RAISINA DIALOGUE 2026

NEWS: Prime Minister of India inaugurated the Raisina Dialogue 2026 in New Delhi on 5 March 2026

ABOUT

• India’s premier multilateral conference on geopolitics and geo-economics
• Focusing onà global governance, strategic affairs, and emerging international challenges.
• Serves as a platform for dialogue among world leaders, policymakers, military commanders, academics, and industry experts to discuss global strategic issues.
• Launched in 2016.
• Hosted annually in New Delhi by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India.
• Theme of Raisina Dialogue 2026: Saṁskāra – Assertion, Accommodation, Advancement.

Six Thematic Pillars (2026)

• 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

Key Features of Raisina Dialogue 2026:

• 11th edition held from 5–7 March 2026 in New Delhi.
• Around 2700 participants from 110 countries attended in person.
• Participation includes ministers, former heads of state, parliamentarians, military leaders, think tanks, technology leaders, and youth delegates.
• Proceedings are broadcast globally through digital platforms, reaching millions of viewers