Abu Dhabi recently hosted over 100 policy-makers and scholars from 20 countries of the Global South in the first Global South Economic Forum. Organised by the UAE’s premier institution for grooming diplomats in International Relations, the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, the Forum witnessed collaboration with the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies, and the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, as well as institutes affiliated to Tsinghua University. Deliberations revolved around the raging conflicts in the Middle East and the need for regional peace, the gap in climate finance, and data sovereignty.

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