PIN Conference 2023: Identity Conflicts in a fragmented World Order

The Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program has moved from the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) to the Geneva Centre for Security Studies (GCSP) in coordination with the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) in Abu Dhabi. In May 2023, PIN was hosted by the AGDA for a conference, and meetings with the directors of the AGDA and GCSP and their staff. Drawing on current as well as past transformations, the conference focused on three main subjects: 1. Identity Conflicts in a fragmented World Order; 2. Africa: Reframing Negotiation; 3. China’s New Mediation Role. The conference will result in a PIN book, entitled "Negotiating Identity Complexities in a Fragmenting World Order", in which contributors explore the concept of identity as a force for systemic coherence and fracture across a range of scenarios, and the usefulness of negotiation as a means of managing change and regulating and resolving tensions that arise in processes of change.