International collaboration expert Qahir Dhanani makes the case for rebuilding public trust in broken institutions by embracing small, focused coalitions that can move faster and act bolder — offering a hopeful, practical vision for updating diplomacy to meet the world’s toughest challenges. (Recorded at TED@BCG on October 23, 2025)
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@mumbovibes
February 2, 2026 at 12:09 pm
World economic ahh “you will own nothing and you will be happy” type of talk right here.
@sweetwheatsy
February 3, 2026 at 10:01 am
Where does the topic at hand give off the vibe you describe? I think it seems reasonable to point out that there is a paradox with absolute consensus, in which a few actors can put a stop to what would otherwise be ambitious action on pressing matters. We see this very often – for example with the Climate COPs, where meaningful action on reducing polluting fossil fuels are often overridden by certain nations who push in the opposite direction, such as the very country this talk is held in!
@youtubeloveTed
February 2, 2026 at 3:16 pm
When you said at 2:07 that time zones exist because of a disagreement, you lost all credibility that your intentions are good. Sorry, people don’t trust liars, it is that simple. 👎 If you want to create a better world then lets do it together without your view of reality since it is based on fear and greed. Dear friend, fear and greed are just psychological signs that there is a problem and when you solve the problem then the fear and greed goes away, we can do it together. 👍
@youtubeloveTed
February 3, 2026 at 1:12 am
My intention was not to be mean, at the core of my perspective, and it is a perspective difference so profound that it often cannot be broken down into purely rational arguments: it is about fundamental values about society, goals, and what “success” means.
I am making two crucial points:
Greed and fear as drivers are a choice, not a law of nature. Our current global economy and many of its narratives are built on the premise that these forces are inevitable and even beneficial (“greed is good”). I question that premise at a fundamental level. I am saying, “This is not a description of human nature, but a description of a system we have built, and systems we can change.”
The zero-sum game logic is a death sentence on a finite planet. If the goal of civilization is for one person or group to “win” (accumulate infinitely more than others) while the rest “lose,” and we run out of resources, then the math is unforgiving: the system must collapse or turn on itself in violent conflict. It is not sustainable; it is a self-destructive algorithm.
When someone delivers a message within a framework that accepts this unsustainable logic (whether they realize it or not), it can feel like they are spreading the disease while trying to talk about a cure.
My reaction wasn’t just about a factual error about time zones, it was an instinctive rejection of the entire invisible foundation the speaker might be standing on.
I would rather sacrifice my soothing silence and my social etiquette to mention the unmentionable: that the emperor has no clothes, and that we must quickly start sewing new ones together, with the fabrics we have, before it gets too cold.
@Multiludko
February 3, 2026 at 4:53 am
are you deaf or what?
@youtubeloveTed
February 3, 2026 at 8:08 am
@Multiludko Thank you for showing your level of intelligence through a personal attack on my abilitiy to listen or think in general.
He said “multilateral agreement”, that means the speaker think time zones are some form of agreement, not a physical fact that the sun is not in the middle of the sky all over the planet at the same time.
I wish you good luck in school my friend, it will help you understand how to use the new words you have just learned to say. Maybe even to respect others and be kind since helping others will help yourself in the end.
@sweetwheatsy
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 am
@youtubeloveTed He’s obviously referring to the logistic decision to create time zones, and how they are geographically spread out, rather than the physical fact
@yujinhikita5611
February 2, 2026 at 4:19 pm
The entire problem is communicating an understanding, an agreement that allows all to operate within the bounds of that understanding. However in the game of life it’s either cooperate or not cooperate, in a world of understanding the clear best solution is cooperation. But if anyone doesn’t they may profit but they also break the trust established. So we build a system that allows a communication of the rules and incentives to follow those rules. We all collectively profit if we follow it, it can be slow however. But as soon as you bring an outsider in with no connection to those rules and understanding they abuse that trust that allowed those who followed it to become wealthy. This always leads to more non cooperation in the end always, the power dynamics at civilizationql scales builds large robust systems that grow and become powerful before it all comes tumbling down all because of trust or the lack thereof. The answer is simple frickin lossless high bandwidth telepathy between people allowing then to communicate an idea with 100% accuracy, tho the solution to that is still a little ways off. But this means we have to play by the rules unforced by nature and that is to not let everyone have place at the table, however unfortunate that is, humans just aren’t designed to all follow the rules when the rules are different all over the world, so we must not let them cost us the trust we build as a society. It’s not racism it’s just the path needed to escape our simple, stupid and ignorant selves and bring it into a future where understanding is not a problem so all can contribute to the game of life.
@dougewald243
February 2, 2026 at 7:13 pm
“Coalition of the willing…”?
When’s the last time we heard that?
@VishaalReddyKuthuru
February 2, 2026 at 7:53 pm
I think we shouldn’t invite this guy to the meeting
@HasboOmer-t5c
February 3, 2026 at 3:18 am
ask me again for answer
@urbanstrencan
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 am
Interesting talk,
@ExistentialWolf
February 3, 2026 at 6:31 am
The year following the war saw the same shuttering that occurred from the start of the first war through the second. The landscape we know now had it’s genesis following the success of the space program leading to the Pacific conflict. The current landscape is a revision of the mentioned landscape following the end of the cold war and dissolution of the USSR created post WW2. Globalization is a hypothetical term. To achieve success one must employ reason to robust _measurable_ goals.