Strategic Foresight Group
| Abbreviation | SFG |
|---|---|
| Motto | Anticipating and Influencing Global Future |
| Formation | 2002 |
| Type | Think tank |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
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President
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Sundeep Waslekar |
| Website | strategicforesight |
Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) is a think tank based in India that works on global issues. It was established in 2002.
SFG advises governments around the world and produces scenarios and policy concepts that have been discussed in Parliament of India, the European Parliament, Oxford University, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, World Bank, World Economic Forum, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Global Futures Forum, Geneva Security Forum and others.
The founding of SFG coincided with a period of oscillating developments in India-Pakistan relations. SFG produced an assessment of the cost of conflict between the two countries. India's then External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, in a suo moto letter addressed to the President of SFG, described it as a valuable tool for the practitioners of foreign policy. SFG went on to undertake a similar exercise for Sri Lanka. This report too attracted considerable attention. In 2005, its report, The Final Settlement created a public debate; for the first time it identified the centrality of the water dimension in the India-Pakistan relations. It was translated into Urdu as well as Marathi.
While SFG focused on South Asia including India, in its initial period, it has since widened the scope of its work to address terrorism, clash of civilizations, cost of conflict, water security and global governance issues.
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