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RE:THINK DIALOGUE 2045

Global Project for Post-Bloc Thinking — A Space for Thinking When Speaking Becomes Difficult Yet Remains Necessary

Overview

RETHINK DIALOGUE 2045 is an independent international initiative aimed at creating a space for new thinking about the future, where representatives of various intellectual traditions, nations, and cultures formulate an alternative, non-conflictual vision of the world by the middle of the twenty-first century.

Format

This is not a forum or a conference, but a prolonged visionary process where participants freely exchange ideas and test them for compatibility, observing the Chatham House rule.

Mission

To create an intellectual and practical environment in which states, communities, universities, cooperatives, and entrepreneurs from participating countries will be able to regain agency, offer the world alternative models of cooperation, and build new balances based on honesty, conscience, and multi-directionality.

Strategic Goals
  • Restoration of Trust: Sustainable trust between regions and cultures, counteracting fragmentation and sanctions-driven logic
  • Shared Civilizational Perspective: Common language for analysis enabling different traditions to complement one another
  • Transition to Project Structures: Chains of joint work where entrepreneurs, cooperatives, and cities become equal architects of the new world order
  • Formation of Personnel Core: A network of leaders capable of thinking to the horizon of 2045
Methods
1. Reverse Horizon Thinking — participants develop the desired image of the world in 2045 and rewind back to determine necessary foundations
2. SARAFAN Methodology — translates visions and meanings into cooperative value chains, project models, and institutional formats
Shanghai 2026

Date: June 17–19, 2026

Format: Three-day think tank summit

Participants: 20–25 strategists, visionaries, and practitioners from the Primary Civilizational Belt — selected by invitation, professional and regional balance

Programme Structure:
Day Theme
Day 1 Concept Setting: context, challenges, key terms, methodology, two civilizational belts
Day 2 From Concepts to Architectures: models of compatibility, SARAFAN Alliance principles, project verticals
Day 3 Building the 2045 Roadmap: reverse planning, first projects, frameworks for reporting
Objectives:
1. Form a network of leaders and practitioners from the Primary belt
2. Build a common vision of 2045 and identify priorities for 2026–2030
3. Identify the first cooperative value chains
4. Test SARAFAN digital platform as a tool for cooperation and research networks
Principles

Chatham House rule. No press. No declarations. No political decisions — only intellectual and conceptual foundation for subsequent practice.

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SARAFAN Alliance

An Architecture of Meaning, Coordination, and Practice

Overview

SARAFAN Alliance is not a power structure or an ideology, but an architecture of meaning, coordination, and practice that enables civilizations to interact without domination. It operates as a hub of trust between entrepreneurs, cooperatives, cities, universities, think tanks, and cultural institutions.

Four-Level Architecture
Level What Operates Here Key Tool
Meaning Common language formation; semantic compatibility testing RETHINK DIALOGUE 2045
Compatibility Cooperative value chains; charters of fair exchange SARAFAN Alliance network
Coordination Institutional tools, platforms, labs SARAFAN digital platform
Practice Specific projects: transport, agriculture, education, culture Project chains
Operational Regulators (at all levels):
  • Measure — balance of risks and opportunities
  • Memory — historical continuity and cultural trust
  • Conscience — internal norm preventing exploitation
Key Tools
  • SARAFAN digital platform: social network + cooperative marketplace + educational environment + research platform
  • SARAFAN Festival — cultural-civilizational venue for demonstrating practices
  • Trade Chain Support Fund — reduces risks, stimulates cooperation
  • Scientific-Practical Programmes — DARPA-modeled applied programmes translating strategic challenges into concrete projects
Ivan Sisnev3 May 2026