Employed in the institute's research activities is the so-called "Index of Dialogue" which enables the propensity towards conflict in any given area to be assessed, including the risk of it escalating to the "hotspot" stage.

On 10 November 2008, in Hofburg under the patronage of UNESCO and with the participation of the Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, the WPF "Dialogue of Civilizations" summit took place; a meeting of around 40 experts, politicians and public figures from various countries.

Currently, taking part in the forum's activities are representatives of international NGOs, the world's media, and research centres of North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

The Financial Times remarked that despite the expectation of witnessing a festival of pro-Kremlin propaganda, the Rhodes Forum looks like any other international conference and gives the impression of being like a mini Davos.

Among the participants were Eurosceptics, current president of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman (who has appeared at the forum on 9 occasions) and the ex-president Václav Klaus, and former head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The UN that would inspire this kind of leadership should ensure equity, with leading nations and power centres representing different regions of the world, sitting at the Security Council as permanent members.

The Security Council of the United Nations must be democratised, in view of new global realities, in the interest of peace.”[5] Another topic became the development of high technology and economy digitalisation.

Taking part in the discussions on this subject were experts such as President of InfoWatch Group Natalya Kaspersky and Rob van Kranenburg, Co-Founder of Bricolabs and the Founder of Council, at the largest independent #IoT Thinktank.