CIGI Collaborative Research Awards: This competition for boundary-spanning research on international governance is now closed. A second round is planned for Winter 2013. To learn more about the initial round click here.
Global Economy Addressing the need for sustainable and balanced economic growth, the Global Economy program is a central area of CIGI expertise. Its importance was heightened by the global financial crisis at the end of the last decade which gave impetus to the formation of the G20 leaders’ summits — a development for which CIGI experts had advocated.
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In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the need for economic cooperation among major powers is more urgent than ever. This topic will be explored through two papers written by CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Paul Blustein: "A Flop and a Debacle: Inside the IMF's Global Rebalancing Acts" and "How Global Watchdogs Missed a World of Trouble."
These two projects on China and the World Economy are supported by The Centre for International Governance Innovation, and respectively by the Ontario Research Fund of The Provincial Government of Ontario, and the International Development Research Centre.
| Environment and Energy Planet Earth faces severe and growing stresses as a result of human development and consumption. The Environment and Energy program at CIGI focuses on governance issues related to climate change, geoengineering (from a governance perspective), sustainable economics, alternative energy, and agriculture and food security.
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In August 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the UN High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability to formulate a new blueprint for sustainable growth. The panel was tasked with exploring different approaches to effectively tackle hunger, inequality and the deterioration of the natural environment.
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Concepts for intentionally modifying our global climate — known as geoengineering — are rapidly emerging into the scientific and policy discussions surrounding climate change. This project focuses on the international governance framework for the various geoengineering modalities being proposed across the globe.
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Global Security Since humans first began to deploy weaponry in inter-tribal warfare, our greatest danger has been, collectively, from ourselves — and at no time has the risk been greater than in the modern age, with its weapons of mass destruction. CIGI’s Global Security program focuses on a range of issues in peace, conflict and security, including nuclear-energy governance.
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Strengthening and Reform of the International Atomic Energy Agency seeks to capitalize on the success of the Nuclear Energy Futures project by advancing ideas contained in the project report "The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030 and its Implications for Global Governance."
This project examines the continued relevance of the United Nations (UN), as well as the use of the UN as the universal forum of choice for the international community to debate and manage global governance issues. This line of inquiry leads to the ultimate question of whether the UN can evolve with the times.
| Global Development CIGI's Development Program focuses on "global development," which emphasizes the importance of systemic coherence and shared responsibility for overcoming global and international challenges to equitable growth and sustainable development.
Latest ActivitiesThe research focuses on the role of China and the BRICS in promoting global governance reforms. Research will concentrate on patterns of international cooperation between the rising states and other emerging countries, China's evolving role in global governance and shifts in the global order, and regional economic and security arrangements in Asia and around the world.
This program area supports research initiatives and policy networking to rethink the global development architecture, in response to fundamental shifts in the global system. The focus is on identifying and promoting institutional innovation to provide more effective, efficient and equitable delivery of global public goods, at the global and regional levels.
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