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eventbrite.com AAFAA $55 tickets aafaa hashtag on twitter from Description 10th Annual AAFAA Leadership Dinner 6pm Reception | 7-9pm Dinner Patton Hall | Arlington, VA Keynote Address by Michelle Giuda, Senior Official for Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] and Public Affairs and Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs. Join the Asian American Foreign Affairs Association (AAFAA) for an evening of mentorship and networking. Meet and mingle with colleagues, including former and current senior State Department officials, to strengthen our community, encourage our peers, and foster our careers. AAFAA is an association of Civil Service and Foreign Service employees, fellows, contractors, interns, and retirees at the U.S. Department of State with the mission to improve recruitment, outreach, and professional development of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) officers. For more information, please contact AAFAA@state.gov. ***Please note those with existing EventBrite accounts will be..

image from Given the immense amount of data found on the Internet via search engines, I am refocusing the goal of PDPBR: no longer a "non-biased" compilation essentially based on how often and where the term "public diplomacy" is cited on the internet, but rather from a selection on my part what is important about public diplomacy today -- a selection based on internet searches (granted, not on often incomprehensible, "theoretical" texts scholarly/academic articles-- quite distant from what U.S. dips do for PD "in the field") that reflects on my diplomatic career in the field and post-retirement publications, as well as teaching (too strong a word) focusing on American public diplomacy. "What is important?" is a question I learned from one of my mentors in Russian history at Princeton grad school, the eminent scholar James H. Billington. Billington image from "Mr. Brown," he asked "what is important about what your dissertation will be about?" (FYI -- the minor unpublished opus turned ..

Ramon T. Tulfo, manilatimes.net, April 16, 2019 Tulfo image from his article MANY companies in China are falling all over one another in a mad scramble to invest in the Philippines, which they see as a potential source of food on the table for its 3.5 billion people, a market for its products and a manufacturing hub. I know whereof I speak. Since I was appointed special envoy to China late last year, I’ve been talking with many prospective investors from the Mainland who want to: – Lease vast farmlands to plant vegetables and tropical fruits for export to China. — Lease thousands of hectares of fishpond, which have not been used or sequestered by the banks for nonpayment of mortgage. — Build or operate fishports complete with ice plants so Chinese vessels could carry the seafood and other aquatic produce to the Mainland fresh. — Buy river sand and gravel, and lahar sand to be used as construction materials. Most of our rivers are silted with sand and gravel which cause flooding during ..

grantbulletin.research.uiowa.edu Image from, under the headline: US Consulate [Juarez] joins blood drive campaign Sponsor Deadline: Dec 31, 2020 Sponsor: Dept of State Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez UI Contact: mary-blackwood@uiowa.edu (link sends e-mail) Updated Date: Apr 15, 2019 Email this (link sends e-mail) Annual Program Statement PAS US Consulate Juarez DOS-MEX-PD-CJ-2019-1 Grants.gov https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=314487 (link is external) Closing Date: Dec 31, 2020 To receive FY2019 funds your grant must be approved before September 15, 2019 Examples of PAS Small Grants Program programs include, but are not limited to: Academic and professional lectures, seminars and speaker programs; Artistic and cultural workshops, joint performances and exhibitions; Cultural heritage conservation and preservation programs; Professional and academic exchanges and programs; Priority Program Areas: 1) Culture of lawfulness and rule of law for the new gener..

