Futures for Hope in a Broken World

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Our global future looks bleak. Existential threats crowd the horizon, from climate disaster and pandemics to runaway AI and nuclear annihilation. Failing domestic politics and international diplomacy, driven by destructive power politics, are not meeting our shared global challenges. Without a change of direction we may face a future of environmental collapse, public health crises, technological dystopia, and cataclysmic war.

What might such a change of direction look like? What can we hope for? How can we shape the future instead of awaiting it passively?

From March 28-30, 2026, the Georgetown Global Dialogues (GGD) are returning to Spain to address these questions in partnership with the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
 
The convening is the fourth in a series that began in Washington, DC (April 2024), and continued in Rome (June 2025), and Barcelona (November 2025). The gathering after GGD Barcelona 2026 will take place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from October 15-17, 2026.

To learn more about GGD, visit the overview page and explore event videos, webinars, essays, and profiles of the GGD fellows.

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