Where is the conference being held?

The conference is being held in Chittagong, BGD.

What is the format of the conference?

The conference is an in-person event, providing a platform for direct engagement and discussion.

What is the primary focus of the conference?

The conference primarily focuses on public policy, globalization, and transitional justice, exploring their interconnectedness and impact.

International Conference on Public Policy, Globalization, and Transitional Justice (ICPPGTJ-2026)

Name: International Conference on Public Policy, Globalization, and Transitional Justice (ICPPGTJ-2026)
Start: 2026-09-17T00:00:00Z
End: 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z
Location: Chittagong

Sep 17–18, 2026Chittagong, BangladeshIn-person

Registration open

The International Conference on Public Policy, Globalization, and Transitional Justice (ICPPGTJ-2026) is a significant academic gathering focused on the intricate relationships between public policy, the forces of globalization, and the mechanisms of transitional justice. Hosted in Chittagong, BGD, this conference provides a platform for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to dissect contemporary challenges and propose solutions within these interconnected fields. The event is structured to foster robust discussions and the exchange of ideas, aiming to advance understanding and practical applications.

Committees & topics

Topics
Public Policy in a Polycrisis Era · Globalization and Its Discontents · Transitional Justice After Atrocity · The Future of the International Human Rights Regime · Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Governance · Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals · Climate Policy and the Paris Agreement Trajectory · Global Migration Policy and the Compact Era

Why it matters

In an era defined by rapid global shifts and persistent societal challenges, understanding the interplay between public policy, globalization, and transitional justice is crucial. Public policies are increasingly shaped by global dynamics, from economic integration to cross-border social movements. Concurrently, societies grappling with legacies of conflict or authoritarian rule often turn to transitional justice mechanisms to achieve accountability, reconciliation, and peace. This conference offers a vital forum to explore how these elements interact, influencing national trajectories and international relations.

The discussions at ICPPGTJ-2026 are particularly relevant for addressing complex issues such as human rights, economic development, and the rule of law in diverse contexts. By examining these themes through the lens of globalization, participants can identify common patterns and unique challenges faced by different nations. The focus on transitional justice further highlights the importance of historical accountability and restorative practices in building resilient and equitable societies. This interdisciplinary approach is essential for developing effective strategies that can navigate the complexities of the modern world.

How to prepare

Delegates preparing for the ICPPGTJ-2026 should focus on developing a comprehensive understanding of how global forces impact national policy-making and the implementation of transitional justice initiatives. This involves examining specific case studies from various regions, paying close attention to the successes and failures of different approaches. Consider how economic globalization, technological advancements, and shifting geopolitical landscapes create both opportunities and obstacles for achieving justice and good governance.

Furthermore, participants should be prepared to engage with diverse perspectives on what constitutes effective public policy and legitimate transitional justice in a globalized world. This requires an appreciation for the nuances of cultural contexts and political systems. Reviewing concepts such as "hidden-stakeholders" and "engagement-strategies" can provide a framework for analyzing the various actors involved in these processes. Understanding these dynamics will enable delegates to contribute meaningfully to discussions and formulate well-reasoned arguments.

Country perspectives

Where the most-relevant 5 countries stand on the core issues in play. Click through for the full country profile.

Bangladesh

As the host nation, BGD provides a relevant context for discussions on public policy, globalization, and transitional justice, given its own experiences with development, human rights, and historical accountability.

Role in topic

BGD offers a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization, particularly concerning economic development and climate change. Its efforts in public policy reform and addressing historical injustices can serve as valuable case studies for conference participants.

United States

The USA often plays a significant role in shaping global policy and has historically influenced transitional justice processes worldwide, making its perspective crucial for understanding international norms and interventions.

Role in topic

The USA's foreign policy and its engagement with international institutions heavily influence global public policy. Its experiences with civil rights and its promotion of democratic values abroad provide a lens through which to examine the global dimensions of transitional justice and human rights.

Germany

DEU's post-conflict reconciliation and its strong commitment to international law and human rights offer a model for integrating transitional justice principles into public policy.

Role in topic

DEU's historical experience with transitional justice and its ongoing commitment to human rights and international cooperation make it a key player in discussions on global governance and accountability. Its policies on migration and development also reflect its engagement with globalization.