Lloyd Grove, Daily Beast, 04.16.19 Julian Assange’s detractors in the media are many, but they also say that charging him over his WikiLeaks activities would amount to an attack on journalistic practice. Excerpt: Former Time magazine editor Rick Stengel, who served in the Obama administration as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] and Public Affairs, pointed out that the Assange arrest and indictment could have alarming implications for journalists worldwide. “It's not unreasonable to think that any prosecution of Assange emboldens autocratic leaders to crack down on journalists or whistleblowers,” Stengel told The Daily Beast. “But the tragic thing is that if you look at any of the countries we might be talking about—Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia and others—they do not have laws that protect freedom of the press and they do have laws that punish those who criticize the government. That's why it's so dangerous to be a journalist in those places, an..

odwyerpr.com State Dept. Merges PA, Propaganda Units, Fri., Apr. 12, 2019, By Kevin McCauley Michelle GiudaThe State Dept. has merged its domestic PA [JB - Public Affairs] bureau with the international information programs (public diplomacy [JB emphasis] ) unit to form a new global public affairs shop of about 300 staffers.The Washington Post calls the revamp "the biggest structural change at the State Dept. in 20 years," and a effort to counter disinformation campaigns by China and Russia.Michelle Giuda, acting under secretary for public policy and PA, engineered the overhaul, which had been contemplated for years but stymied by the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 that bars the government from targeting Americans with propaganda.The Post noted that Smith-Mundt Act restrictions are less relevant in the digital age when US reporters report on State Dept. messaging overseas, and foreign journalists cover State Dept. briefings.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the restructuring marks a "crit..

Dr. Helena Kane Finn Memoir and Bibliography: Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution dated February 14, 2019 InboxxDr. Helena Finn image from helenafinn3@gmail.comApr 10, 2019, 2:27 PM (11 hours ago) to helenafinn3Dear Colleagues and Friends, My memoir entitled Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolutionhas been published by Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) Program on Peacebuilding and Human Rights on April 9th, 2019. Here is the link to the publications page. I am most grateful to Columbia University for providing me with the opportunity to describe my work in the fields of public and cultural diplomacyduring my three decades in the United States diplomatic service. I hope that this document will provide inspiration to all thoseseeking peace. With regards, Helena Dr. Helena Kane FinnVisiting ScholarInstitute for the Study of Human RightsColumbia University

image from By Daniel Yergin, Nov 24, 1974, The New York Times Archives [JB - below an imperfect copy: article reproduced as it appears on line. Please refer to the link for the original version.] On Fulbright's NYT obituary, see. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems. Please send reports of such problems to archive_feedback@nytimes.com. View page in TimesMachineNovember 24, 1974, Page 262 The New York Times Archives For more than 30 years, he managed his trick, to be two things to two sets of people. To the people of the world, he was the urbane peace prophet J. William Fulbright, of the furrowed brow, the three‐piece suit, the dignified mien, and, for almost all that time, of the Senate Fore..

Sent from Mail for Windows 10; forwarded by John Brown (best email: john.h30@gmail.com) Daigle image (not from entry) from From: Daigle, J. Jeff Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:16 PM To: Daigle, J. Jeff Subject: SAVE THE DATE Invitation: April 11 ACPD Public Meeting on State Department PD Modernization Efforts Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please join the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD) for its next public meeting, which will feature a briefing by the Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources (R/PPR), within the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (R), on the Department of State’s efforts to modernize the practice of Public Diplomacy, including structure, staff, and technology. Featured topics and panelists will include:Modernization and the Strategic Framework – Brian HeathRealigning Public Diplomacy Sections and Locally Employed Staff – Judy MoonIntegrating Online Planning and Management Tools – Paul KruchoskiIncreasing ..

Image from I have come to the sad conclusion that "public diplomacy" has no meaning for the current White House opera obscura, if not for the American public. As you know, the USA State Department currently doesn't even have a Public Diplomacy official. So, focusing as I have on my modest blog re my beloved country's PD, am taking time off from sharing items with valued subscribers to the "Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review." I'll be back soon, if you (and I) can stand it. On the other hand, I encourage persons interested in PD outside of/inside the US of A to please look for media items pertaining to this important international topic -- PD -- on the internet. May I add, especially for grad students spending thousands of dollars for a degree in Pubic Diplomacy (pardon the typo): For for the most part, "scholarly" articles on PD are written by academics who have never actually been PD diplomats "in the field." (The work of PD dips -- let's be honest -- often con..