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Foresight's principal aims are to foster better multilateral understanding of the key challenges facing today's major players in order to promote a fairer and more functional international order that is able to recognise and accommodate the values and preferences of the different global players. Foresight pursues these aims through a programme of events, research and publications that engage diverse constituents on the issues and challenges affecting their futures.

The Foresight working method includes a series of high-level roundtable symposia, at which different "insider" and "outsider" perspectives on a number of key global challenges are compared. The aim of these events is to identify areas where common positions between the Foresight countries/regions can be developed and thus progress made towards forging common futures. By bringing together participants from different parts of the world, these events will help build and sustain a Foresight network. Events have been held in Moscow, Washington DC and New Delhi. Further Symposia are planned in Brazil, Europe and China.

Alongside these roundtables, Foresight publications and research will form a continuous feature of the programme.

Through these activities, Foresight plans to forge and sustain a network of leaders, policymakers and academic experts from different regions of the world who are willing to learn from one another and make use of the insights achieved in the programme to improve international dialogue, understanding and cooperation.

In our age of global interdependence, a singular discourse is no longer viable, but a nuanced and complex discourse may emerge from genuine engagement and discussion. That is the purpose of Foresight, to create a forum for engagement, discussion, critique, comparison and analysis, and in this way help forge common futures.