Colombia

COL's recent peace processes and ongoing efforts in transitional justice provide a contemporary example of navigating complex post-conflict scenarios and integrating justice mechanisms into national policy.

Role in topic

COL represents a critical case study for understanding the practical implementation of transitional justice in a context of ongoing peacebuilding. Its challenges in addressing historical grievances while fostering reconciliation offer valuable insights for policy discussions.

Rwanda

RWA's unique approach to post-genocide justice and reconciliation offers a distinct perspective on transitional justice models, particularly regarding community-based mechanisms.

Role in topic

RWA's experience with its Gacaca courts and its national reconciliation efforts provide a powerful example of how a society can grapple with mass atrocities. Its journey offers important lessons for public policy on healing and rebuilding after conflict.

Topics & background

The background behind each topic and the actors that shape it.

Public Policy in a Polycrisis Era

Public policy as a distinct field of inquiry emerged in the mid-20th century, growing out of postwar efforts in the United States and Western Europe to apply social science to government decision-making. Harold Lasswell's call for a 'policy sciences of democracy' in 1951 and the establishment of schools of public affairs through the 1960s and 1970s formalized the discipline. By the 1980s, the New Public Management movement, championed in the United Kingdom under Thatcher and in New Zealand, reframed governments as service providers and embedded market logics in policy design across the OECD. The 2008 global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the accelerating climate emergency have since exposed the limits of those frameworks. Governments are now expected to deliver simultaneously on industrial policy, digital regulation, demographic transition, and emergency response, often with eroded fiscal space and declining institutional trust. The core dispute today is over the proper scope of the state: whether contemporary challenges demand a return to dirigiste planning and active industrial strategy, or whether they should be met through regulatory steering, public-private partnerships, and decentralized governance. Current debates center on evidence-based policymaking, behavioral interventions, and the role of artificial intelligence in administrative decisions. The OECD's Recommendation on Agile Regulatory Governance (2021) and ongoing reforms to the U.S. Inflause Reduction Act, the EU Green Deal, and China's dual-circulation strategy illustrate how major powers are recalibrating the policy toolkit for an era of geopolitical fragmentation.

Key players

Globalization and Its Discontents

Modern globalization accelerated after the end of the Cold War, as the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization, China's 2001 WTO accession, and the spread of containerized shipping and digital communications knit together a single global production system. Between 1990 and 2008, global trade grew roughly twice as fast as global GDP, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty in East and South Asia while contracting manufacturing employment in much of the North Atlantic. The 2008 financial crisis marked the first major rupture, ending the so-called hyperglobalization period. The core dispute concerns the distribution of globalization's gains and the political legitimacy of the institutions that govern it. Critics from both the populist right and the left argue that liberalized capital flows, labor arbitrage, and investor-state dispute settlement have hollowed out middle classes, weakened state capacity, and entrenched corporate power. Defenders point to unprecedented poverty reduction, technological diffusion, and consumer welfare gains. The Brexit vote, U.S.-China tariff escalation since 2018, and the COVID-era exposure of supply-chain fragility have all hardened the case for selective decoupling. Today, governments speak of 'de-risking,' 'friend-shoring,' and strategic autonomy. The U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act, and India's production-linked incentive schemes signal a partial retreat from efficiency-maximizing globalization toward resilience and security. Whether this constitutes a structural break or a rebalancing within an enduring global system remains the central analytical question.

Key players

Transitional Justice After Atrocity

Transitional justice emerged as a distinct field in the 1980s and 1990s, as Latin American military regimes, post-communist states in Eastern Europe, and post-apartheid South Africa confronted legacies of mass human rights violations. Argentina's 1985 trials of the junta, Chile's Rettig Commission (1991), and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1995-1998) established a repertoire of mechanisms — criminal prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations, vetting, and institutional reform — that the UN later codified in the 2004 Secretary-General's report on the rule of law in conflict and post-conflict societies. The core dispute concerns the trade-off between accountability and political stability, and between retributive and restorative approaches. Critics argue that international criminal mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court established by the 1998 Rome Statute, impose Western legalist templates on societies that may prefer locally rooted reconciliation processes such as Rwanda's gacaca courts or Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace. Others contend that without prosecutions, impunity persists and recurrence becomes more likely. Reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence, often the weakest pillars in practice, are increasingly central to demands from victims' groups. Contemporary cases — Colombia's implementation of the 2016 peace accord, Ukraine's prospective post-war accountability architecture, The Gambia's TRRC follow-through, and debates over reparations for colonial-era violations and the transatlantic slave trade — are testing whether transitional justice can be extended to historical injustice, ongoing conflict, and structural harms beyond its original post-authoritarian remit.

