Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Interest of	Mark Medish
Member of	Climate Action Against Disinformation
Sponsor of	M100 Sanssouci Colloquium
Sponsored by	Australia/Department/Foreign Affairs and Trade, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, British Council, Chatham House, Council of Europe, European Commission, European Forum Alpbach, Facebook, German Federal Foreign Office, Global Affairs Canada, Google, Hewlett Foundation, International Republican Institute, Microsoft, National Democratic Institute, Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations, Robert Bosch Foundation, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, UK/Home Office, UNESCO, US/Department/Homeland Security, US/Department/State, United States Institute of Peace
Membership	•  George Weidenfeld •  Peter Baldwin •  Roland Berger •  Mark Bergman •  Mathias Döpfner •  Stuart Fiertz •  Francis Finlay •  Charles Guthrie •  Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg •  Sasha Havlicek •  Jim Hoagland •  Helena Kennedy •  Serra Kidar •  John Kremer •  Michael Lewis •  Shirley Lord Rosenthal •  Lynn Nesbit •  Farah Pandith •  Patricia Rawlings •  Carol Saper •  Lawrence Saper •  Gil Shiva •  Timothy Garton Ash •  Richard Barrett •  August Hanning •  Wolfgang Ischinger •  Pauline Neville-Jones •  Ana Palacio •  Hella Pick •  Jonathan Powell •  Louis Schweitzer •  Adair Turner •  Richard Barrett •  August Hanning •  Dilwar Hussain •  Jytte Klausen •  Hella Pick •  Magnus Ranstorp •  Sasha Havlicek •  Stuart C. Fiertz •  Ronald Grierson •  J. Adair Turner •  Pierre Keller •  David Simon •  Ed Williams •  Stephen Zinser •  Konstantin von Unger •  Kerry Healey •  Chris Rice •  Christoph Gottschalk •  Katrin Rohmann •  Cecilie Rohwedder •  Evelyn Stern
Spooky anti-democratic think-tank that is "uniquely able to turn research and analysis into evidence-based policy and action" by local authorities, central governments and multilateral institutions.

This think tank is an important deep state hub - more analysis really needed

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue is a global public-private partnership which shapes government policy. As such, it places policy control into the hands of alleged 'philanthropists', global corporations, NGOs and civil society organisation. Iain Davis defined it as "essentially an anti-democratic organisation that serves to undermine purported democracies.democracies."

Overview

ISD: Mythbusting migration concerns: 'Ireland is full'

The institute brings together a range of the elite policy planning activities of Lord Weidenfeld, who is also listed in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book. All but one of its 2009 trustees had connections with the banking and finance sector including with hedge funds.

According to itself, "The ISD is uniquely able to turn research and analysis into evidence-based policy and action. [. . .] We formulate and advocate policy solutions, and provide local authorities, central governments and multilateral institutions with the data, expertise and technical support to deliver evidence-based policy and programming."

Beyond partnerships with institutions like the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum, ISD has spearheaded and led inter-governmental initiatives in the domains of counter-extremism and digital regulation (censorship).

The think tank has as it purpose to analyse and trial "innovative solutions to the rising tide of extremism, hate, populism and polarisation, which is defined broadly as all opinions that go against ruling class agendas, from opposition to COVID-policies to "anti-climate efforts".

During the War on Terror, the Institute focused much of its activities on the question of Islam and its role in Western societies. The Institute provides the home for a number of Weidenfeld's other initiatives, such as the Club of Three.

Climate censorship unit

Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, the ISD's Digital Policy Lab (DPL) is an networking hub of governments, corporations, foundations and interest groups "focused on charting the regulatory and policy path forward to prevent and counter disinformation, hate speech, extremism and terrorism online."

As a hidden middleman for government activities, DPL works with a range of collaborators including the European Climate Foundation, Greenpeace UnEarthed and DeSmog, to developing "cutting-edge tools" tailored to audiences across the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, the UK and the United States. The purpose of these tools is to "combat malign influence campaigns, disinformation and broader anti-climate efforts, by giving the sector "in-depth and ongoing data from the digital space."

The objective of this work is to:

• Build a system for data collection and analysis which can support key stakeholders in their advocacy, public education, policymaking and strategic communications around climate.
• Provide live trend analysis on anti-climate narratives and influencer networks, particularly in the run-up to key events (e.g. COP26, national elections).
• Develop and drive execution of strategies to expose, disrupt and mitigate coordinated influence campaigns around climate.

Twitter censorship "research"

"Research" by ISD and CASM Technology using digital analysis technology found a major and sustained spike in antisemitic posts on Twitter since the company’s takeover by Elon Musk on October 27, 2022.

The method used was: "Our approach uses an innovative algorithmic architecture to classify Tweets which could be interpreted as ‘plausibly antisemitic’, where at least one reasonable interpretation of a message’s meaning fell within the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. [. . .] [C]oded language of ‘globalists’, ‘puppeteers’ and ‘financiers’ [has been] interpreted as plausibly antisemitic."

