Bringing science into multilateral diplomacy
Established in 2021 by ETH Zurich and UNIGE, the Science in Diplomacy Lab brings scientific insights and methods into diplomatic, international conflict resolution and help address the global challenges our societies are facing.
The Lab for Science in Diplomacy (SiDLab) emanates from the joint realization by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the ETH Zürich (ETHZ) that addressing most global mega-challenges (think next pandemic, climate change, and international security) requires cooperation and innovative governance while dealing with the rising complexity of diplomatic negotiations in a multipolar world. Current global challenges are not only difficult to address by themselves, but they also exacerbate a few other issues resulting in heightened geopolitical risks.
SiDLab session on AI and computational diplomacy at the AI2S2 AI conference in Geneva on 15 September 2023
The AI2S2 Symposium is designed to facilitate knowledge transfer on Artificial Intelligence between industry, science, and society. The 3rd edition was organized by the university of Geneva and held and the Campus Biotech from [...]
Session on computational diplomacy at the International Conference on Computational Science, Prague July 2023
Mermbers of the SiDLab co-organised and contributed to a session on computational diplomacy at the International Conference on Computational Science in Prague in July 2023. Web Address: https://codip.github.io/ Contacts: Michael Lees, University of Amsterdam, The [...]
Counting the Costs of US-China Technology Decoupling
The global implications of the US-China competition over technology including advanced semiconductors would be better understood if policymakers, diplomats and other players in the unfolding quarrel used big-data analytics and artificial intelligence to study [...]
Computational Diplomacy – The Science of an Art?
Vast troves of historical data exist on negotiations and responses and agreements. The trick is a means to read it. Digital disinformation, cyberwarfare and AI-driven military campaigns have changed the face of geopolitics and [...]
Launch Workshop on Computational Diplomacy: From the modeling of social behaviour to computational diplomacy
To determine the contours of this new discipline of computational diplomacy, a workshop was organized in Crans-Montana from August 28 to 31, 2022. Co-organized by Prof. Bastien Chopard (UNIGE), Prof. Dirk Elbing (ETHZ) and [...]
Science and Diplomacy Week: Participation to the first Science and Diplomacy Week hosted by GESDA 16-20 May 2022
The transmission of knowledge developed within the framework of constitutional diplomacy is at the heart of SiDlab's mission. In this context, SiDlab played an active role in the first Science and Diplomacy week. This [...]
From the modeling of social behavior to computational diplomacy
Abstract: Computational sciences offer an unprecedented way to describe, analyze and understand a vast body of new problems and offers new scientific opportunities. Mathematics is often considered as the “grammar of sciences”. Modern computational [...]
Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in computational diplomacy: A multi-layered network approach to improve our understanding of institutional complexity and effective governance design
Abstract:While the study of global governance is moving from a focus on component-dominated to interaction-dominated systems, the present paper reviews development in governance theories from a complexity perspective and discuss how governance systems can be [...]
Emergent patterns in global health diplomacy: a network analysis of the resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 2022
Abstract: From a complexity perspective on governance, multilateral diplomacy is based on interactions between people, ideas, norms, policies and institutions. This article uses a computer-assisted methodology to better understand governance systems as a network [...]