Research

Providing much-needed theoretical framing, reliable data, and comparative analyses of the vast array of bilateral and multilateral city actions and campaigns.

  • The City Diplomacy Lab conducts a broad range of research on city diplomacy’s fundamental concerns: environment, decentralized cooperation, peacebuilding, economy, innovation, culture, social cohesion, and migration.
  • Additionally, the Lab develops, in association with key partners, research programs on transatlantic city diplomacy.
  • Each research initiative produces scientific and educational materials designed to disseminate to the international public an understanding of the functioning, dynamics, and challenges of city diplomacy.

Our latest publications

Coming Soon

  • UNECE Centers of Excellence. Multi-level Governance for Sustainable Urban Development: Enhancing the Role of Cities and Local Authorities in National and International Decision-Making. Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Economic and Social Council, forthcoming.