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This article focuses on two examples of British Council grants programmes and explores how the cultural relations approach might be enabled internationally.

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This article explores the potential of taking a cultural relations approach to supporting sustainable development.

The Cultural Protection Fund's Training in Action project, run by Durham University's Department of Archaeology in partnership with the Department of Antiquities of Libya and the Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie, which intends to serve as a replicable model for Libyan and Tunisian heritage professionals to train new staff in documentation techniques and preventative conservation.

CPD Research Fellow Ian Thomas of the British Council describes a cultural relations approach to heritage protection.

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CPD Research Fellow Ian Thomas has developed evidence tools to help PD practitioners in the field measure and evaluate soft power.

Ian Thomas, the British Council's Head of Evaluation for the Arts and CPD Research Fellow, 2018-20, discusses the value of arts showcasing to soft power.

Learn how to measure the impact of soft power programming with Ian Thomas, Head of Evaluation for the British Council.

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