The main organizations behind the event are the Institute for Public Planning, the Institute of Contemporary Development and Yaroslavl Demidov State University.

Global Policy Forum will continue the discussion of the role of the modern state in ensuring security and stability in the modern world that began in 2009 at the International Conference “The Modern State and Global Security.” The conference was held on September 14, 2009 in Yaroslavl with the participation of President Medvedev, Prime Minister of France F. Fillon and Prime Minister of Spain J.L. Rodriguez Zapatero.

Global Policy Forum will focus on four sections:

 – New Challenges and the Concept of International Law;
 – The State as an Instrument of Technological Modernization;
 – Regional Systems of Global Security;
 – Standards of Democracy and the Diversity of Democratic Experiences.

The languages of Global Policy Forum are Russian, English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

The first day of the Forum will open with an hour-long plenary session, after which the sections’ meetings will begin. The second day will be dedicated to scheduled plenary meetings as well as to an intersectional meeting on the European security treaty.

The accreditation of mass media for Global Policy Forum "The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency" is open from 12.07.2010 (10 a.m. Moscow time) to 16.08.2010 (7 p.m. Moscow time).

The accreditation for Global Policy Forum is open for representatives of Russian and foreign mass media.