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chiloopsyn.org Wednesday, March 6, 2019 • 29 Adar I 5779 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Chicago Loop Synagogue How much bias is there in the media against Israel today in the United States and around the world? What does the press get right about Israel? How does reporting about Israel and the conflict shape global opinion going forward? Join us as we hear from Alison Pure-Slovin, Director, Midwest Region of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Moran Birman, Consul for Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] , Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, and Steve Dishler, Assistant Vice President, International & Public Affairs for the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. $15 cost for a kosher lunch to attend. To RSVP or for more information, contact the Chicago Loop Synagogue office at (312) 346-7370 or email loopadmn@chiloopsyn.org.

state.gov ***THE DAILY PUBLIC SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 12, 2019 Giuda image fromExcerpt:ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MICHELLE GIUDA [JB - see ]1:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Giuda delivers remarks at the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Lunar New Year event, at the White House. (MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS MARIE ROYCE9:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Royce chairs the Cultural Heritage Committee Meeting, at the Department of State. (CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

Sohaela Amiri, pacificcouncil.org uncaptioned image from article Nelson Mandela may have died on December 5, 2013, but his legacy lives on. He changed the image of South Africa from that of a country despised for its atrocities to a “Rainbow Nation” (Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s term) that protects and promotes human rights and democratic values. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated that “the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) established under Mandela’s leadership remains a model for achieving justice in societies confronting a legacy of human rights abuses.”Mandela’s government enhanced its image, legitimacy, and international influence through the power of “attraction and co-option rather than coercion,” to borrow Joseph Nye’s terms. In the late 1980s, when political figures in the United States were still insisting that Mandela’s greatest contribution was “where he stood in the standoff between Washington and Moscow,” millions of Western citizens insisted that the South Afri..

www2.fundsforngos.org Image (not entry) from, with caption: U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur updated their cover photo. December 20, 2017 Deadline: 15 July 2019 The Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur of the U.S. Department of State has announced that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Small Grants Program.The Embassy has particular interest in projects that have a strong link to the United States and promote the teaching of English, benefit under-served populations, promote entrepreneurship, and promote the exchange of ideas between the United States and Malaysia including but not limited to the following areas of focus:Education and EnglishEmpowering women and youthTechnology and innovationStrengthen economic prosperityMedia literacy and media freedomCivic engagementInterfaith programsCombating extremismThe Embassy will only consider grants that have a significant American component or aspect in their proposal.Funding InformationMost grants conside..

from linkedin Katarzyna Rybka-Iwańska • 1st Head, Political and Economic Section, Embassy of Poland in Israel 1d This week I had the pleasure of helping students of the Meitarim High School in Raanana (some 15 km from Tel Aviv) in their preparations to the inter-school project "United Nations Conference Model". In the project, teams representing several Israeli schools play roles of different UN Security Members and present their positions at a "global" gathering. Poland is the UNSC non-permanent member 2018-2019. Meitarim students play the role of of our country in the project and wanted to know everything about our positions on global challenges. They didn't accept easy, "diplomatic" answers. They really WANTED TO KNOW and demanded clear YES or NO answers. There were a lot of WHYs. I was grilled! I really love this curiosity of young bright minds and wish that they never cease to ask shrewd questions. They will certainly rock the world with them. And again: I love my public d..

dailycaller.com, 02/06/2019 Israel reactivated their “virtual embassy” on Tuesday, a program aimed at encouraging dialogue with the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – all Arab states of the Persian Gulf except Iraq. The embassy functions through a foreign ministry-run Twitter account named “Israel in the GCC.” The account was originally launched in July 2013 and had a seven-month run before ceasing operations. View image on Twitter إسرائيل في الخليج ✔@IsraelintheGCC يسرنا أن نعلن عن إعادة إطلاق صفحة "إسرائيل في الخليج" بهدف تعزيز الحوار بين إسرائيل وشعوب الخليج. نأمل أن تسهم هذه السفارة الافتراضية في تعميق التفاهم بين شعوب دول الخليج وشعب إسرائيل في مختلف المجالات 3949:01 AM - Feb 5, 2019 603 people are talking about thisTwitter Ads info and privacy “We are pleased to announce the re-launch of the ‘Israel in the Gulf’ page aimed at promoting dialogue between Israel and the Gulf peoples,” the govern..

Kyra Taubel-Bruce, gilmanprogram, February 9, 2019 If you had asked me three years ago what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said a journalist. My five-year plan was to graduate, get a job at a local news organization, and to seek the truth and report it.Receiving the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship changed almost all of that by allowing me to study abroad in the Czech Republic in 2017. I studied mass media, politics, and diplomacy at Charles University in Prague where I learned how to translate my passion for journalism into public diplomacy [JB emphasis] and global communications.In class I studied the impacts of authoritarian regimes and censorship, visited the Radio Free Europe headquarters, met with Czech diplomats, and studied the political history of Central and Eastern Europe. These experiences helped to shape my academic interests, but it was the time I spent studying diplomacy with a former diplomat and at the U.S. Embassy’s American Center that completely reshaped ..

en.wikipedia.org Excerpt: Public diplomacyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to search hideThis article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2011)This article or section possibly contains synthesis of material which does not verifiably mention or relate to the main topic.(January 2011)In international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is the communication with and dissemination of propaganda to the general public of foreign nations to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influence. As the international order has changed over the 20th century, so has the practice of public diplomacy. Its practitioners use a variety of instruments and methods ranging from personal contac..

Book review by Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2019; original article contains additional illustrations and links JB personal note: When (as I later found out) the Chernobyl disaster occurred, I traveled by motor car to eastern Poland (in the Chernobyl "radioactive" zone), invited to give a talk on the United States at a local organization, in my capacity as a "public diplomacy" American diplomat. I arrived at this rather obscure location earlier than expected, and to kill time I took a walk, which led me to a local cemetery, for perhaps an hour ... BTW, my talk (thanks to radioactivity?) was, far beyond my expectations, not badly received. The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst nuclear disaster. As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. A fu..

https://scholarship.shu.edu/diplomacy-syllabi/288/ image from The Art and Science of NegotiationTatsushi Arai PhD Sergio de MelloDocument TypeGraduate SyllabusDateSpring 2019SchoolDiplomacyCourse NumberDIPL 6104Course DescriptionNegotiation is a transactional exchange between two or more parties trying to achieve their respective goals by finding a mutually acceptable way of resolving their differences. Negotiation takes place in all aspects of social life, from family to community, business, politics, and international diplomacy.This class is an introduction to theories and methods of negotiation with a specific focus on intergroup and international relations. Moreover, this class covers selected methods of public diplomacy and conflict management in which an application of negotiation skills is necessary and useful. These methods contribute to the development of culturally-informed peace processes as well as broad-based peacebuilding platforms capable of sustaining and expanding the ..