Global Dialogues

Futures for Hope in a Broken World

Doha, March 28-30, 2026

Our global future looks bleak. Existential threats crowd the horizon, from climate disaster and pandemics to runaway AI and nuclear annihilation. Failing domestic politics and international diplomacy, driven by destructive power politics, are not meeting our shared global challenges. Without a change of direction we may face a future of environmental collapse, public health crises, technological dystopia, and cataclysmic war.

What might such a change of direction look like? What can we hope for? How can we shape the future instead of awaiting it passively?

From March 28-30, 2026, the Georgetown Global Dialogues (GGD) in Doha, Qatar are bringing leading writers and thinkers together with university students and a wider public for conversations around these questions.

• Learn more about the eight featured conversations below. 
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• Read more about the GGD themes for 2026.

The convening, hosted by Georgetown University in Qatar, is the fourth in a series that began in Washington, DC (April 2024), and continued in Rome (June 2025), and Barcelona (November 2025). The gathering after GGD Doha will take place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from October 15-17, 2026. To learn more about GGD, visit the overview page and explore event videos, webinars, essays, and profiles of the GGD fellows.