Key players

The Future of the International Human Rights Regime

The modern human rights regime is anchored in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the twin 1966 Covenants on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The 1993 Vienna Declaration affirmed the indivisibility of these rights, and the 2006 creation of the Human Rights Council and its Universal Periodic Review mechanism aimed to depoliticize scrutiny. Regional systems in Europe, the Americas, and Africa have produced an extensive jurisprudence, while the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights coordinates the UN treaty bodies and special procedures. The core dispute is over universality versus contextual interpretation, and over the regime's selectivity. Several governments argue that human rights monitoring is applied unevenly and is instrumentalized by Western powers, while civil society groups document a global democratic recession, with Freedom House recording 18 consecutive years of decline in political rights and civil liberties through 2024. New frontiers — generative AI and algorithmic accountability, the right to a healthy environment recognized in GA Resolution 76/300 (2022), business and human rights under the UN Guiding Principles, and digital surveillance — are stretching a treaty framework largely designed for state-citizen relations. The regime today faces simultaneous pressure from authoritarian consolidation, conflict-driven mass atrocities, and a funding crisis at OHCHR. Debates over a possible Special Rapporteur on AI, the operationalization of climate-displacement protection, and reform of the Council's membership criteria define the near-term agenda.

Key players

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Governance

Interdisciplinary scholarship gained institutional traction in the postwar period as governments and foundations recognized that nuclear strategy, development, environmental protection, and public health could not be addressed within single disciplines. The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations underwrote area studies in the 1950s and 1960s; the 1972 Stockholm Conference and the rise of environmental science fused natural and social inquiry; and the 1987 Brundtland Report institutionalized sustainable development as an inherently cross-cutting concept. The core dispute concerns methodological rigor and policy relevance. Critics worry that interdisciplinarity dilutes disciplinary standards and produces unfalsifiable synthesis, while proponents argue that 'wicked problems' — climate change, pandemics, AI governance, forced displacement — cannot be understood through any single lens. The rapid growth of fields such as science and technology studies, political ecology, computational social science, and global health reflects sustained demand from policymakers for integrated analysis. Contemporary debates focus on how universities, funding agencies, and international organizations should structure interdisciplinary work. The UN's 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report, the IPCC's integration of physical, biological, and social science, and the WHO's One Health framework all exemplify the institutional turn toward interdisciplinary problem-solving. Questions of epistemic justice — whose knowledge counts, and how indigenous and local knowledge systems are integrated — are increasingly central.

Key players

Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by all UN member states in September 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda, succeeding the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015). Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs apply universally — to developed and developing countries alike — and integrate economic, social, and environmental dimensions across 169 targets and roughly 230 indicators. Implementation is monitored through Voluntary National Reviews presented at the High-Level Political Forum, with financing anchored in the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The core dispute is over financing and the credibility of the framework itself. The 2023 SDG Summit acknowledged that only about 15 percent of targets were on track, with COVID-19, debt distress, conflict, and climate impacts reversing prior gains in poverty reduction, food security, and education. Developing countries point to an annual SDG financing gap estimated by UNCTAD at over USD 4 trillion and demand reform of the international financial architecture, including MDB capital adequacy, special drawing rights reallocation, and sovereign debt restructuring under proposals such as the Bridgetown Initiative. With less than five years until 2030, debates have shifted from goal-setting to delivery: integrating SDG implementation with climate action under the Paris Agreement, mobilizing private finance without greenwashing, and designing a credible successor framework beyond 2030. The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development is positioned as a key inflection point.

