The Australian Risk Policy Institute (‘ARPI’) wishes to make a contribution to resolve the situation facing Ukraine, in the context of Europe and the world, by approaching today’s situation differently, and proposing a new strategy, based on Eastern European-centric thinking, rather than only on Ukrainecentric thinking, thus viewing the situation in its totality, essential for an agreed and lasting outcome.

The essence of ARPI’s approach, titled Strategic Risk Policy®, centres around identification and protection against sovereign vulnerabilities including exposures, dependencies and assumptions. Thereby reducing existential threat of rapid deterioration and enabling nations to work towards enhanced resilience, sustainability and if necessary, capacity for rapid recovery.

ARPI is a not-for-profit, non-political, professional think-tank and educator promoting paradigm change by leaders to optimise informed and pre-emptive hence effective decision-making, within the strategic context of today’s transformative and disruptive world.

ARPI visualises a solution embracing eight Strategic Risk Policy® Pillars:

1. Convening of a powerful and public intervention by the only two national leaders who can make an immediate difference, namely, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and President Recep Erdogan, Republic of Turkey;

2. Recognising that this conflict poses an immediate and existential threat to humanity, so now is the right timing for intervention to occur. Delay could be catastrophic;

3. Parties implementing a ceasefire for a period of three months to allow details to be agreed;

4. Solution must be broader than military and territorial interests;

5. Solution must cover issues of territorial integrity, national sovereignty, population alignment, food, water and energy;

6. Solution being intrinsic to the protection and prosperity of Europe must be underwritten and endorsed by all nation states involved;

7. Noting that Strategic Risk Policy® promotes transition as critical to public policy change; and

8. Success in this region, in a European context, may be advanced as a potential global model. ARPI can elaborate further and participate in a solution as outlined above, coming from a neutral, innovative and humanitarian perspective.

ARPI contact is Tony Charge, Chairman.