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Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) is a think tank based in India that works on global issues. It was established in 2002. Strategic Foresight Group advises governments around the world and produces scenarios and policy concepts that have been discussed in Indian Parliament, the European Parliament, Oxford University, UK House of Commons, House of Lords, World Bank, World Economic Forum, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Global Futures Forum, Geneva Security Forum and others. ==History== 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.〔Hindustan Times, September 2006, Sri Lanka is the Most Militarised Society ()〕 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.〔Philip Bowring in the New York Times on SFG’s report The Final Settlement ()〕 It was translated into Urdu as well as Marathi. While SFG focused on South Asia including India,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How to ensure freedom from future shock - The Economic Times )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indo-Pak Conflict: Positive Costs, Zero Benefits )〕 In 2004, SFG convened a roundtable to prepare a common intellectual framework for deconstructing terror. Since then SFG has been invited by Prime Ministers, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and governments of several countries in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East for policy consultations.〔Friedrich Naumann Stiftung and Alliance and Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament ()〕 In June 2005, SFG and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe, jointly convened a roundtable at the European Parliament, Brussels, involving serving and former cabinet ministers and parliamentarians from the Middle East and Europe. The roundtable adopted the (Brussels Consensus ) on the principles and policies for a safer world. At the roundtable, Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt, Chairman of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, said "Strategic Foresight Group has a track record in exploring value-based working solutions to the problems of society. This is their intention here (at the 3rd Roundtable). It is also our intention at the FNSt." 〔Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt, Chairman of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, speaking at the European Parliament, Brussels, 26 November 2007 ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Strategic Foresight Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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