Former African Leaders and Club de Madrid Members Benjamin Mkapa and Festus Mogae to celebrate the 2017 Aurora Prize Laureate at the second annual Aurora Prize Ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia. These two African leaders have had first-hand experience in dealing with ongoing conflict in Africa and especially in Sudan

Club de Madrid Member Joyce Banda participated as keynote speaker at the opening session of the 2017 ECOSOC Integration Segment “Making eradication of poverty an integral objective of all policies: what will it take?” on Monday, 8 May 2017. 

To defend peace against war, support cooperation between national and local governments, fostering instruments for mediation and social dialogue, and fostering local equality policies are some of the compromises signaled in the final declaration of the First World Forum on Urban Violence. 

A 12 Member Club de Madrid delegation led by its President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, met with United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, founding Member of the Club de Madrid, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

Zlatko Lagumdzija, former Prime Minister of Bornis and Herzegovina and Club de Madrid Member, leads this workshop where there would be representatives of the European Council, experts and civil society. The workshop takes place during the WOrld Forum on Urban Violence organized by the Madrid City Hall on April 18-21, 2017.

The Shared Societies Project celebrated its tenth anniversary with a commemoration dinner attended by 35 invitees. Amongst them, 10 Club de Madrid Members, all of them former Presidents and Prime Ministers from America, Europe and Oceania and the economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.