The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
Diplomacy Nexus is published by The Global Risks Forum (GRF), a Swiss association and one of the three pillar institutions of Nexus Consortiums, responsible for leadership, institutional dialogue and the governance of the Nexus Universe programme. This page sets out the platform's subject mandate, its publisher, its professional status and its limits. The platform home gives the overview.
GRF · Established · service level R0
Diplomacy Nexus is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Forum for diplomacy and cooperation, water, and climate and hazards. Its mandate covers scientific, policy and institutional dialogue across jurisdictions and shared global concerns. GRF publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is established and works at service level R0, information and enquiries.
Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.
The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for the Congo Basin as an example geography for this subject.
The platform's mandate is scientific, policy and institutional dialogue across jurisdictions and on shared global concerns. Its methods are comparative institutional dialogue, science diplomacy and cooperation design. Its audience is international affairs scholars, public institutions, policy diplomats and research networks.
It is a convening platform. Its value lies in helping institutions understand each other's evidence and mandates, and in recording what was discussed so that others can learn from it.
Diplomacy Nexus studies how states and institutions govern shared risks: transboundary water, the climate system, the high seas, technology, humanitarian access and human mobility. It convenes unofficial dialogue and joint fact-finding that can prepare official processes, and it never negotiates, represents or mediates for any state.
| Item | Fact |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The Global Risks Forum (GRF), a Swiss association |
| Platform status | Established: the published root is preserved and existing activity is being checked against records |
| Service level | R0: information and enquiries |
| Contact | contact@globalriskforum.com; dialogue proposals to dialogues@globalriskforum.com |
| Address | 6300 Zug, Switzerland |
Governance, integrity and safeguarding routes are described on GRF governance and trust and the platform's trust page.
An institution or network proposes a dialogue on a shared concern, such as a shared basin.
Rules of participation, recording and publication are agreed in advance, following regional dialogue methods.
A dialogue record is published only with participants' consent and with its limits stated.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
| Conflict of interest | A situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review. |
| Science diplomacy | Scientific cooperation, advice and shared evidence used in relations between states, and diplomacy used to enable scientific cooperation. |
| Global commons | Areas and resources beyond national jurisdiction or shared by all, such as the high seas, the atmosphere, Antarctica and outer space. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.