About Us

• About Us
  • Partners
  • Mission

Projects

• Projects
  • Policy Assignments
    • Higher Education, OECD
    • Education and Socio-economic Development, OECD
    • Mainstreaming Decent Work Agends in the Poverty Reduction Strategy, ILO, Geneva
    • Integrated Framework (IF), BAH-USAID
    • Trade in Educational Services, WTO-GATS
    • Environmental Negotiation, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
    • CDM, European Climate Policy Research Seminars (ECPRS)
  • Policy Advocacy
    • Alternative Development Strategies for Bolivia
  • Training in Diplomacy
    • Institute of Sociology Basel
    • Regional Trade: Principles and Practices
    • Seminar on GATS/Tourism and Creative Industries
  • Related Training References
    • Diplomat, Dream Job?
    • Multilateral Negotiation Simulations

Publications

• Publications
  • Agricultural Diplomacy
    • Beyond the crisis: The future of the multilateral system
    • Agricultural Commodities of Ethiopia, Madagascar and Tanzania
    • Closing policy gaps to enable agripreneurship of smallholder farmers in developing countries
  • Business Diplomacy
    • Academy of Management Executive
    • 29th Meeting of Directors and Deans of Diplomatic Academies and Institutes of International Relations
    • Organizational Dynamics
    • Business - Government - NGO Relation: Their Impact on Global Economic Governance
    • Interconnections - Perspectives on international management practice
    • Business Diplomacy Management: A Must-Have Skillset for Iran
    • Effective Business Diplomacy
    • Lichia Yiu & Raymond Saner, 2018, “Business Diplomacy in Implementing the Global 2030 Development Agenda: Core Competencies needed at the at the Corporate and Managerial Level
    • Lichia Yiu; “Role of Business Diplomacy Where Economic Diplomacy Stops –A Critical Reflection of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa”
    • Raymond Saner: “Infrastructure investment in Africa: Mainstreaming the SDGs to ensure cooperation between Economic, Commercial, Business and NGO Diplomacy”
    • Webinar: Professor Raymond Saner : "Business Diplomacy"
    • Business Diplomacy in Emerging Markets: Intersection of Roles between States and Multinationals
  • Commercial Diplomacy
    • Analyses, Strategies at Bilateral, Regional and Multilateral Levels: Bolivia 2000
    • Estudios de caso de negociaciones en el ámbito de comercio exterior, análisis y estrategies a nivel bilateral, regional y multilateral
    • The International Monetary Fund's Influence on Trade Policies of Low-income Countries:Valid Undertaking?
  • Corporate Diplomacy
    • Best Practice: Tri-Continental (Europe, North-America, Asia) ODL Programme of 3M Corporation's Asia-Pacific Research Laboratories
    • Witkin’s Cognitive Styles and Field Theory applied to the Study of Global Managers and OD Practitioners
  • Cultural Diplomacy
    • Hierarchies of failures and solutions : Need for Cultural Diplomacy!
    • Cultural Tourism Development in Lake of Geneva region
    • Saner, R; Yiu, L, (2004) Organisational Culture of UN Agencies: The Need for Diplomats to Manage Porous Boundary Phenomena
  • Development Diplomacy
    • Least Developed Countries: Non-State Actor Advocacy and Multistakeholder Diplomacy
    • Development Diplomacy and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers for Least Developed Countries : Non-State Actor Advocacy and Multistakeholder Diplomacy
    • Technical Assitance to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the context of the Doha Development Round (DDR): High risk of failure
    • Global Governance and Diplomacy: World's Apart ?
    • Mainstreaming Decent Work Agenda in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan, ILO, Geneva
    • International Labour Organization (ILO)
    • Yiu, L; Saner, R, 2007, CSEND, Development Diplomacy and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers for Least Developed Countries: Non-State Actor Advocacy and Multistakeholder Diplomacy
    • Saner, R, 2007, Development Diplomacy by Non-State Actors: an emerging form of multi-stakeholder Diplomacy
    • “The 2030 Agenda compared with six related international agreements: valuable resources for SDG implementation”
  • Economic Diplomacy
    • Discussion Papers in Diplomacy
    • Negotiating Trade in Educational Services
    • Comment fonctionnent les négociations AGCS?
    • ISO 22000's Potential Impact on World Trade in Agricultural Products
    • Business–Government-NGO relations
    • The International Monetary Fund's Influence on Trade Policy: A Legal Critique
    • Fine-tuning Turkey’s economic diplomacy
    • REPORT ON THE CONFERENCE ON WTO RULES AND THE FOOD CRISIS IN THE LDCS
    • La Suisse est-elle soluble dans l’Europe
    • Turkey economic diplomacy
    • Global Economic Governance from the Perspective of a “Small State”
    • Lecture given on Economic Diplomacy
  • Educational Diplomacy
    • Negotiating Trade in Educational Services within the WTO/GATS Context
    • Trade in Educational Services and the Doha WTO Round: the need to move out of current impasse
    • Trade in education services: Market opportunities and risks
    • Rethinking Trade in Education Services: A Wake-Up Call for Trade Negotiators
    • Riding the tiger of growing trade in higher education services: smart regulation needed instead of laissez-faire hyperopia or prohibition policy myopia
  • Energy Diplomacy
    • Bolivia’s Trade Energy Environment Policies
    • Bolivia’s energy-sector intervention is a missed opportunity for economic development
    • Post Katowice COP 24 – need to go beyond “Business as Usual” to accelerate zero-carbon electricity generation
  • Environmental Diplomacy
    • Climate Change and Environmental Negotiations: Global and Local Dynamics
    • Stakeholder Analysis of Trans-Border Regional Cooperation on Environmental Protection in Northeast Asia
    • Negotiating environmental conflicts: Economic, sociological, and legal aspects of environmental negotiations in the Alpine region
