemic and as the global population hits the 8 billion mark, the most pressing existential threats to humanity remain: growing poverty and inequality, climate change and food insecurity. The level of international cooperation around these matters in the next 50 years will shape the future of humanity and will depend on the ability of nations to attain prosperity via sustainable development through preserving stability and peace.

This panel will discuss the context of these existential threats and what stability would look like in today’s context to deliver on the challenges of our times.