Valdai Club

Recognising our diversities as a great strength of our species-being allows us to consider non-antagonistic development opportunities by rekindling empathy and solidarity in our relationships. We possess the means to afford all of humanity a quality of life that is freed from humiliation and despair, writes Rasigan Maharajh for the 21st Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

It is important that efforts be made in a more tangible and practical way to bolster our common humanity should we seek a shared destiny. Drawing upon the uneven distribution of knowledge competences, it could prove useful for the BRICS+ to utilise their capacities and capabilities in science and technology to provide information and technical solutions on a more socialised basis, Rasigan Maharajh writes.


The original international collaboration between the large and growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China has evolved and expanded.

Scientific progress through the global knowledge commons has afforded us the evolutionary capacity to create technological solutions to endure the challenges presented by our ecology and to secure our very survival. But we need to recognise the combined yet uneven distribution of productive capabilities which excludes the global majority from sharing in the benefits of our collective ingenuity, writes Rasigan Maharajh, Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa). This article is based on his presentation at the Valdai Club’s Youth Conference as part of the World Youth Festival

It is in our hands to improve, expand, and consolidate Russia-Africa Relations. The five foundations of historical, political, economic, scientific and academic, and security offer us a good-enough pathway towards our common and shared futures, writes Rasigan Maharajh in the run-up to the Russia-Africa conference of the Valdai Club.

We should creatively destroy that which is ill-suited to our real requirements, and which persistently reproduces the hegemony of an absolute minority of people through advancing the narrow interests of a dominant fraction of capital in one country out of the multitude that constitute the world systems and the UN, writes Rasigan Maharajh, Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa) for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.