    • Transnational Corporations
    • Levers to Enhance TNC Contributions to Low-Carbon Development- Drivers, Determinants and Policy Implications
    • International governance options to strengthen WTO and UNFCCC
    • "Environmental conflicts in Latin America"
    • Greening WTO Agreements to stop Climate Warming
    • Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development
    • Greening the World Trade Organization
    • Environmental conflicts and sustainable development in Latin America: Negotiations between enterprises, NGOs and Governments
  • Health Diplomacy
    • Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
    • Intersectoral action for health
    • Monitoring, Transparency and Accountability Framework within Global Partnerships in the global health sector
    • Public Private Partnerships in the Health Sector
    • 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
    • Negotiation and Health Diplomacy: The Case of Tobacco
  • Humanitarian Diplomacy
    • Political Psychology
    • Human security psychology: a linking construct for an eclectic discipline
  • Migration Diplomacy
    • Migrations extra-communautaires
    • Population Ageing and lack of semi-skilled workers in Switzerland: A new migration card?
    • Raymond Saner & Lichia Yiu, “Lack of semi-skilled workers in Switzerland: Opportunities for Refugees and Migrants? in Book titled « les questions migratoires et l’Agenda 2030 »
    • Forced Labor of Migrant Workers on Fishing Ships: Holding Management and Governments Accountable
  • Peace Diplomacy
    • International Peace Negotiations
    • External Evaluation of Programme Activities Fostering the Geneva Initiative
    • Alternative policy options instead of war and invasion of Iraq
    • Private Military and Security Companies: Industry-Led Self-Regulatory Initiatives versus State-Led Containment Strategy
    • Peace in Syria once warring parties reach exhaustion
    • The Road to the Charter of Paris: Historical Narratives and Lessons for the OSCE Today
    • OSCE Confidence Building in the Economic and Environmental Dimension
    • Multilateral cooperation revisited establishing the way forward by reassessing the realities
    • Private military and security companies: legal and political ambiguities impacting the global governance of warfare in public arenas
    • Newspaper articles on Negotiations
  • Political Diplomacy
    • External Stakeholder Impacts on Third-Party Interventions in Resolving Malignant Conflicts
    • Verhandlungstechnik
    • Hong Kong &Tangier: Two international and prosperous port cities, two absorptions into their respective motherlands: same destinies?
    • MERKUR
    • Contextual Constraints of Organisation Development Change Projects in the United Nations Organisations
    • El Experto Negociador
    • Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy
    • "O Negociador Experiente", 2nd Edition
    • "L'art de la négociation", 2nd Edition
    • "The Expert Negotiator" 2nd Edition
    • Importancia del entrenamiento en gestión administrativa y liderazgo en la formación diplomática contemporánea
    • Cyprus conflict and social capital theory
    • Negotiations Between State Actors And Non State Actors: Case Analyses From Different Parts Of The World
    • Training of Diplomats
    • Training Diplomats in Management and Leadership
    • Die Zukunft der Diplomatie
    • "The Expert Negotiator" 4th Edition
    • External Stakeholder Impacts on Official and Non-Official Third-Party Interventions to Resolve Malignant Conflicts: The case of a failed intervention in Cyprus; CSEND, Geneva and shorter version in International Negotiations”
    • The 2030 Agenda: no poverty reduction without policy coherence
    • No policy coherence? No poverty reduction
    • Raymond Saner, (2011), “Training Diplomats in Management, Leadership and Negotiations with Non-State Actors”
    • Raymond Saner, “The professional culture of a Diplomat”.
  • Regional Diplomacy
    • Ancient County: Opportunities for international cooperation?
  • Science Diplomacy
    • Science Diplomacy to support global implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Social Diplomacy
    • Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS): An ILO Advocacy Guidebook for staff and constituents
    • Sustainable transborder business cooperation in the European regions: the importance of social entrepreneurship
    • Development Diplomacy and Partnerships for Social Policy at the Time of PRSPs: The Case of Decent Work
    • Sustainable Development: Post-2015 Implications A closer look at the SDG and MDG processes
    • “Intersectoral Coordination of Decent Work in the Context of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP): Lessons learnt for the SDGs”
    • The measuring and monitoring of human trafficking
    • Living Wage and Sustainable Development Goal # 8
  • Trade Diplomacy
    • The 2010 World Investment Report
    • Doha stalemate: Implications and ways forward”, CSEND Policy Brief, Geneva, August 2011
    • Could plurilateral agreements provide a way forward out of the current impasse of the WTO/Doha Round?
    • Labour Rights as Human Rights: Evaluating the policy coherence of USA, EU and Australia through trade agreements and their participation in the Universal Periodic Review
    • Making plurilateral negotiations support WTO
    • (Strategies and Importance of International Organisations) in the context of the teaching programme on “Globalisation Talks
  • NGO Diplomacy
    • Participation of Civil Society Organisations in the United Nations and in the Aid Effectiveness Discourse and Related Standard-Setting Negotiations
    • NGO Diplomacy to monitor and influence Business and Government to tackle Work Precariousness
  • History of Negotiations
    • Negotiating independence. Switzerland in1647–48: JohannRudolfWettstein,mayor of the state (canton)of Basel City and negotiator for the Swiss Confederation

