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Our Global Challenges

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A series of dialogues focused on global challenges, including the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Made Possible by the Knight Foundation.

About Our Global Challenges

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This monthly series of panel discussions is held at CSIS in partnership with University of Miami’s Knight Center for International Media. The series focuses on discussions surrounding the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which are:

  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
  • Ensure environmental sustainability;
  • Develop a global partnership for development.


The series features political leaders, innovators, international experts, thought leaders, and public figures from around the world.

Additional photos and slideshows from Our Global Challenges events

Former Programs

  • Strengthening of America—Our Children’s Future
  • Transnational Threats Project Archive
  • HIV/AIDS Task Force
  • Hills Program on Governance
  • The Embassy of the Future
  • Turkey Project
  • Youth, Prosperity, and Security Initiative
  • Project in Southeast European Studies
  • Capacity and Resolve: Foreign Assessments of U.S. Power
  • Global Aging Initiative
  • New Defense Approaches Project
  • Project on Global Water Policy
  • CSIS Commission on Public Infrastructure
  • Our Global Challenges
    • MDG Summit Series
  • Smart Power Initiative
  • Alliances and American Leadership Project
  • Cohen-Nunn Dialogues
  • Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq
  • Open Dialogue Initiative
  • The Washington Quarterly
  • U.S. Nuclear Energy Project
  • Transatlantic Media Network
  • Williamsburg-CSIS Global Forum
  • HSEI: Governance, Finance, Public Support
  • Smart Power in Space
  • Nuclear Energy Program
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Harnessing Innovation to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
February 4, 2011
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Ambassador Melanne Verveer on "Advancing Progress through Empowerment of Women and Girls"
September 7, 2010
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ONE's 2010 DATA Report: Building on Progress Made and Lessons Learned since Gleneagles to Meet the Millennium Development Goals
June 10, 2010
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The Responsible Resources Trade
May 18, 2010
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The Millennium Development Goals and the United States
April 14, 2010
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Confronting the Tough Challenges in HIV Prevention
January 19, 2010
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Ending Poverty and Hunger
November 24, 2009
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Meeting the Challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti
November 2, 2009
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