Stichting Building the Bridge Foundation : Dutch Foreign Policy Think Tank Urges Trump, Xi, Putin to Open Crisis Talks Now

The Hague-based foundation says its January 2026 Nobel Peace Prize nomination urged earnest dialogue, restraint, humanitarian action, and renewed major-power cooperation.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Building the Bridge Foundation today urged Presidents Trump, Xi, and Putin to open immediate crisis talks and create a permanent Great-Power Bridge Forum for Peace, warning that global confrontation is nearing a breaking point.

The appeal follows the Foundation's Jan. 28, 2026, Nobel Peace Prize nomination of the three leaders—a direct challenge to keep channels open, show restraint, ensure humanitarian access, and share responsibility as global tensions rise.

"Time is short for the 2026 prize consideration—but no worries! We'll renominate them next January if warranted," says founder and chairman Abraham A. van Kempen.

The proposed forum would create a standing channel to restore military and nuclear-risk hotlines; resume arms-control, cyber-stability, and AI-risk talks; support humanitarian corridors and prisoner exchanges; protect academic, cultural, religious, youth, scientific, and journalistic exchanges; and include smaller nations and affected communities.

"They do not need to agree on everything to begin," van Kempen added. "Silence, escalation, and humiliation are not strategies. The first step is to keep talking. Right now they're stuck in their ruts, neither winning nor losing, wasting lives and treasure."

The Foundation urged renewed support for open, responsible trade, warning that conflict, sanctions, protectionism, supply-chain bottlenecks, and policy uncertainty are raising costs and eroding trust.

Van Kempen emphasizes: "Stabilizing trade can ease pressure while adapting globalization to current security, labor, and environmental realities."

The Foundation urged restoring hotlines, resuming risk-reduction talks, opening humanitarian corridors, arranging prisoner exchanges, protecting people-to-people contacts, establishing verification mechanisms, and renewing trade cooperation.

"Build the bridge before dialogue ceases," van Kempen said, adding, "We're clear on that, right?"

About the Bridge

Since 2015, the Building the Bridge Foundation has been a Netherlands-based geopolitical policy think tank in The Hague, working to turn conflict into dialogue and rivalry into responsibility through practical dialogue, humanitarian concern, reciprocity, solidarity, justice, liberty, and peace.

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Abraham A. van Kempen
Founder and Chairman
Building the Bridge Foundation
The Hague, Netherlands
Email: abraham@buildingthebridgefoundation.com 
Website: www.buildingthebridgefoundation.com 

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