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Daryl Copeland
Fellow


Daryl Copeland is a Canadian analyst, author and educator who writes and speaks extensively as an independent scholar on issues of international policy, global issues, diplomacy and public management.

Mr. Copeland grew up in Toronto and received his formal education at Jarvis C.I., the University of Western Ontario, where he won the Chancellor’s Prize (social sciences) Gold Medal (political science), and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, where he was awarded the Canada Council Special MA Scholarship. His informal learning, life skills and world-view have been nurtured over the course of years spent backpacking through six continents. He is currently affiliated with the Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, as Research Fellow, and the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, as Senior Fellow. In this capacity he serves, among other things, as a resource on diplomacy, foreign ministries and careers in the foreign service, international and non-governmental organizations.

Mr. Copeland is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy and serves as a subject matter expert/peer reviewer for The Hague Journal of Diplomacy and the International Journal and Canadian Foreign Policy. His book, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations is forthcoming in 2009 from Lynne Rienner Publishers.    

From 1981 – 2009 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings abroad in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. Among his positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa Mr. Copeland worked as Deputy Director for International Communications; Director for Southeast Asia; Senior Advisor, Public Diplomacy; Director of Strategic Communications Services and; Senior Advisor, Strategic Policy and Planning.  From 1996-99 he was National Program Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto and Editor of Behind the Headlines, Canada's international affairs magazine. He was elected five times to the Executive Committee of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers In 2000, he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for his "tireless dedication and unyielding commitment to advancing the interests of the diplomatic profession."

Further information on Daryl Copeland and his thinking on diplomacy, development and security in the age of globalization are available at: www.guerrilladiplomacy.com.

Recent Publications by Daryl Copeland
(2009) Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

June 16, 2009 - PD’s Most Formidable Adversary: The Say-Do Gap CPD Blog

April 1, 2009 - Fixing Foreign Ministries: Message from Oz CPD Blog

November 26, 2008 - Connectivity and Networks Rule: Virtuality, Public Diplomacy and the Foreign Ministry CPD Blog

June 23, 2008 - PD and Counterinsurgency in the Globalization Age: Two sides of the Same Coin? CPD Blog


Daryl Copeland in the News
July 1, 2009 - Daryl Copeland quoted in Canadian foreign policy newspaper Embassy story DFAIT's Guerilla Diplomat Bids Adieu

June 1, 2009 - USC Center on Public Diplomacy Announces 2009 Fellows


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