The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeGovernance, Policy and International AffairsDepartment of International Affairs and Diplomacy
Agreements, regional bodies, science diplomacy and shared rivers
Diplomacy, cooperation and the global commons covers how states and institutions cooperate on shared risks through agreements, regional bodies, science diplomacy and dialogue, and how global commons such as the atmosphere, oceans and shared rivers are governed.
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Twin figures for the Horn of Africa and the Nile basin states, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
For Diplomacy, cooperation and the global commons: the faculty's twin of Horn of Africa on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to turn the globe, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows turn, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat map of the same data: the 13 countries on a graticule and the numbers below. The globe opens on devices with WebGL once its library has been checked; the live alerts, events and divisions load in the globe on request, each with its data date.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
The discipline teaches treaty participation reading from the depositary's records, institutional mapping of regional organisations and basin bodies, transboundary cooperation analysis, track two dialogue, humanitarian and technology cooperation and the links between peace and risk, under the 1969 Convention on the Law of Treaties and the 1997 Watercourses Convention. The Nile basin on the faculty's globe is its teaching case: IGAD, the African Union, the East African Community and the Nile Basin Initiative as columns whose member lists await their rows, and the treaties named with their status pages and never copied. A graduate can read a basin's institutions and agreements from their sources and write a cooperation note that names them.
This area covers how states and institutions cooperate on shared risks through agreements, regional bodies, science diplomacy and dialogue, and how global commons such as the atmosphere, oceans and shared rivers are governed. It is taught in the department of International Affairs and Diplomacy, Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs, through courses still to be authored and 2 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Science diplomacy and transboundary cooperation.
Recent developments in diplomacy, cooperation and the global commons, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Diplomacy, cooperation and the global commons, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
No course has this as its primary discipline yet. It is listed so the gap stays visible.
The courses on its authoring list are named below.
Approved for authoringno enrolment and no achievement until authored and reviewed
These courses count in their own primary discipline and also teach this one; they do not count towards its achievement as primary courses.
Also taught here2 courses that count in another discipline
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
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| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 1 |
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