9:00-10:00  

Plenary Conference by Jean Lemire, Special Envoy for Climate Change, Nordic and Arctic Affairs, Government of Québec 

10:00-10:15  

Break 

10:15-12:00 

Short Course by Paul Arthur Berkman, Founding Director and Executive Director, Science Diplomacy Center & Faculty Associate, Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School 

10 minutes 

Objectives and expected outcomes  

15 minutes 

What is Science Diplomacy? 

• Conceptual foundations: Science à Policy à Diplomacy 

• Science in addressing global challenges (What is science?) 

• Two intertwined branches of science diplomacy 

• Science diplomacy “from the inside” and outside 

• Applying the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 

35 minutes 

How does Science Diplomacy operate? 

• Balancing national interests and common interests 

• Informed decisionmaking as the engine of science diplomacy 

• Global case studies (e.g., health, biodiversity, technology, climate) 

• Real-world case studies from Prof. Berkman’s experiences 

• Operating across a ‘continuum of urgencies’ 

• Pandemic time scale (months-to-years) 

• High technology time scale (years-to-decades) 

• Climate and human population time scales (decades-to-centuries) 

• Scalability with personal-to-planetary considerations 

• ‘Pyramid of Informed Decisionmaking’ 

• Transdisciplinary research involving Open Science with society 

30 minutes 

Conflict Resolution versus Common-Interest Building 

• Nations are the basic jurisdictional unit (like metric measurements) 

• Operating across the jurisdictional spectrum 

• Scalability and continuity with science diplomacy 

• “For the benefit of all on Earth across generations” 

11:45-12:30 

DEBATE (Challenges with Uninformed Decisionmaking in the Nordic/Arctic context)