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pon.harvard.edu EVENT DATE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2019 TIME: 12:00 - 1:30 PM LOCATION: POUND HALL ROOM 100, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MAThe Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Middle East Negotiation Initiative are pleased to present:What Can the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) Do for the Syrians While the War Goes On and Formal Negotiations Are Stalled?withHind KabawatVisiting Scholar, Program on Negotiation Deputy Head of Syrian Negotiation Commission Office in Geneva Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, George Mason UniversityWednesday, February 27, 2019 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.Pound Hall Room 100 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MAFree and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.Add to calendarGoogleiCalOutlookAbout the event:Hind Kabawat will illustrate how the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC), made up of diverse Syrian opposition groups, is able to make small, but meaningful advances for the ..

youtube.com image from videoCGTN America Published on Feb 27, 2019 In June 2018, Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Trump and Kim made history with their summit in Singapore. Prior to the US-DPRK summit the DPRK and South Korea also held an inter-Korean Summit in April 2018. Since those meetings, the DPRK has thawed some of its diplomatic and cultural relationships in Asia and with the United States, and began a new round of public diplomacy. [JB emphasis].

haaretz.com Three of the prime minister's formerly closest associates – Ari Harow, Shlomo Filber and Nir Hefetz – are now part of the state prosecution’s case against him Excerpt: Image from article: Former Netanyahu communications adviser Nir Hefetz in court in May, 2018. Nir Hefetz Position: National public diplomacy [JB emphasis] head, personal communications adviser to the Netanyahu family Date of state’s evidence agreement: March 4, 2018 Suspicions that he was facing: Bribe-taking, along with Netanyahu and obstruction of justice Information that he supplied against Netanyahu: In Case 4000 he gave an account in which he spoke of a connection between alleged requests to skew Walla’s news coverage and policy decisions made by Netanyahu The state’s evidence agreement: He will not be charged and will not pay a fine. Nir Hefetz is a former newspaper editor who served as media adviser to the prime minister’s family. Notorious for throwing his weight around when he wasn’t happy with ..

Mahsa Rouhi and Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, iiss.org; original article contains links Image from Wikipedia, with caption: Officials announcing the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] agreementExcerpt: What does Zarif's resignation mean for Iranian diplomacy? With the erosion of a unipolar world Iran has the chance to shift its foreign policy, whilst continuing to comply with the JCPOA [JB see] and maintain broad diplomatic engagement. On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif announced his resignation in a late-night Instagram post, sending shockwaves through political circles in Iran and abroad. Just ten days earlier, Javad Zarif’s fiery performance at the Munich Security Conference had won him praise across the political spectrum in Iran. At a time when public support for the JCPOA among Iranians has slipped to just 51%, Zarif’s strong message struck a chord with the Iranian public, who flooded social media with clips of him defending Iran’s missile program and refu..

Carolyn Kenney, Max Bergmann, and James Lamond, americanprogress.org Image from article, with caption: A motorcade car adorned with Chinese and Russian flags awaits Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival at Vladivostok International Airport, Russia, on September 11, 2018. Excerpt: In an effort to develop legal and policy solutions to this threat, different democracies around the world are trying to establish frameworks for distinguishing types of influence activities that are acceptable from those that are not. For the purposes of this issue brief, the authors adopt the framework provided by former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in his speech on countering foreign threats, focusing primarily on influence activities carried out or supported by foreign governments that are “covert, coercive or corrupt.”4 As such, this brief does not focus on legitimate, benign forms of foreign government influence, such as public diplomacy [JB emphasis] and exchange programs, but rather ..

state.gov ***THE DAILY PUBLIC SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***DEPARTMENT OF STATEPUBLIC SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 28, 2019 Royce image from Excerpt:ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS MARIE ROYCE 3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Royce holds a courtesy call with Yemeni Minister of Culture Marwan Damaj, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

via GG - Many thanks! The Global Youth Ambassadors Program has taken more than 250 students to countries like Germany over the last decade. Now longtime education advocate John Eaves is helping student passports at an earlier age. Editor’s note: The following is a sponsored article, meaning that Global Atlanta was compensated for its publication and consulted on the production of the piece. It was written by John Eaves, founder and executive director of Global Youth Ambassadors Program and the former chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners John Eaves Since getting my first passport 30 years ago, I’ve been fortunate enough to visit more than 50 countries and experience diverse cultures, wonderful people, beautiful landscapes, and fascinating ways of life.Unfortunately, relatively few Georgians embrace this privilege, with just over a third of our state’s citizens carrying a passport— even less than the national average of 48 percent. The shortfall is even more pronounced i..

thehindu.com Image from article:Learning opportunities: Lauren Lovelace, Consul for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, and Adam J. Grotsky, Executive Director, USIEF, in Kochi on Wednesday Science, technology, engineering, mathematics courses remain most preferred There has been a steady increase in the number of Indian students pursuing their higher studies in the United States over the last 10 years, according to Adam J. Grotsky, Executive Director of United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF). “Currently we have under 2,00,000 Indian students in the U.S. There has been an approximate 2.6% or 3% increase last year compared to the year before,” he said at a media interaction on the sidelines of the Fulbright South and Central Asia Annual Conference hosted by the USIEF that concluded here on Wednesday. Mr. Grotsky said STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) areas remained the most preferred among Indian students. “U.S cam..

allafrica.com Photo in article: Ethiopian Herald - The Grand Renaissance Dam or GERD. Addis Ababa — Public and official diplomacy [JB emphasis] need to go side by side as they are critical to enhance ties and bridge gaps regarding the Ethiopian Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), member of an Egyptian public diplomacy said. In an exclusive interview with ENA [Ethiopian News Agency], Moustafa El Gendy, a former independent member of Egypt's parliament and member of the diplomacy delegation, said public and official diplomacy are "as critical as two wings of a plane". He added that countries should use both public and official diplomacy simultaneously in order to resolve differences. "Let us fly the plane with the two wings not one. One wing depicts official diplomacy while the other related to public diplomacy. Then, with the two together, with two good pilots and I mean good pilots in the cockpit, we will fly and we will go far," he said. Describing public diplomacy as 'a..

Melissa Korn and Kate O’Keeffe, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 27, 2019 5:00 p.m. ET Image from article: Students learned Chinese calligraphy in the Confucius Institute of San Francisco State University in 2014. PHOTO: LIU YILIN/ZUMA PRESS Investigative report recommends closing Confucius Institutes at colleges and schools if Beijing keeps stymieing U.S. cultural outreach A powerful Senate panel recommended abolishing more than 600 Chinese government-funded cultural and language programs at U.S. schools and universities unless Beijing provides equal access for American public diplomacy [JB emphasis] efforts in China, as U.S. officials escalate calls for a level playing field on issues from trade to the treatment of journalists.In a new report, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that Beijing has been using programs, called Confucius Institutes, to play down any economic and security threats to the U.S. from China.The bipartisan report also accused the Education an..