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David Chikvaidze

Chikvaidze, David

Chikvaidze, David

Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Vice President, Swiss Forum for International Affairs; Associate Fellow, Geneva Center for Security Policy; Former Chef de Cabinet, Director-General, UNOG

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Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Vice President, Swiss Forum for International Affairs; Associate Fellow, Geneva Center for Security Policy; Former Chef de Cabinet, Director-General, UNOG

Dr David Chikvaidze has nearly four decades of experience in the foreign service and international civil service, specializing in the challenges of multilateralism, great power relationships, Eurasian geopolitics, and global security. As Chief of Staff to five Directors-General of the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG), he provided strategic advice and back-channel diplomacy. Fluent in four languages, he has negotiated and mediated on complex issues across diverse cultural contexts, participating in key talks on humanitarian aid and security in North Korea, Western Sahara, the Balkans and Central Asia. He is currently Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), vice president of the Swiss Forum for International Affairs, Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), Associate Director at Strategia Worldwide. Born in Tbilisi, he is a Georgian citizen with extensive global networks.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

The World at a Crossroads: Managing a Change of Eras in an Age of Belligerent Uncertainty
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The narrative offers an original conceptual framework and observations to help make sense of the current predicament in which the world finds itself. A once-in-a-lifetime change of eras is unfolding amid a return of war as a tool of choice, or of Belligerent Uncertainty—a concept introduced in the narrative—with existential challenges at the world’s doorstep, Artificial Intelligence increasingly permeating daily life, as the multilateral mindset recedes into...
Reclaiming the Global Future   ( Peace and Security ), ( Global Governance & Law )
Get Full Text in PDF We are today living not in a mere shifting environment but a pivotal moment. The essentials of eras change only every century or so, when the existing social and economic paradigm has exhausted itself and a new one emerges.  The era we have entered upon began with the end of the Cold War. Yet, neither the end of an ideological standoff nor even the disappearance of a major empire necessarily makes a new era. Rather, some deeper event seems to be evolving in...
Multilateralism: Its Past, Present and Future   ( International Organizations ), ( Social Science ), ( Knowledge, Science & Values )
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The narrative ‘sweeps through’ history, starting with the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648, on to the Congress of Vienna of 1814-15, to the current terminology of ‘modern multilateralism’ with its lineage from the Versailles Treaty of 1919 and the League of Nations, to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods in 1944, the European Coal and Steel Community of 1950, to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1970 and concluding the...
Global Leadership in the 21st Century
 Get Full Text in PDF Editorial Note: This article is the initial background paper for a 15-month project entitled “Global Leadership in the 21st Century” launched by WAAS in collaboration with the United Nations in Geneva at a one-day roundtable hosted by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Baku, Azerbaijan on March 17, 2019. The paper explores fundamental questions in order to identify ways to consciously foster and accelerate the development of leadership so urgently needed to...