Raisina Dialogue 2026

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Prime Minister recently inaugurated the 11th edition of the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi.

About Raisina Dialogue

• It is India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics, committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the international community.
• It is modeled on the lines of the Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue.
• It is held annually since 2016 in New Delhi.
• It is structured as a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral discussion, involving heads of state, cabinet ministers, and local government officials, who are joined by thought leaders from the private sector, media, and academia.
• The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. 
• This effort is supported by a number of institutions, organisations, and individuals who are committed to the mission of the conference.

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Raisina Dialogue 2026

• It is the 11th edition of the dialogue.
• Theme: “Saṁskāra – Assertion, Accommodation, Advancement”.
• Around 2700 participants from 110 countries will be joining the dialogue in person.
• Over the course of three days, decision makers and thought leaders of the world will engage each other across conversations in various formats over six thematic pillars: 
  • Contested Frontiers: Power, Polarity, and Periphery; 
  • Repairing the Commons: New Groups, New Guardians, New Avenues; 
  • White Whale: The Pursuit of Agenda 2030; 
  • The Eleventh Hour: Climate, Conflict, and the Cost of Delay; 
  • Tomorrowland: Towards a Tech-topia; 
  • Trade in the Time of Tariffs: Recovery, Resilience, Reinvention

Source: NOA