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Ariang TV, a public international broadcaster tasked with teaching the world about Korea, has featured the Seoul-Washington Diplomat Exchange Program in its “After10” news program. This unique collaboration between the U.S. State Department and the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs allows diplomats to work within the other country’s government.

CPD is pleased to present a report summarizing discussions from the March 2013 conference: "International Broadcasting in the Social Media Era." Key topics included participation, transparency, and the journalist’s changing role in today’s rapidly evolving mediascape.

On Monday, November 18, CPD was pleased to welcome Evan Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs. Ryan brings decades of experience in communications, public engagement, and cultural exchange to this CPD Conversation in Public Diplomacy.

In this video, founder and CEO of MIMA Music and MPD candidate Christoph A. Geiseler discusses the “Voices for Peace” tour, an innovative digital diplomacy program that has taught the leaders of Muslim NGOs in five German cities how to create short videos that “promote interfaith dialogue” and “empower peaceful messaging.”

On November 9, the website for the U.S.-Mexico Network at USC went live in conjunction with an event featuring Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University has inaugurated its Brazil Initiative with a conversation on Brazil’s role in the global community.

CPD Contributing Scholar Mai’a Cross co-edited the soon-to-be published book European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work, and wrote the first of its eleven chapters, “Conceptualizing European Public Diplomacy.”

Australian Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Varghese discusses “Building Australia’s Soft Power” in this Soft Power Advocacy and Research Centre (SPARC) keynote address.

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