Key players

Climate Policy and the Paris Agreement Trajectory

International climate policy is built on the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement, under which nearly all states pledged to hold warming 'well below 2°C' and pursue efforts toward 1.5°C through nationally determined contributions (NDCs). The IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (2021-2023) concluded that limiting warming to 1.5°C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 and fall roughly 43 percent by 2030 relative to 2019 levels. The core dispute concerns the pace of mitigation, the equity of burden-sharing, and the financing of adaptation and loss and damage. Developing countries, organized through groupings such as the G77+China, the African Group, AOSIS, and the LMDCs, emphasize common but differentiated responsibilities and the historical emissions of industrialized states. COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh agreed to establish a Loss and Damage Fund, operationalized at COP28 in Dubai, where parties also agreed for the first time to language on 'transitioning away from fossil fuels.' COP29 in Baku set a new collective quantified goal on climate finance of at least USD 300 billion per year by 2035, widely criticized as inadequate. With current NDCs implying warming of roughly 2.5-2.9°C by 2100, attention has turned to the 2025 NDC update cycle, methane and non-CO2 gases, carbon markets under Article 6, fossil fuel subsidy reform, and the just transition. The interaction between climate policy and trade — through measures such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — is an emerging flashpoint.

Key players

Global Migration Policy and the Compact Era

International migration governance rests on a fragmented architecture: the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol for those fleeing persecution, ILO conventions on migrant workers, and the 1990 Migrant Workers Convention (ratified primarily by sending states). The 2016 New York Declaration produced two distinct instruments adopted in 2018 — the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees — both non-binding but representing the first comprehensive global frameworks on these issues. The core dispute is over sovereignty, responsibility-sharing, and the categorization of mobility. Destination states in Europe, North America, and the Gulf emphasize border control, return agreements, and the distinction between refugees and economic migrants. Sending and transit states, alongside UNHCR and IOM, point to chronic underfunding of refugee response, with UNHCR appeals routinely funded at under half of needs, and to the inadequacy of legal pathways. The number of forcibly displaced people surpassed 120 million in 2024, driven by conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine, Syria, Myanmar, and the Sahel, while climate-related displacement is rising sharply without dedicated legal protection. Current debates focus on externalization arrangements such as the EU-Turkey statement and the EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum (adopted 2024), U.S.-Mexico cooperation on hemispheric flows, the protection gap for climate-displaced people, and the rights of labor migrants in destination economies. The interaction between demographic decline in high-income states and youth bulges in lower-income regions makes migration a defining structural issue of the coming decades.

Key players

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International Conference on Public Policy, Globalization, and Transitional Justice (ICPPGTJ-2026)

Sep 17–18, 2026Chittagong, BangladeshIn-person

Registration open

Committees & topics

Topics
Public Policy in a Polycrisis Era · Globalization and Its Discontents · Transitional Justice After Atrocity · The Future of the International Human Rights Regime · Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Governance · Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals · Climate Policy and the Paris Agreement Trajectory · Global Migration Policy and the Compact Era

Why it matters

How to prepare

Country perspectives

Where the most-relevant 5 countries stand on the core issues in play. Click through for the full country profile.

Bangladesh

Role in topic

United States

Role in topic

Germany

DEU's post-conflict reconciliation and its strong commitment to international law and human rights offer a model for integrating transitional justice principles into public policy.

Role in topic

Colombia

Role in topic

Rwanda

RWA's unique approach to post-genocide justice and reconciliation offers a distinct perspective on transitional justice models, particularly regarding community-based mechanisms.

Role in topic

Topics & background

The background behind each topic and the actors that shape it.

Public Policy in a Polycrisis Era

Key players

Globalization and Its Discontents

Key players

Transitional Justice After Atrocity

Key players

The Future of the International Human Rights Regime

Key players

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Governance

Key players

Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

Key players

Climate Policy and the Paris Agreement Trajectory

Key players

Global Migration Policy and the Compact Era

Key players

Resources

News, lessons, and country profiles to prep for International Conference on Public Policy, Globalization, and Transitional Justice (ICPPGTJ-2026).

Recent reporting to ground your prep

Trump's Legal Battles Impact 2026 Elections

Trump's Economic Reset

Supreme Court's Voting Rights Impact on 2026

GOP Conservative Factions Clash Over Trump

Lessons

Bite-sized lessons to build the basics

Hidden Stakeholders

Engagement Strategies

Dynamic Analysis

Stakeholder Mapping Workshop

Courses

Guided courses that go deeper on the topic

Policy Brief Writing

Advanced Negotiation

Multilateral Negotiation

Conflict Resolution

Bangladesh September 2026

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Committees & topics

Why it matters

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