With constitutions in many countries being rewritten or reframed, there's a chance to enshrine those aspirations into law. The British Council has been working for many years with Middle Eastern partners to improve women's access to education and economic benefit...

Chair of the Falkland Islands 2012 Committee Lewis Clifton... noted that this theme and the booklet also fitted in with the wider Falkland Islands Government public diplomacy initiative that involved attempting to dispel some of the misleading rhetoric on the Falklands, coming out of Argentina.

The British Council's work in the region over the coming months will include offering citizenship and arts grants to build up civil society; teaching English, including educational radio broadcasts across the country; using UK higher education expertise to create universities that value cultural activity and free speech

Accepting the award, Goel said, “The conferring of the degree is a recognition of the great work being done by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in the area of cultural diplomacy”...“The ICCR is using dialogue between societies toward achieving the ancient wisdom...

UK's international organisation for education and cultural relations, The British Council, is organising one-stop exhibitions for those who aspire to study in the UK. Titled 'Education UK Exhibitions', the trade fair will travel to six cities in the country beginning from New Delhi to Kolkata...

He said ... after years of underinvestment in the Royal Navy which saw the number of fighting ships drop by 60%. He also said there were several other parallels, including a troubled coalition government which believed more in soft power than a powerful military

[The EU] allows for members to deal with major cross-border issues such as migration and criminality and trade more effectively... It is a prime example of "soft power"; it has brought peace and stability.

For much of the past decade, "soft power" has been touted as a means for making foreign policy more effective by emphasizing enticement rather than coercion, conversation rather than conflict.