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.
Terms Of Involvement
It is, therefore, important that India should start reconsidering the terms of its involvement in Afghanistan. Until now, India has relied on its "soft power" in wooing Kabul. It is one of the largest aid donors to Afghanistan and is delivering humanitarian assistance as well as helping in nation-building projects in myriad ways.
In Havana, a Real Education
Today, the University of Havana—Cuba’s oldest institution of higher education—partners with 12 North American colleges and universities to run study abroad programs, nine of them come from schools in the United States. The partnerships started in 2000 with the Institute for Study Abroad. In the last academic year, the University of Havana hosted nearly 100 foreigners.
C’mon Get Wildly Creative
South Africa's IMC, custodian of Brand South Africa, is sponsoring a first of its kind online ad competition that will "crowdsource" creativity and insight from around the world to showcase South Africa as a vibrant and competitive nation brand.
Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges embark on musical cultural exchange in Turkey
College students in the Philadelphia area will fly to Turkey tomorrow to begin learning more of that country's culture through harmonies and rhythms. 31 choral singers from Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges are taking part in this unique cultural exchange program.
Opposing the Digital Pogrom
Being depicted as “stupid and condescending” as the Reuters article suggests, is not the nicest of punches, but it certainly beats being portrayed as baby eaters, Nazis and ethnic cleansers, as some in the international media has often inferred. Similarly, what of the “gullible European audiences” the article insists are inherent to the sketch?
S. Koreans learn with locals
The practicum is the culminating experience for the teachers from Incheon, South Korea, who began studying English and American education in March 2009 through an agreement between the city of Incheon, Eleutian Technologies Inc. and Northwest College
Performance of friendship groups disappointing
Despite Turkey’s recent emphasis on public diplomacy as a major component of its new foreign policy, parliamentary friendship groups have failed to live up to expectations. While there is a plethora of parliamentary friendship groups in the Turkish Parliament with ties to corresponding groups in other countries, the number of reciprocal visits between these groups is disappointingly low.
YES Programs Encourage Cultural Exchange at Alta
YES was founded following the post-9/11 realization that public awareness of world culture, especially about nations with signifigant Muslim populations, was extremely low. Funded by the US Department of State, the progra is a collaborative effort between foreign exchange organizations both within America and throughout the Middle East and Asia.
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