“Harnessing Controversies to Address Global Challenges: From Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue to Transformative Solutions”

Contemporary global issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion pose formidable societal challenges that require structural changes involving interactions between science, technology, politics, the economy and markets, culture, and public opinion. These changes involve complex processes involving multiple stakeholders with diverse narratives, conflicting interests, and alternative visions of the future, and in most cases, generate heated controversy.

How can we identify and address these controversies and the conflicts that arise from them? How can we address their multidimensional nature? What frameworks and approaches can help us, collectively, to better understand and grapple with them?

During this MAK’IT Talk, two leading experts will discuss the controversies surrounding current global challenges and socio-technical transitions. They will present various approaches and methodologies that enable us to address these controversies constructively, foster dialogue among different stakeholders, and bring about the necessary transformations.