The Cadario Visiting Lecture In Public Policy: A World Without War: Utopian Dream or Pragmatic Necessity?

We live in the most dangerous epoch in the history of human civilization. With the fires spreading in Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa, and East Asia, and an escalating arms race in killer robots, hypersonic missiles, and deadly pathogens, is the world sleep walking into a global catastrophic war that will annihilate human race? Sundeep Waslekar will propose a global social contract, a blueprint for multilateral reform, and a framework for reorienting global governance which will enable a paradigm shift to make lasting peace a reality.

 

 

 

Sundeep Waslekar is a thought leader on the global future. He has worked with sixty-five countries under the auspices of the Strategic Foresight Group, an international think tank he founded in 2002. He is the author of A World without War published by HarperCollins India (2022) and published in French as Entre Guerre et Paix by CNRS Editions (2023). He is also the author of Eka Dishecha Shodh, a bestselling book in his native Marathi language, with 25 editions.

 

He is a practitioner of Track Two diplomacy since the 1990s and has mediated in conflicts in South Asia, those between Western and Islamic countries on deconstructing terror, trans-boundary water conflicts, and nuclear risk reduction between permanent members of the UN Security Council. He was invited to address the United Nations Security Council session 7818 on water, peace, and security. He has been quoted in more than 3,000 media articles from eighty countries.