The Wilson Center's Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition and the Boston Global Forum launch the Indo-Pacific Spark Club, a prestigious network of business leaders from across the Indo-Pacific region. This club is dedicated to fostering a peaceful, secure, and...
Crystalizing oncoming crises: Four Pillars week
In this week’s Four Pillars, we will look at the two fronts of concerns for the Four Pillars – Europe, particularly Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific Russia, Ukraine, and related updates: US will send $1.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine [ABC News] Russia is relying on...
“Laurel for Peace and Security in Ukraine” Initiative
March 4, 2022 Boston, MA - The Boston Global Forum (BGF), Michael Dukakis Institute (MDI), and Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) stand by the autonomy, peace, and security of Ukraine, and condemn Russia’s senseless and destructive assault on Ukraine’s...
An urgent call for actions to build a new international rules and instruments for world peace and security
The world is in danger with the risk of wars threatening the peace and security of humankind in the 21st century. We urge the world community to respond to the current crisis by developing binding new international rules and instruments to safeguard the rights,...
Co-founder of AIWS City and co-chair of NGIC, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga – “On Russia invading Ukraine”
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga February 24, 2022 Our worst fears have become reality and every faint hope for peace we might still have had has been brutally dashed at 5 am on 24 Wednesday 2022. Ukraine, an independent, sovereign nation, long encircled by enemy troops,...
Press statement by World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2020 recipient, President von der Leyen, on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine
24 February 2022 Early this morning, Russian troops invaded Ukraine, a free and sovereign country. Once again, in the centre of Europe, innocent women, men and children are dying or fear for their lives. We condemn this barbaric attack, and the cynical arguments to...
Digital Treasure of AIWS City: AIWS at Club de Madrid Policy Dialog 2019 “Digital Transformation and the Future of Democracy”
At the Policy Dialog 2019 “Digital Transformation and the Future of Democracy organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid”, Boston Global Forum organized a ceremony to present the World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2019 to President of Club de Madrid,...
Judea Pearl Wins 2021 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Judea Pearl is the recipient of the fourteenth edition of the ICT Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the Spanish bank group BBVA for “providing a modern foundation to Artificial Intelligence”. The award includes a prize of €400,000 (about $457,000). Artificial...