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The fifth Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate (ADSD) kicked off in the capital on Sunday with keynote speeches by Dr Ebtesam Al Ketbi, President of Emirates Policy Centre (EPC) and Dr Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
In the opening address, Dr Al Ketbi said ADSD is taking a leap to a new era of think tank’s work in the region to facilitate the work of decision-makers in a less vague and complicated environment. “To this end, ADSD seeks to develop and diversify meth-odologies of analysing key strategic security, defence, political, economic, social and cultural issues; disentangle their interaction and entanglement; grasp their dynamics and causes and predict their trajectories, impacts and outcomes,†she added.
She noted that EPC seeks to present an innovative model to understand the international and regional geostrategic and geopolitical landscape, present a new approach to the mechanisms of designing, implementing and assessing public policies in the security and defense fields as well as confronting social, political and economic dilemmas, such as identity, integration, social trust and development.