Iain Davis pointed out that "'Reasonable interpretation' appears to be key here. Primarily because that 'interpretation' doesn’t appear to be reasonable at all. The 'methodology' is to flag certain words in tweets, call them antisemitic without any discernible justification, and then claim this as evidence of 'hate speech'..It offers this gibberish as 'research' to its readers."

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

Full article: M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

The ISD is behind the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, a media "Davos" that brings together Europe's most prominent journalists and editors together with counterparts from the "East".

People

Trustees as of 2009 and 2023, plus some collaborators.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed
Sasha Havlicek	CEO/Director	January 2006

 

Known members

20 of the 48 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Timothy Garton Ash	UK historian, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years.
Richard Barrett	MI5/MI6 "terror expert" who writes for corporate media
Roland Berger	German entrepreneur and possible deep state actor
Mathias Döpfner	CEO of mightiest media group in Germany and Europe, Axel Springer SE, member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and other transatlantic networks, most notably Atlantik-Brücke. Became billionaire after receiving gift from elderly widow.
Ronald Grierson	Spooky financier/businessman
Charles Guthrie	UK Army's Chief of the General Staff 1994-1997
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg	Born with silver spoon as scion of the zu Guttenberg family, but blew his political career in 2011 after academic plagiarism was discovered. Since then has stayed in spooky think-tanks.
August Hanning	Former BND chief
Sasha Havlicek	CEO/Director of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Jim Hoagland	US journalist whose Deep state connections include the CFR, Hoover Institution, Institute for Strategic Dialogue and 4 visits to the Bilderberg
Wolfgang Ischinger	Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference
Helena Kennedy	Scottish barrister, broadcaster, member of the House of Lords.
Pauline Neville-Jones	BBC governor, Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Ana Palacio	Spanish politician, member of various spooky groups, signed the People’s Vaccine, attended 10 meetings of the Brussels Forum
Magnus Ranstorp
Patricia Rawlings	UK Conservative Party politician, Le Cercle
Louis Schweitzer	Second generation Triple Bilderberger Swiss President of Le Siècle
David Simon
Adair Turner	Front man for George Soros-initiatives.
George Weidenfeld	Bilderberger Member of the House of Lords whose name appeared in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book. Suspected UK deep state operative.

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Australia/Department/Foreign Affairs and Trade	Australian Foreign Affairs department
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.
British Council	The British government's cultural propaganda body.
Chatham House	A key organ of the UK Deep state
Council of Europe	IGO. Cannot make laws, but makes treaties. Accused of institutional (revolving door) corruption. Appears to bribe European & transcontinental countries.
European Commission	The executive body of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing day-to-day business.
European Forum Alpbach	Conference "connecting international decision-makers from all sectors of society with an interested audience and committed young people".
Facebook	The world's most popular social network, with over 1,000,000,000 users in 2014.
German Federal Foreign Office	The German Foreign Ministry
Global Affairs Canada	Canadian foreign affairs department that assisted with A Spreading Plague, the 2019 pandemic planning exercise at the MSC
Google	Global Internet/Skynet conglomerate
Hewlett Foundation	Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
International Republican Institute	Has been tied to many covert plans to install US-favored governments. Will promote "free, fair, transparent democratic elections", but in such a way that it assures that power goes to the elites and not to the people.
Microsoft	Started in 1975 with Paul Allen, Bill Gates developed Microsoft from a operating system maker of computers into one of the most prolific companies of all time, valued over $1 trillion, 3rd most valuable in the world. MS has over a billion in fines from corruption, mass surveillance violations & tax evasion. MS has market shares in dozens of markets, leading in the Platformization-epidemic of the 2010s started by big tech. It was the first partner in the NSA-PRISM program.
National Democratic Institute
Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs	A significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative.
Omidyar Network	Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.
Robert Bosch Foundation
Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
UK/Home Office	The UK governmental department that is responsible for policy issues surrounding immigration, passports, drugs, crime, the police and "counter-terrorism".
UNESCO
US/Department/Homeland Security	Planned by the same group who planned the 9/11 attacks, and carried out in their wake, the DoHS is a large department which replaced the existing domestic security, disaster planning and management functions of the US government.
US/Department/State	Set up in 1789, the US State Department is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministry of other countries.
United States Institute of Peace	The Orwellian named Institute of Peace has close ties to the MICC

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:British extremists are importing tactics from the US hard right. Their target? Family drag shows	Article	22 June 2023	Tim Squirrell	The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has identified a new terror threat in this article published by Tim Squirrell, its head of communications, in the Guardian.
Document:MPs given guide to spotting conspiracy theories	Article	10 May 2024	Marianna Spring Jennifer McKiernan	Penny Mordaunt has commissioned a booklet for MPs on conspiracy theories.

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