Public diplomacy

youtube.com Israel's Foreign Affairs Min.Published on Jan 14, 2019 Confronting Online Hate: Tech and Government in Conversation Noam Katz, Senior Deputy DG for Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis], MFA

diplomatmagazine.nl For the first time Diplomat Magazine and the Diplomatic Council shall present the Global Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis]Award, in Frankfurt. The award constitute a recognition of the efforts of heads of diplomatic missions and other dignitaries to promote strategic diplomatic engagement vis-à-vis state as well as non-state actors.The Public Diplomacy Award will recognise both top diplomats and other members of the international community; in charge of the selection of the laureates are a group of members of the diplomatic corps and academia.The award consists of state-of-the-art hand-made prism with the crafted name of the recipient. He or she becomes an honourable member of the Diplomatic Council. The Diplomat Magazine and the Diplomatic Council will promote the accolade on the international stage.The Global Public Diplomacy Award will be launched during a festive gala in Frankfurt on February first. It will presented by H.E. Buddhi Athauda, Ambassador of Sri Lanka..

Joel Lee, The Korea Herald When Korea’s foremost civilian ambassador, Choi Jung-wha, walked along Paris’ Champs-Elysees Avenue last year, she was struck by familiar tunes sung in Korean. Young French people belted out K-pop band BTS’ songs in Korean, to the surprise of Choi, who first landed in France in the late 1970s for her studies. Back then, Korea, much less South Korea, was barely on the mental map of an average French person. But with the country’s continuing economic and cultural ascent on the global stage, the Korean language itself, along with its modern and traditional culture, has now become all the rage for youngsters the world over. CICI President Choi Jung-wha poses with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha (left) and her husband Didier Beltoise at the Yeongsan Diplomat Award ceremony in July last year. (CICI) In an age of globalism and hyper-connectivity, public diplomacy [JB emphasis] is a realm not confined to diplomats, public figures and high-flying perso..

adaderana.lk; see also (1) (2) Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana has called on Sri Lankan diplomats to boost the image of Sri Lanka overseas through efficient and effective execution of public diplomacy [JB emphasis]. He has called on them to utilize its intrinsic brands such as Buddhism, gems, tea, spices, high-end export products and the warmth of traditional Sri Lankan hospitality. Minister Marapana made these remarks at the certificate awarding ceremony on Friday (11) of the two-week long Public Diplomacy and Media Relations training programme, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its officials in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) with a view to enhancing their public diplomacy and media relations skills. The programme was attended by the officers of the 2018 intake of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service and a group of mid-level officers serving in the Ministry. This was the first time in two decades that the Ministry organized a professional training pro..

Firas Elias, Translated by Shaimaa Shedeed, newiraqcenter.com uncaptioned image from articleExcerpt: The conclusion Iran represented one of the grand regional forces in the Middle East that has variable group of soft power elements. This is in addition to Iran’s advantages in itself which it has been seeking for investing optimally in order to promote its policy regionally and internationally. The Islamic ideology and the Shiite doctrine beside the ancient Persian civilization can be seen as success factors in the Iranian public diplomacy. [JB emphasis] In addition, Iran’s foreign policy discourse addressing the dictatorial regimes and the world arrogance powers and its support for the Palestinian issue and hostility towards Israel stood as pillars for the Iranian foreign policy in its soft invasion in the neighboring countries and the region. Meanwhile, such pillars represented pull factors for many political and military groups adopting the same concepts ad terms. On the other side, ..

Shireen M Mazari, ssii.com.pk, January 10, 2019 uncaptioned image from article As warfare has altered over the decades with the shifting of the ‘centre of gravity’ and the notion of the cold war evolving into Hybrid warfare, so diplomacy and the domain of what was referred to as ‘foreign policy” – but now is more cohesively understood as a state’s external policy – have also altered qualitatively. Just as the Gnomes of Zurich lost their relevance once Swiss banks had to provide access and data of foreign accounts, so the Mandarins sitting in the enclosed ‘foreign offices’ across the world, conducting closed-door state-to-state diplomacy, are fast becoming an anachronism. Democracy and parliaments have been a factor in challenging the Mandarins’ closed-door approach to foreign policy, but even dictatorships and monarchies have had to move beyond the old style of diplomacy conducted behind closed doors where the internal dynamics of their states were neither a foreign policy agenda item ..

audioboom.com, Jan 10, 6:40 AM Shinichi Iida image from article The Japanese prime minister is holding talks with Theresa May later. Shinzo Abe is in the UK to discuss arrangements for the Rugby World Cup in Tokyo this year, but he’s also suggested he’ll be raising Brexit with the prime minister, and the importance of avoiding a No Deal outcome. Ahead of the visit, Nick Howard speaks to Shinichi Eeda, minister of public diplomacy [JB emphasis] at the Embassy of Japan.

prnewswire.com image (posted here due to technical reasons without green background color) from Nonprofit will bring Food Rescue Hero app to "20 Cities by 2020," beginning with Cleveland, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Excerpt: WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The food-recovery nonprofit Food Rescue Hero today signed Qorvis Communications to develop and execute a robust communications campaign as part of a national expansion of its Food Rescue Hero technology. ...About Qorvis CommunicationsQorvis Communications is Publicis Groupe's public affairs and geopolitical solutions offering. Qorvis is made up of a large corps of public affairs, public diplomacy, [JB emphasis] and strategic communications strategists who employ their diverse backgrounds and skillsets to produce positive outcomes for clients. The firm engages Publicis's vast resource network to further advance client efforts around the nation, and around the world. To learn more about Qorvis, visit: http://www..

marketpulse.com On the OANDA Business Breakfast this morning, Nick Howard and Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discussed the latest on Jaguar Land Rover and Brexit. Nick also spoke with the Japanese minister for public diplomacy and media, Shinichi Iida, about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the UK. Click on the link [...] to listen to the show.

fpcj.jp, 2019.01.10 ■Yasushi Watanabe, Gaiko Vol.51 With the soft power of Western nations becoming unstable due to globalization, in an essay titled “Can Japanese diplomacy deal with universality?” in volume 51 of Gaiko, Keio University Professor Yasushi Watanabe argued that for the state of Japanese public diplomacy [JB emphasis] , “It is self-evident that the basic value desired from Japan is maintaining the ‘liberal international order.’” The reason he gave for this is that despite Japan having a population over 100 million and being the world’s third largest economy, with advanced technology, the country has no ambition towards global hegemony. Opinions toward and trust of Japan are generally positive worldwide, and Japan is even contributing to the expansion of free trade in the world In particular, in response to Japanese diplomacy being criticized as being in service to the US, Watanabe stated that due to the security environment of Japan, “It is not possible to confront the US..