Negotiation Simulations developed or adapted by DiplomacyDialogue, CSEND, Geneva, 1985- present

Seminar on GATS/Tourism and Creative Industries

The objective of this seminar was to inform a group of 60 students from the University of Basle the general framework and challenges in developing Creative Industries and related Tourism sector in the context of the GATS.

Kosovo Study Programme “Regional Trade: Principles and Practices”

The purpose of this Programme for Kosovo representatives was to attend a study week in Geneva between the 16th to the 21st May 2010. Diplomacy Dialogue has arranged a week of modules and dialogue sessions with approximately 20 international trade representatives, officials and trade specialists. The objective of the Programme was to understand the legal and economic aspects of trade particularly with respect to regional trade principals and practices.

A two day seminar was organised for the Institute of Sociology, Basle University in Geneve, January 2008.  This seminar  includied both presentations and visits at different international organisations dealing with poverty, development and conflict issues and a simulated role play exercise on the negotiation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan beween  national government ministries, social […]

CSEND prepared a background paper for a policy seminar on “Designing a Strategy to Improve the Functioning of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol”, organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. The title of the CSEND paper was “Hype or Reality: Can the CDM trigger FDI?, Brussels, October 2005. […]

CSEND co-conducted an interdisciplinary study from 2002-2004 on resolution of environmental conflicts titled “Governing the Use of Landscape and Habitats in Alpine Areas: Negotiations as a Means to co-ordinate Stakeholder Interests” together with colleagues form the University of Basle. The study was part of the Swiss National Science Foundation programme Nr. 48. Results of the […]

CSEND wrote a background paper for the meeting of the Educational Contact Group held at WTO in Geneva and participated in the meeting as educational expert and member of the Swiss delegation. The title of the paper was “Trade in Educational Services and the Doha WTO Round: the Need to Move out of Current Impasse” […]

CSEND worked on a USAID-sponsored policy project for Booz Allen Hamilton. The goal of the study was to identify success factors of the Integrated Framework (IF), a WTO instrument targeted to support Least Developed Country’s supply-side deficiencies. Structured interviews were conducted with officials of the Geneva-based IF agencies namely WTO, UNCTAD, UNDP and ITC. Policy […]

CSEND conducted in-depth research on how to best include employment and decent work agenda into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), the successor instrument of the failed Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) devised and imposed  on heavily indebted countries by the IMF and the World Bank. CSEND drafted a major document titled “Decent Work and Poverty […]

CSEND gave two policy presentations entitled “Economic Growth, National Competitiveness and Education” (Raymond Saner) and “Continuous Learning: Key Driver for Social and Economic Development” (Lichia Yiu) at an international conference on “Governance and Education for Sustainable Development and European Integration” organized by OECD, Paris for government officials of Central and South-Eastern European countries. The conference […]