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.

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.”

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.

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.

In this video, Aspen Institute Arts Program Director Damian Woetzel leads a discussion about using art to project American soft power internationally, posing the questions “How can artists today productively engage with diplomacy? Are we doing our best as a nation to harness the utility of art as a foreign policy tool?” The conversation features American artist Joel Shapiro, who has created public sculptures at US government outposts in Guangzhou, China and Ottawa, Canada, among others.

The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the Indonesian Embassy in Iran, and the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Education have partnered to host an Indonesian cultural festival called “1000 Years of Indonesia-Iran Cultural Relations.” Located in Tehran, the festival features Indonesian dance, music, and theater. Mohammed Nuh, the Indonesian Minister of Culture, says that the event represents a “new hope” for cross-regional cooperation.

In this video, the British Council offers a preview of their new multimedia exhibition, “Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica” The exhibit showcases the innovations of British, South Korean, Indian and Belgian architects which have allowed scientists to live and work in Antarctica’s extreme climate, as well as some of the scientific innovations that

The Public Diplomat hosted a virtual panel of public diplomacy academics, tasked with evaluating recent op-eds for foreign audiences by Russian President Vladimir Putin (The New York Times), American Senator John McCain (Russia’s