Fostering World negotiations for today's future

CEMUNE enables stakeholders to prioritise deep and continuing cooperation and tip the balance in favour of humanity.

What we stand for

CEMUNE enables stakeholders to prioritise deep and continuing cooperation and tip the balance in favour of humanity. We use our knowledge and experience in multilateral negotiations to help all the parties involved in achieving success in these processes—whoever they are and wherever they are accomplish effective, impactful outcomes.

We do this by providing a better understanding of the key skills needed to reach agreements in highly complex multilateral settings.

Our work

Our work to provide capacity building, advice and knowledge on the core issues around negotiation management and multilateral summits is central to CEMUNE’s mission to enable stakeholders to prioritise deep and continuing cooperation to tip the balance in favour of humanity.

7 dimensions

Our blueprint for effective
negotiation management

Our Expertise

Our central knowledge repository on negotiation management based on practical experience and rigorous academic research.

Explore our research based hub filled with valuable resources, data library, news, podcasts, interviews and everything that's multilateral negotiations.

Featured Projects

Empowering UNCCD Parties: CEMUNE Hosts Advanced Negotiation Training in Istanbul

CEMUNE provided the COP27 Presidency negotiation process management support on the road to Sharm el-Sheikh

Advisory Workshop for COP26 Presidency Team

Online Training Programme for Strengthening Female Leadership in the Public Service

Workshop on negotiations with the Slovenian Climate Change Team

Some of our partners

Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

GIZ: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

What people think

Like the proverb that says, prevention is better than cure! CEMUNE made a great response by organizing the informal workshop previous to the COP26 in Glasgow. I felt personally the application of s...

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Conservation International Senior Fellow

I and my team benefited from Kai Monheim's lessons learned from previous presidencies (...) it has in no small ways contributed to the success of paris

Antoine Michon
Former Head of Environment and Climate Division, French Foreign Ministry

There is definitely an urgent need to learn more systematically from past negotiation processes to make them more successful in the future.

Yvo de Boer
Former head of the UNFCCC

This is a great initiative, which I fully support. In multilateral negotiations, the quality of the process is as important as the substance in order to reach significant agreements.

Patricia Espinosa
Former acting UNFCCC Executive Secretary, President COP16

This centre represents a great opportunity to provide negotiation chairs with facilitation best practices, and thereby accelerate the crafting of multilateral agreements on trade and other global i...

Pascal Lamy
Former Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Negotiations cannot be improvised if they are to be successful. An understanding of the rules and dynamics inherent in any multilateral negotiation are as important as knowledge of the substance. A...

Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC

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CEMUNE is currently looking for partners, volunteers and donors to promote our work and further our mission! If we have aroused your interest or you would like to know more about our work, we are looking forward to your contact.

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