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Club de Madrid participates in conversation with UN Quaker Office on preventing violent conflicts

Launched in Washington D.C at the 2018 World Bank Fragility Forum, the report is the first joint study between the UN and the World Bank.

Four female world leaders call to action towards gender equaility on #IWD2018

Our President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, (Latvia), and Members Joyce Banda (Malawi) and Kim Campbell (Canada) Helen Clark (New Zealand), are four women that have led their countries and are still playing a relevant role in the international sphere. On the occasion of the...

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on Women’s Day: “Dear girls & women: follow fearlessly the path that each of you have chosen as your own!”

Message from Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on the occasion of the Women's International Day On this 8 March, the official Women's day adopted by the United Nations, I send my warmest greetings of universal sisterhood to girls and women across the world. I celebrate the...

Club de Madrid Members Kok and Lagumdzija advocate for inclusive societies in London and Oxford

Wim Kok - former PM of the Netherlands - and Zlatko Lagumdzija- former PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina - recently led a mission to London and Oxford as part of the project Shared Societies. The theme of the mission was Strategy on Environmental Sustainability and Shared...

Club de Madrid explores how political leadership can redefine migration discourse with Dominican Migration Institute

Nov 15, 2019

World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) organized a conversation together with the National Migration Institute in the Dominican Republic (INM-RD) to share the work of this institution in the Dominican Republic, which focuses on emphasizing the challenges that political leaders and the...

Taking Stock of Democracy – 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Oct 28, 2019

World Leadership Alliance– Club de Madrid (WLA – CdM) hosted a roundtable entitled Taking Stock of Democracy – 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall to discuss the state of democracy today and how it shapes up to the promises and hope that came right after the fall of the Berlin Wall. "When...

Digital Transformation and the Future of Democracy: How can Artificial Intelligence drive Democratic Governance?

Oct 22, 2019

The World Leadership Alliance - Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM), a global assembly of over 110 democratic former Heads of State and Government from over 60 countries, convened its Annual Policy Dialogue in Madrid on 21-22 October 2019. Hosted in partnership with the IE School of Global and Public Affairs...

Club de Madrid Articles

Club de Madrid participates in conversation with UN Quaker Office on preventing violent conflicts

Four female world leaders call to action towards gender equaility on #IWD2018

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on Women’s Day: “Dear girls & women: follow fearlessly the path that each of you have chosen as your own!”

Club de Madrid Members Kok and Lagumdzija advocate for inclusive societies in London and Oxford

Club de Madrid explores how political leadership can redefine migration discourse with Dominican Migration Institute

Taking Stock of Democracy – 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Digital Transformation and the Future of Democracy: How can Artificial Intelligence drive Democratic Governance?

Kok and Bondevik meet with President U Thein Sein of Myanmar

A shared society is an enabling society: UN Commision for Social Development

“An integrated MENA region must be an EU priority”

Member Kim Campbell to participate in a Shared Societies panel in New York

Club de Madrid to participate in a session about populism and economic challenges in democratic transitions

Census: Political Aid or Hindrance in Post-Conflict Societies? The Afghanistan case

President Chandrika Kumaratunga: “The continued existence of inequality gives rise to terrorism”

LEND Network supports efforts to build democracy in Tunisia

The Shared Societies Project Blog: Encouraging Pluralism in Diverse Society

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