Events
Bled Strategic Forum 2024
The Bled Strategic Forum 2024 calls for cooperation for the common good, by listening and hearing beyond one's own views. Sustainable solutions are needed at a time when international society is confronted with a cycle of competition, insecurity and antagonism, manifested in instability, violence and conflict. The awareness that we live in a world of parallel realities encourages us to bring these realities together for the common good.
Bled Strategic Forum 2023
We live in a world defined by polycrisis. Uncertainty and insecurity best describe the current moment in the international geostrategic community – but they also mark future challenges in the clearest possible terms. These challenges permeate every single aspect of our societies and cut against the grain of institutional and organised life in the twenty-first century.
Bled Strategic Forum 2022
We are living in uncertain and unstable times. The world order built on universally accepted rules has virtually disappeared, and with the Russian aggression on Ukraine, the remaining postulates of international and humanitarian law collapsed, bringing an era of uncertainty and instability.
Bled Strategic Forum 2021
The recent crises, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, and the changing international environment have revealed the need for the EU to adapt and change. The EU needs to build its resilience to successfully counter the crises of the future. The post-COVID recovery provides a unique chance to steer the EU on the much-required path towards an inclusive green and digital transformation.
Bled Strategic Forum 2020
We are entering an unprecedented era of crisis management. In these challenging times, with global response inefficient and inadequate, we are seeing a renewed shift in the international community towards enhanced neighbourly and regional cooperation and a need for new initiatives.
Bled Strategic Forum 2019
Resources, their availability and regional dispersion are shaping strategic relations in the international community. The effective management of strategic resources maintains stability, reduces security risks and contributes to improving living standards, whereas uneven and unjust distribution leads to inequality and the concentration of resources in centres of power.
Bled Strategic Forum 2018
Recent technological advances have helped deepen our understanding of the world and, in certain areas, bring us closer together than ever, but the world remains rife with tensions. The predictions and indeed hope of many political thinkers at the end of the 20th century that access to information would result in greater homogeneity has not materialised.
Bled Strategic Forum 2017
Under the title 'New Reality', the 12th Bled Strategic Forum took place between 4 and 5 September 2017 in Bled, Slovenia.
Bled Strategic Forum 2016
Under the title 'Safeguarding the Future', the 11th Bled Strategic Forum took place between 5 and 6 September 2016 in Bled, Slovenia.
Bled Strategic Forum 2015
Under the title 'Visions of New Partnerships', the 10th Bled Strategic Forum took place between 31 August and 1 September 2015 in Bled, Slovenia.
Bled Strategic Forum 2014
Under the title 'Power of Trust', the 9th Bled Strategic Forum took place on 1 September 2014 in Bled, Slovenia.
Bled Strategic Forum 2013
Under the title 'A Changing Europe in a Changing World', the 8th Bled Strategic Forum took place between 1 and 3 September 2013 in Bled, Slovenia.
Bled Strategic Forum 2025
September 1-5, 2025 | Bled, Slovenia
Join us for the 20th anniversary of the Bled Strategic Forum, Central and South-Eastern Europe's leading international conference. Bled Strategic Forum 2025 will bring together leaders from government, business, civil society, and academia to address this year's theme: "Resilience in a Changing World."