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larrydlauer.com Excerpt [from Lauer bio]: [Lauer] served seven years on the board of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), when it became truly international with offices in Washington, London, Singapore, and now Mexico. He considers his longtime international work in higher education and public broadcasting to be people-to-people communication, or “public diplomacy,” [JB emphasis] a topic he has been interested in since his graduate work at American University. From above blog citation: Foreign policy understanding requires government officials to speak from the same page. The larger the government, the more complicated this becomes.Diplomacy is defined as nation-to-nation communication and is conducted by departments of state through embassies.Public diplomacy [JB emphasis] is defined as people-to-people and government-to-people communication and is conducted by departments of state, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), various associations, educational in..

Image from article: The American ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, and his wife, Christine, at their residence in Beijing. A Chinese university turned down his request to visit a center to promote American culture this fall. Nicolas Asfouri By Jane Perlez and Luz Ding, The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2018; original article contains links BEIJING — The American ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, wanted to make what in most nations would have been a routine trip. One of his favorite schools, Iowa State University, had opened a center to promote American culture in an inland Chinese province, and the laid-back former governor of Iowa was eager to take questions from Chinese students. The center’s program, largely financed by the State Department, was deliberately benign so as not to offend Chinese government sensibilities. Politics was off the agenda. English lessons focused on fashion, music and sports. An essay-writing contest was called “Bald Eagle & Panda” after well-known fauna in ..

PublicDiplomacy.org [PublicDiplomacy.org is the Web site of PDAA, an association for public diplomacy professionals] U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush with Ambassador Harry G. Barnes. 1984 (Department of State) President Bush’s recent death and memorial service sparked memories by PDAA members about their interactions with the former diplomat, intelligence chief, vice president, and president. To see some of those recollections, click here.Please share PublicDiplomacy.org ...December 29th, 2018 | Category: Commentary, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

rs.gov.ru image from For many years, the great chorus of Don Cossacks led by Peter Khudyakov gives a concert in the Russian house in Berlin on the bright holiday of the Nativity of Christ. Professional opera singers will perform Orthodox chants in the Russian singing tradition. In the most quiet pianissimo and to the most powerful forte you can enjoy both the skill of the Cossacks, and their Slavic soul is heard. Ancient chorals, as usual, are sung a cappella. A wide range of voices only enhances the mystical depth of these sacred chants. The program of the concert will also include all your favourite songs: Evening Ringing, Kalinka, Troika, Black Eyes, Volga Volga, etc. Tickets are available at the box office of RDNK You can also order tickets here: https://www.ru.russisches-haus.de/konzertdonskiekozaki

TONY TAI-TING LIU, DEC 30 2018, International relations uncaptioned image from article This is an advance preview from New Perspectives on China’s Relations with the World: National, Transnational and International (forthcoming 2019). Since Joshua Kurlantzick (2007, 6) coined the term ‘charm offensive’ in 2007, the term has stuck in the study of International Relations to refer to China’s use of soft power to improve its global status and image. While the idea of China charming the world with its economic and cultural prowess has not changed too much over the past decade, the ways Beijing has adopted to charm other states have diversified since. In conjunction with such developments, in recent years, the term ‘public diplomacy’ has come to replace charm offensive as China’s latest efforts to improve its status and image through soft means. Noting China’s recent turn towards public diplomacy, this chapter seeks to address the topic in three sections. Part one examines the idea of public..

peacefmonline.com Image from article, with caption: Dr. WASK with Iv. Savvov, Founder, Managing Partner Europe Business Assembly, Oxford, UK Being an entrepreneur can be challenging, rewarding, frustrating, satisfying, disappointing, and exhilarating. Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. The high entrepreneurial skills in Dr. Williams Anarfi Sarpong popularly called Dr. WASK has caught the attention of the Europe Business Assembly and as such have been appointed the EBA Ambassador to Ghana and West Africa. The Europe Business Assembly is a multinational research and analytical center of image technologies, PR projects and international cooperation programmes in various spheres of human activity. The center was founded in 2000 in Oxford (Great Britain). It had founders who were scientists of universities and heads of commercial structures and public organizations of old Europe, who work ..

Nike Popoola and Samson Folarin, punchng.com, December 28 Ikupolati image fromExcerpt: Your darling newspaper, PUNCH, won the Editor of the Year award and four others at the 26th edition of the Nigerian Media Merit Awards, which took place at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos on Thursday night. ... The guest speaker, Prof. Mike Ikupolati, who spoke on leadership, said, “A leader is not measured by what he does to himself, but what he does to others.” Ikupolati, who is the president and chairman of the Governing Council, Chartered Institute of Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] and Management of Nigeria, stressed that a leader must be selfless and able to manage crisis. ...

Malik Siraj Akbar, atimes.com, December 8; below images& data from Wikipedia Balochistan بلوچستان‬ProvinceTop left to right: Quaid-e-Azam Residency, Makran Coastal Highway, Hingol National Park, Hanna Lake and Khuzdar Flag Seal Location of BalochistanCoordinates: 27.7°N 65.7°ECountry PakistanEstablished14 August 1947Provincial CapitalQuettaLargest cityQuettaSubdivisionsList[hide]Districts: 32Union Councils: 86Government • TypeProvince • BodyProvincial Assembly • GovernorAmanullah Khan Yasinzai[1] • Chief MinisterJam Kamal Khan • Chief SecretaryAkhtar Nazir • Inspector GeneralMohsin Hassan Butt • LegislatureUnicameral (65 seats)Area • Total347,190 km2(134,050 sq mi)Population (2017)[2][3] • Total12,344,408 • Density36/km2 (92/sq mi)Demonym(s)BalochTime zoneUTC+5 (PKT)ISO 3166 codePK-BAHDI (2017)0.474[4] lowProvincial Assembly seats65Websitewww.balochistan.gov.pk On Tuesday, news broke that Aslam Baloch, the mastermind of the recent attack on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan,..

Western governments and rights groups say it is premature to encourage the refugees’ return. Image from article, with caption: Syrian refugees women hold their children as they sit in Ouzai refugee compound, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. BEIRUT - Even as Russia pushes to repatriate Syrians who fled their country during the civil war and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) forecast that 250,000 could return to Syria in 2019, many are unwilling to go back, citing safety concerns and uncertainties shrouding Syria’s future. Only a trickle of the estimated 6 million refugees, mostly hosted in neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, have been repatriated since violence subsided and the Russians began their initiative to facilitate their return in July. Eager to show a normalising situation in Syria, Russia stepped up efforts to encourage the refugees’ return arguing that the fighting is over and terrorism has been largely stamped out. “The conditions allow their repatriation now,” ..

Reporter: antaranews.com, December 30 Farouk Abdullah Alwyni image from Depok, West Java (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government is expected to conduct humanitarian diplomacy in an active, free political context towards China in order to be open and provide correct information regarding the Uighur Muslim case and its peaceful resolution. This was revealed by Farouk Abdullah Alwyni, chairman of the Bureau of Foreign Services and Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), in his written statement on Saturday. Alwyni said Indonesia can be assertive and play an active role in helping Uighur Muslims in China to solve the problem of human rights violations that has befallen them. According to Alwyni, Indonesia is a country, with the largest Muslim-majority population in the world, that must appear to fight for justice and world peace. "It is necessary to fight for protection of ethnic minorities from human rights violations anywhere and become a national commit..