A curated selection of public diplomacy-relevant news from a global cross-section of English-language media outlets, including independent, corporate-owned, and state-sponsored sources. The stories featured don't necessarily represent CPD's views nor have they been verified by CPD.
U2's Bono coming to Ottawa
Stephen Harper once said that meeting celebrities wasn't his ``shtick'' -- but it seems he's had a change of heart. The prime minister is granting an audience to U-2 frontman Bono, who's coming to Ottawa on Monday. Bono, who's known as much for his humanitarian efforts and AIDS activism as he is for his music, will also meet with N-D-P Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
On-The-Record Press Call on the First Lady's Upcoming Trip to the United Kingdom and Italy
This trip is a wonderful way for the First Lady to highlight three of our four core policy initiatives -- namely Let Girls Learn, Let’s Move! and Joining Forces. [...] That day, the U.S.
No Surya Namaskar on International Yoga Day event: Government
It also said 'surya namaskar' was never a part of the yoga 'asanas' to be performed during the June 21 event.
How Science Diplomacy is Bridging the Two Koreas
When one of Richard Stone's contacts in North Korea asked him four years ago if he knows any Western volcanologists who might like to study Mount Paektu, a volcano on North Korea’s border with China, he saw a rare chance. [...] Two related scientific papers are now in preparation, said Stone at a panel discussion he moderated about science diplomacy in North Korea at the 9th World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, South Korea, this week (10 June).
Art of Diplomacy: How French Schools Abroad Cope with Censorship
It is one of the great allegorical paintings celebrating the French revolution: Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, shows a barefoot, bare-breasted woman – representing Marianne, the female symbol of the republic – brandishing a tricolour in one hand and a bayonetted musket in the other, leading the people over the bodies of the fallen. Pupils at the French Lycée in Kuwait, however, might be forgiven for missing the symbolism of the celebrated work of art used to illustrate their history books after local censors slapped a large red sticker over
Latvia Struggles With Restive Russian Minority Amid Regional Tensions
RIGA, Latvia — The yellowing pages of the thick guestbook at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia read like a song of praise for Latvian self-determination and express a narrative of condemnation directed at the two regimes — Nazi and Soviet — to which this country fell during World War II. But hidden among the expressions of admiration for Latvia’s struggle are entries written in Russian attesting to a different interpretation of the country’s recent past. “It’s not peoples that occupy but political regimes,” a visi
The Role of Exchanges: International Exchange Programmes
Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science, Margao has organised a first-of- its kind, short-term cultural and academic programme of two weeks. At present the college has affiliations with these four institutions namely Stockholm, Sweeden, Waseda University of Tokyo and Kelaniya University in Sri Lanka.
Local Interaction Key to U.S.-Japan Cultural Exchanges, Experts Say
Local interaction and nurturing personnel suitable to such efforts is the key to the future of grass-roots exchanges between Japan and the United States, experts in bilateral cultural relations said Friday at a Tokyo symposium. The aim of the symposium organized by the nonprofit America-Japan Society was to discuss the past and future of cultural exchange as the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II looms. “Creating ties between not only large cities but also regional heart lands would make a further contribution t
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