The Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) looks back on 10 successful years in cooperation with its leading partners. This phase concluded on 31 December 2024. Since then, GDL members have maintained the momentum and impact, while looking for new operational partners. During this search, the GDL moves forward, operating transitionally as a pro bono network through the dedication of its active members and constituents. This website has been transformed into a digital archive, ensuring that GDL’s valuable work, including information on its members, partners, and activities remains accessible. The Elected Advisory Council (EAC), representing the GDL community, is available via: eac@global-diplomacy-lab.org
The Global Diplomacy Lab is a platform where experts from various fields explore new forms of diplomacy together to address the complex and often intersecting challenges we face today. Based on mutual trust and common interests, this platform enables stakeholders to develop and re-formulate agendas on complex issues for collective action and individual, institutional and policy levels.
“Good communication,
mutual interest,
enriching exchanges.”
Labs
GDL Lab: Peace Room for Collective Action
The GDL Lab “Peace Room for Collective Action” in Kigali and Lake Muhazi, Rwanda, focused on learning from diplomatic strategies to mitigate and resolve ongoing conflicts across the globe. From 3–7 November, GDL Members from 13 different countries explored past, present, and future conflicts to identify common causes and resolutions.
Activities
Bled Strategic Forum 2025 – GDL Inclusive Diplomacy Lounge
The Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) convened a three-part Inclusive Diplomacy Lounge during the Bled Strategic Forum 2025 to explore how diplomacy must evolve amid social fragmentation, digital disruption, and growing trust deficits.
What should diplomacy look like in the future?
Which competences do we need in order to better identify our scope of action?
These are only some of the questions that the GDL, together with its strategic partners – the Federal Foreign Offices of Germany and Slovenia, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the German-American Fulbright Commission and iac Berlin – is eager to investigate together with its outstanding members from five continents.
“Looking at the world through others’ eyes”