Key Highlights
- The 10th Raisina Dialogue will be held in New Delhi from 17‑19 March 2025, gathering delegates from roughly 125 nations.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open the event, while New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will serve as chief guest and deliver the keynote address.
- Over 3,500 participants—including ministers, former heads of state, business leaders, military officials, technologists, scholars, journalists and youth delegates—will attend in person.
- The overarching theme, “Kālachakra – People, Peace and Planet,” will steer six thematic pillars that address power shifts, climate dilemmas, digital governance, trade disruptions, development models and peacebuilding.
- Digital streaming will extend the conference’s reach to millions of viewers worldwide.
Detailed Insights
The Raisina Dialogue, India’s flagship forum on geopolitics and geo‑economics, returns for its decennial edition with a pronounced focus on inter‑connected challenges. By anchoring the program around the motif “Kālachakra,” organisers underscore the necessity of synchronising human welfare, ecological stewardship and planetary security.
Six pillars will structure the discourse:
- Politics Interrupted: Analyses of a fluid multipolar order, emergent alliances and the erosion of traditional power hierarchies.
- Resolving the Green Trilemma: Exploration of policy levers that can harmonise economic expansion, environmental preservation and energy reliability.
- Digital Planet: Examination of artificial intelligence, cyber‑threats, data‑governance and the architecture of a trustworthy digital economy.
- Militant Mercantilism: Scrutiny of protectionist trends, fragile supply‑chains and volatile exchange‑rate regimes, with proposals for resilient trade frameworks.
- The Tiger’s Tale: Presentation of innovative development pathways for emerging economies, highlighting the role of multilateral institutions.
- Investing in Peace: Deliberations on conflict‑resolution mechanisms, peace‑building institutions and the leadership needed to sustain global stability.
Beyond policy debates, the conference will act as a conduit for strategic partnerships across defence, climate action, digital regulation and commerce. The extensive participation of youth delegates and think‑tank scholars aims to inject fresh perspectives into long‑standing diplomatic dialogues.
Key Concepts
- Multipolarity: A distribution of global power among several states rather than dominance by a single superpower.
- Green Trilemma: The tension among economic growth, environmental sustainability and energy security that policymakers must balance.
- Digital Sovereignty: The capacity of a nation to control its own data, digital infrastructure and cyber‑policy.
- Militant Mercantilism: An economic stance that combines aggressive trade protectionism with strategic geopolitical objectives.
- Peace Investment: Allocation of resources—financial, diplomatic or institutional—to prevent conflict and sustain post‑conflict reconstruction.