Projects Archive
Since its inception, CIGI has undertaken a range of projects aligned with its mandate and objectives. Its research program has grown and evolved into new areas and new projects. Projects that have concluded are listed alphabetically.
The purpose of this project was to develop a blueprint for an Energy Partnership for the Americas which goes beyond bilateral agreements and adopts a regional approach towards sustainable growth and clean energy. This blueprint document explored and defined pathways for delivering solutions to many issues
A highly successful conference in December 2008 brought key thinkers around the table to discuss the global food price crisis. The discussion focused on the rapidly changing global food and agriculture landscape, and the important implications for food security in the world’s poorest countries, the global environment, and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture.
The aim of the project is to examine, advocate and support mobilization for a Leaders' Summit and preparatory process with inclusive representation to enable the creation of effective 'bargains' or 'package deals' to resolve global challenges. It investigates the merits of enlarging the G8 to break global deadlocks on issues that cannot be resolved through other mechanisms. CIGI's research on summit reform is a joint initiative with the Centre for Global Studies with substantive and financial support of IDRC.
This project is focused on analyzing the extent and implications of the anticipated power shift toward the BRICSAM (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, ASEAN states, Mexico) countries and how these countries will shape global economic governance in this period of global economic transformation.
The Secretary-General’s Report of August 2005 underlined the need for a more coherent institutional framework of international legal governance, with better coordination and monitoring. The Building the Rule of Law in International Affairs project seeks to further those aims by finding solutions to overcoming difficulties associated with developing and operationalizing an international rule of law.
This project analyzed issues of importance to Canada in terms of its foreign and security policies, particularly in the context of the post-9/11 era.
CIGI is undertaking a fresh examination of the way in which the Caribbean region could meet these economic challenges. The project convenes researchers and private and public sector leaders to examine and provide substantive and relevant answers and policy prescription to current economic governance challenges.
The second phase of the Young China Scholars Poverty and Inequality Network, co-sponsored by the International Development Research Centre and CIGI, aims to identify and support a new generation of young researchers in China, focused on China's policy options following the global financial crisis and the economic recession.
CIGI’s contacts with Chinese scholars and think tanks go back many years, but were first formalized in January 2006. The China Program focuses both on China’s growing role and profile in the global economy, and on the implications of Chinese integration into the global economy. In the process, it seeks to both provide a greater understanding of developments in China and contribute to internal policy debate within China.
CIGI's research on complex diplomacy works to foster dialogue on a range of topics, including the links between governance and diplomacy; the nature of public diplomacy vs. advocacy; the impact of ‘celebrity diplomacy’; and recent changes to the practice of state-based diplomacy.
