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
- Epifanio, Carlo, Amelia Leavesley, Daniel Pejic, and Pietro Reviglio. “City Diplomacy in Times of Multiple Crises – Trends, Structures and Opportunities.” City Diplomacy Lab Policy Briefs. Paris: City Diplomacy Lab, July 1, 2025.
- Kihlgren Grandi, Lorenzo, and Cecilia Emma Sottilotta. “Cities at the Crossroads: Understanding and Navigating City Diplomacy Risk.” City Diplomacy Lab Policy Briefs. Paris: City Diplomacy Lab, December 23, 2024.
- Kihlgren Grandi, Lorenzo, and Cecilia Emma Sottilotta. “Opportunities and Challenges of City Diplomacy for Urban Resilience.” In Activities of the Geneva UN Charter Centres of Excellence, ECE/HBP/2024/Inf. 4:14–15. Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2024.
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.