COVID-19 has cast a spotlight on the difficulty faced by democracies around the world to deliver and meet the needs of large segments of their population – to protect their health, their livelihood, and their fundamental rights through an effective, balanced and fair response to the pandemic. This...
Policy success through anticipation: How to build a democratic culture of emergency preparedness?
While democracies are frequently put to test, having to remain adaptable to new contexts, innovations and challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic entailed a unique defiance to their resilience and capacity for renewal. The sudden global health crisis sent shock waves across every aspect of daily lives,...
Live Session: A renewed multilateral system- Towards positive and inclusive peace
International Peace and Security remains one of the foremost global challenges of our time. As the world juggles intractable problems from climate change to deep societal cleavages…
Extremism and violence hit Tunisia, France and Kuwait.
Months after the attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Bardo Museum that shocked the world,...
Club de Madrid Member, Jorge Sampaio, Laureate of the Nelson Mandela Prize 2015
Club de Madrid Member Jorge Sampaio has been chosen by the United Nations committee as one of the two laureates of the...
‘Sharing the burden-Sharing the benefits’, Club de Madrid call to the Addis Ababa Financing for Development Summit
SHARING THE BURDEN – SHARING THE BENEFITS An open letter to the Financing for Development Summit 22 June 2015 The...
2015 Global Peace Index
The highlights of the report show five key factors and changes in the world: · Since last year, 81 countries have...
Jorge Quiroga and Andrés Pastrana pledges Leopoldo López to halt his hunger strike
Querido y admirado Leopoldo: Hoy 13 de junio la mujer que te trajo al mundo, que te amamantó y crío, que siempre...
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, meets Habid Essid, PM of Tunisia, as part of a Shared Societies Project mission
The objective of the conference was analyzing the conditions for the success of the processes of decentralization in a...
Han Seung-soo and Boris Tadic lead a mission on Decentralisation and Economic Development for Peace in Myanmar
Han Seung-soo, former Prime Minister of South Korea and, Boris Tadic, former President of Serbia, led the Second...
“Crisis or Transformation?” NGD Regional Roundtable in Stockholm
The “Wider Europe and Post-Soviet Eurasia Roundtable” was held in Stockholm, June 2-3 organized by Club de Madrid in...
Nineteen Haitian political parties attend a Club de Madrid/EU workshop on electoral manifestos and political communication lead by Sebastián Piñera and Andrés Pastrana
Since January 2014, with the support of the European Union, the Club de Madrid has engaged through dialogue with...


