Transcend: Transnational Challenges and Emerging Nations Dialogue

Major Themes of TRANSCEND:

• Concepts and Approaches: Ideas and approaches to global and transnational governance.
• Human Insecurity and Non-Traditional Threats: The nature and impact of transnational threats, e.g. climate change, financial crises, pandemics, human trafficking etc., and responding to them with the help of emerging nations.
• Multilateralism and Diffusion of Power: The role of emerging forums, especially the G-20, and how they reshape North-South relations.
• Governing Regional Worlds: The role of regional institutions in the management of transnational issues.
• Ideas and the Unity of Civilizations: History tells us that civilizations do not necessarily clash, but learn and benefit from each other. How to translate these lessons into concrete policy tools to arrest the perceptions of a clash of civilizations? TRANSCEND is based at the School of International Service (SIS) at American University, Washington, D.C., one of the most internationally-oriented among American schools of international studies. Its location in the US capital facilitates networking with both developed and developing countries as well as with key multilateral institutions.