PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWS

MAR 17, 2008
Olympic politics heating up even faster than expected
MinnPost
There are 145 days to go until the first athletic event of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But the political activity that was expected to swirl around the global extravaganza has ripened sooner than anyone could have imagined.  Read more...

MAR 16, 2008
“Ethiopian women to change nation’s image”
Ethiopian News Agency
Minister of Trade and Industry, Girma Biru said women possess the capacity needed to change the image of the country if they are empowered and take leadership at various levels.  Read more...

MAR 14, 2008
State Dept. notes rise in global anti-Semitism over last decade
Haaretz
Anti-Semitism, including government-promoted hatred toward Jews and prejudice couched as criticism of Israel, has risen globally over the last decade, the State Department said on Thursday.   Read more...

MAR 14, 2008
What Muslims Think
U.S. News and World Report
New book examines what the more than 1 billion Muslims think about gender, race and terrorism  Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
Stop vilifying Arabs
Gulf News (UAE)
"As long as no one contests our nation's Islamophobia and Arabophobia." Dr Shaheen told me, "the myth, Arab-Muslim-Terrorist, will continue to poison our hearts and minds."  Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
Why the Dutch must win hearts and minds
Financial Times
Maximising Dutch "soft power" has a different set of rules from traditional diplomacy. It is important for public diplomacy to intensify non-official relations with foreign countries, heed the cultural component of foreign policy and hold dialogue with one's own citizens. It is not about government to government relations, but about getting through to the nooks and crannies of other countries that official diplomacy cannot reach.  Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
American Public Diplomacy Envoy Michelle Kwan Travels to Argentina
US Department of State
American Public Diplomacy Envoy Michelle Kwan will travel to Argentina March 15, 2008 to begin her third tour as a State Department Public Diplomacy Envoy. While in Argentina the figure skating champion will visit Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Parana.  Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
Is it possible for geeks to fix the United Nations?
The Guardian
Probably not - or not directly. But some of the same people that have 2 million people tracking their MPs' voting records via the site theyworkforyou.com and who, through farmsubsidy.org, got the EU to publish full subsidy data, have set up UNdemocracy.com, an attempt to shed light on the inner workings of the UN.  Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
Zimbabwe: Indian Group to Hold Shows
The Herald (Harare)
India's head of Charge de Affairs, Vijay Mehta, who also graced the occasion said the visit by the group would enhance cultural exchange between India and Southern African countries. Mehta said the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, which sponsored the group, has assisted several other groups that have visited Zimbabwe and performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts.  Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
China sees conspiracy behind Olympics criticisms
Reuters
China's controls on religion and news reporting, its problems with food safety and role in Sudan's Darfur region "have been vastly exaggerated by the foreign media", Zhao wrote in the front-page commentary. Chinese officials had been too passive in the face of criticism, leaving the country's critics to dominate news coverage, he said, urging a public diplomacy offensive.  Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
Serenading North Korea
Asia Times
A historic event it certainly was, the South Korean pop star's concert in Pyongyang in August 2005. And, so, a historic cross-cultural event it shall be, the night that the New York Philharmonic played - or was played - in Pyongyang. The only question that will long remain is just for whom it was historic: the paying performers, the receiving regime, or the suffering North Korean people?   Read more...

MAR 13, 2008
Seminar on role of media in dialogue to be held in Kuwait
International Center for Journalists
What is the impact of new media on inter-cultural relations? To what extent does the media influence the way we think and feel about another culture? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during the eleventh seminar on the “Role of the Media in Dialogue between Arabs and the West,” scheduled for March 30 to 31 in Kuwait City.  Read more...

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