Global Transformations and Governance Challenges

Welcome to Leiden University's Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme! GTGC explores how innovative policies and governance arrangements can address global challenges in democratic, effective, fair, peaceful and sustainable ways.

Join the Just Peace Festival 2025

We are excited to announce the Just Peace Festival,  a vibrant platform for dialogue, collaboration, and action on the pressing global challenges of peace and justice! The Festival will be held in The Hague between 12 and 26 June 2025 and will offer a range of activites; from public debate dialogues, to exhibitions and movie nights. Everyone is welcome to join!

About GTGC

Recent global developments have created new challenges for our societies. Think for example of the need for coordinated international approaches to tackle pandemics, global warming and migration. Or of the importance of benefiting from new technologies while also tackling their potential negative effects. GTGC explores how innovative policies and governance arrangements can address such global transformations in democratic, effective, fair, peaceful and sustainable ways.

GTGC is based in The Hague, a world centre of global governance as well as political capital of the Netherlands. GTGC is a network of over 200 Leiden University researchers across disciplines and faculties. The programme has funded 20 seed projects on governing a variety of global challenges. We sponsor workshops, hold major international conferences, publish widely, and offer inputs to many global policy organisations in The Hague and further afield. For Leiden University's teaching programmes we have introduced new courses on governing a global world.

Explore this website to discover more about our ideas and activities. Sign up to our mailing list (on the button to the right) and follow our X/Twitter account to receive updates on our work.