2025: What Held, What Shifted, and What’s Coming?

This closing session unpacks the inflection points of 2025 - what endured, what unravelled, and what transformed. As the world recalibrates across geopolitics, geoeconomics, and global governance, we look ahead to the trends, tensions, and turning points that will shape 2026.

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Envisioning Peace in the South Caucasus | Yerevan Dialogue Reflections:

The Yerevan Dialogue 2025 forum will be held on May 26-27, 2025 in Yerevan, Armenia | The inaugural edition of the Yerevan Dialogue, held last year, proved to be a valuable, inclusive and effective platform for addressing the key challenges of our time.

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India’s Defence & AI: Innovation Amid Global Competition | National Security Dialogue:

Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have become increasingly pivotal to modernisation efforts by militaries around the world. Despite significant allocations for capital acquisition, modernisation, and R&D for emerging technologies like AI in the defence budget, India faces stiff competition from other military powers like the United States, Russia, and China who continue to invest heavily in this space.

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Recalibrating India-Africa Space Ties:
The Indian space community did not find representation at the ceremony. This absence indicates that India’s space diplomacy with the AU is still finding its footing. The values underlying the foundation of the India-AU relations were articulated in the ‘Ten Guiding Principles for India-Africa Engagement’ announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018 in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.

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Augmenting Open Transaction Network (OTNs) with AI:-

The global community is at a critical inflection point marked by the simultaneous emergence of two distinct transformative technological paradigms: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). Their convergence presents a unique opportunity to catalyse unprecedented, non-linear growth across countries.

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