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3rd LISBON CONFERENCE

DEVELOPMENT IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY

3 A 4 Mai. 2018

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

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The Lisbon Conferences provided once again in 2018 a relevant agenda of current security and development-related themes, aimed at reinforcing Lisbon’s image as a central hub for debating major international issues that affect our lives and societies.

The conference’s program and debates highlighted unpredictability as an inherent factor of international
relations, in a global context of great instability in global actors’ interventions and strong tensions in the global arena, bringing into question the formerly prevailing balances and particularly putting at risk multilateral mechanisms and democracy itself. This was pointed out by the President of the Portuguese Republic in the opening session, in which he warned about an “almost perfect storm” probably irreversible in many areas, that jeopardises human development.