Conferences

• Conferences
  • Business Diplomacy
    • WORKSHOP ON BUSINESS DIPLOMACY
    • 1st International Conference on Business Diplomacy
  • Commercial Diplomacy
    • UNCTAD Regional Conference on Policy consultation Workshop on Using TRIPS Flexibility for the Promotion of Licences for Pharmaceutical Patents
    • Strengthening Skills on Commercial and Economic Diplomacy
    • The Race for Regulation of Private Security Companies
  • Corporate Diplomacy
    • Global Manager as Corporate Diplomat
  • Cultural Diplomacy
    • L'importance des différences culturelles dans la négociation internationale
  • Development Diplomacy
    • Trade Policy Making and Multi-stakeholder Diplomacy
    • United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development/DESA/UNCSD
  • Economic Diplomacy
    • Inter-ministerial Coordination of Trade Policy at Central Government Level in Macedonia and Kyrgyzstan
    • Fine-tuning Turkey’s economic diplomacy In support of its EU accession process
    • 2nd Round Table on Tourism
  • Educational Diplomacy
  • Environmental Diplomacy
    • Searching for trade policy changes to stop climate warming
  • Humanitarian Diplomacy
    • Annual Meeting of Society of Socioeconomics in Geneva
    • The measuring and monitoring of human trafficking
  • Peace Diplomacy
    • Facilitation of Expert-meeting on "Abyei’s Deadlock"
    • State actor vs Non state Actor Negotiations
    • Nelson Mandela Human Rights Lecture
    • Private Military and Security Companies in Public Arenas
  • Political Diplomacy
    • what could Hong Kong learn from the history of Tangiers?
    • Conducting Change Projects in the United Nations & Related Intergovernmental Organization
    • Multi-stakeholder Diplomacy
    • Challenges for Foreign Ministries
    • UN Library Talk Event: “Discussion on the Evolution of Warfare”, UN Geneva, 5th December 2018
  • Social Diplomacy
    • SME Development in Economically Depressed Regions
    • Atellier de formation sur L'integration de la dimension emploi dans le MAP
    • Cross Border Co-operation and Entrepreneurship: the Role of Social Capital
  • Trade Diplomacy
    • Plurilateralism against multilateralism? A multi-stakeholder perspective
    • Making plurilateral negotiations support the multilateral trading system
  • UN library talk
    • Private Development Assistance and the SDGs: How You and I Can Contribute to End Extreme Poverty by 2030
    • People at the Core: Humanitarian Work Psychology and the Global Development Agenda
    • What kind of sustainable education for our common future?
    • Roundtable on “How to ensure ageing with dignity?
    • Discussion on the Evolution of Warfare

Teaching Syllabi

• Teaching Syllabi
  • Books
    • Verhandlungen bei Umweltkonflikten
    • Umweltkonflikte und Nachhaltigkeit in Lateinamerika
    • Verhandlungstechnik
    • TRADE POLICY GOVERNANCE THROUGH INTER-MINISTERIAL COORDINATION A SOURCE BOOK FOR TRADE OFFICIALS AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERTS
    • NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN STATE ACTORS AND NON-STATE ACTORS: CASE ANALYSES FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
    • O negociador experiente
    • L’art de la négociation
    • El Experto Negociador
    • The Expert Negotiator
  • Articles
    • Négociation (Théorie de la Négociation)
    • NEGOTIATIONS: Contributions by Scholars from Social and Economic Sciences
    • Wenn die Verwaltung verhandelt: Besonderheit oder Business as Usual?
    • Verhandein mit chinesischen Geschaftspartnern
    • CYPRUS CONFLICT: WILL IT EVER END IN AGREEMENT?
    • Negotiation and Health Diplomacy: The Case of Tobacco
  • International Business & the New Diplomacies
  • Negotiation Theory & Practice in Multi-stakeholder Context
  • TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT