GLOBAL RE:THINK DIALOGUE 2045 is a private international initiative launched by a network of independent thinkers, scholars, and cultural strategists across various disciplines. The project aims to develop a shared global agenda beyond national borders and political frameworks , by fostering long-term dialogue and collaboration among leading international think tanks , intellectuals, and public institutions.
The initiative functions as a non-governmental and non-ideological platform for rethinking the foundations of global coexistence in the face of the visible breakdown of the post-WWII international system established in 1945. Rather than offering short-term solutions to geopolitical crises, the forum seeks to construct a philosophical and cultural roadmap to the year 2045, using reverse horizon thinking —imagining an ideal planetary order and working backward to identify the knowledge systems and institutions needed to realize it.
Key collaborators and participants include :
Mr. Nelson Wong , Vice Chairman and President of the Shanghai Centre for RimPac Strategic and International Studies , a non-governmental think tank based in China;
The Gorbachev Foundation (Russia), acting as one of the institutional partners and venues for hosting international discussions;
M BALANCE Strategic Meaning Center , led by its President Andrey Matuzov , specializing in systemic thinking, strategic communication, and meaning-based frameworks for post-national cooperation;
A growing network of scholars, philosophers, futurists, artists, and climate thinkers from Asia, Europe, the Americas, the Global South, and the post-Soviet region.
The mission of RE:THINK 2045 is to develop a planetary intellectual infrastructure that enables new forms of cooperation in the face of fragmented identities, exhausted ideologies, and accelerating technological disruption. It calls for the creation of a new humanistic horizon grounded not in dominance or universalism, but in planetarity, pluralism, ethics, and cultural intelligence .
Themes explored by the initiative include :
Planetarity vs. Globalization
The future of human agency in the age of AI
Post-universal ethics and plural sovereignty
Cultural survival as a condition of political renewal
Climate and memory as global connectors
New forms of democratic participation
Reimagining knowledge, solidarity, and institutions
GLOBAL RE:THINK DIALOGUE 2045 combines live forums, academic publications, philosophical manifestos, and virtual collaborations, working to articulate a vision of the world that may emerge by 2045—one hundred years after the last attempt to design global order.
