Three days of policy dialogue, scientific exchange and cooperation on media and information literacy, 18–20 October 2026.
Cairo, Egypt. The III MIL & Global Understanding Conference: Peace for All will take place in Cairo from 18 to 20 October 2026, after being postponed from its original April dates. The conference is organised by the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in cooperation with the League of Arab States, the UNESCO MIL Alliance, the UNITWIN MILID Network and the MIL Institute.
The new dates place the conference within UNESCO’s Global MIL Week 2026, It Takes a Village: Advancing Media and Information Literacy for the People, as the designated regional event for the Arab States. This connects the Cairo meeting with a worldwide movement for media and information literacy, and builds on the Cairo 2024 Declaration for Global Understanding and Peace and the Barcelona 2025 MIL Action Agenda.
Three days, three spaces
- Day 1, MIL Global Policy Forum: AI for Peace and Global Understanding. Policymakers, experts, educators and youth representatives discuss peace education, disinformation and hate speech, algorithmic governance, and technological innovation and global citizenship.
- Day 2, Official Congress of the Global MIL Scientific Association and MILID Cooperation Hub. Six research tracks share the day with the cooperation of the UNITWIN MILID Network and the UNESCO Chairs on MIL. The day also covers MILID Screen, an international hub for MIL audiovisual work, and the MILID Mediterranean Academy, a Euro-Mediterranean cooperation platform for MIL.
- Day 3, Cultural Programme and Closing. A Young Peace Ambassadors session, a visit to the Grand Egyptian Museum and the closing session.
How to take part
Registration is free and open to all through the conference website. Those who wish to present at the Congress should submit a single extended abstract of up to 600 words by 1 October 2026. Accepted contributions go through peer review and are published in the proceedings book of the Global MIL Congress. The conference languages are English and Arabic, and Spanish and French submissions are accepted for the Congress.
More information and registration: https://milglobalunderstanding.org
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