Conferences

The Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Programme hosts a range of international academic gatherings.

In 2025, GTGC co-organised with the City of The Hague and the Hague Humanity Hub a Just Peace Festival, a vibrant platform on the pressing global challenges of peace with justice. The festival involved a wide range of different activities, including dialogues, exhibitions, performances, film evenings, tours, awards, and more. GTGC took the lead in convening seven Just Peace Dialogues that together involved 40 panellists and 500 participants.

In previous years, GTGC events prominently included an annual international conference, which have attracted 200-300 researchers from around the world every year. 

We have hosted more subject-specific meetings such as the 2024 Eighth Conference of Global Internet Governance: Actors, Regulations, Transactions, Strategies (GIG-ARTS), as well as workshops on human rights and climate change; women, peace and security; platform capitalism; and more.

About the annual conferences

GTGC's annual conferences explore how major world-scale changes (of ecology, economy, geopolitics, migration, pandemics, technology, etc.) are - and could be better - governed.

The Hague is home to hundreds of embassies, government agencies, international organizations, NGOs, research institutes, and social movements, making it uniquely suited for an interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder dialogue.

The proceedings include high-level practitioner roundtables, academic panel discussions, and book launch events. Receptions, lunches, and coffee breaks offer extensive networking opportunities.