diplomats
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Here's what participants in our February 2019 training workshop have to say.
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Positive messaging of diplomacy activities negates the common belief that fear and anger travel faster online.
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How to raise the bar for Canada’s foreign service? Daryl Copeland offers advice to ensure a more capable group of representatives abroad and an improved foreign ministry at home.
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Senior Foreign Service Officer Conrad Turner comments on the stereotypes—and the misconceptions—about the diplomatic corps.
The Foreign Service, our country’s irreplaceable asset for understanding and interacting with a complex and dangerous world, is facing perhaps its greatest crisis. President Trump’s draconian budget cuts for the State Department and his dismissive attitude toward our diplomats and diplomacy itself threaten to dismantle a great foreign service just when we need it most.