Jeremy Curtin, Senior Fellow at the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, is leading a project for the Henry L. Stimson Center and the American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) to study the training and education needed to prepare American diplomats for 21st century statecraft. The project will examine what American diplomats do now and what they will be called upon to do in the future; what professional skills are necessary to carry out these tasks successfully; what skills should be added and outdated ones dropped; and what patterns of training, education and assignments can best prepare our diplomats to achieve……
Day: May 28, 2010
Boot Camp for Journalism Entrepreneurs
Last week, I was an instructor at the News Entrepreneur Boot Camp 2010 at USC. Sponsored by the Knight Digital Media Center, USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, theAnnenberg Center for Communication Leadership and Public Policy(CCLP), and the Online Journalism Review, the camp brought together about 20 aspiring entrepreneurs, almost all former journalists, who are trying to create new news/information enterprises in the digital world. If you'd like to watch a video of my session, click here [from the Knight Digital Media Center], or take a look at my power point slides [below]…….
Seib lecture at Georgetown
Philip Seib, of the Director of the Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California and Faculty Fellow, delivered a lecture entitled "New Media and Public Diplomacy in the Arab World." This event was part of the Information Evolution in the Arab World symposium. The symposium was sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University…….
Dry China – Carnegie Council article
Senior Fellow Orville Schell in conjunction with Policy Innovations, a publication by the Carnegie Council focused on addressing fair globalization, published an article as part of their Project Syndicate initiative. Schell's article explores the droughts in China and its effects on national landmarks such as the Huangguoshu Waterfall in China's southwestern Guizhou Province…….
Glickman Calls on U.S. to Improve Treatment of Refugees
Refugees International President and Senior Fellow Dan Glickman today urged policymakers to fix shortfalls in current law that needlessly prevent refugees, asylum seekers and stateless individuals from finding safe harbor and enjoying basic human rights in the United States. Glickman testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, "Renewing America's Commitment to the Refugee Convention: The Refugee Protection Act of 2010."……