Programming
The Public Diplomacy Council, founded in 1988, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, dedicated to fostering greater public recognition and effectiveness of public diplomacy through higher education and in the conduct of foreign affairs.
Public Diplomacy seeks to promote the national interest, national security and foreign policy of the U.S. through understanding, informing and influencing foreign publics and broadening dialogue between American citizens and institutions and their counterparts abroad. This is accomplished through personal contact, mass media, exchanges programs, electronic and visual communication and other tools of information dissemination and persuasion.
Accomplishments and Ongoing Programs
- Forums on Public Diplomacy
"Sustaining Exchanges While Securing Borders"
Co-sponsored with Public Diplomacy Institute and the Alliance on International Educational and Cultural Exchanges, featured on C-SPAN TV
"Public Diplomacy and the Islamic World"
Co-sponsored with the Public Diplomacy Institute and the Elliott School of International Affairs
- Educating and mentoring a new generation in public diplomacy as an academic field and as a profession at: The George Washington University?s Public Diplomacy Institute, Georgetown University?s Institute of Diplomacy, American University, Eckerd College (Florida), National Defense University, U.S. Army War College, University of Southern California?s Annenberg School for Communication, Syracuse University Maxwell School?s Washington Program; and the Department of State?s Foreign Service Institute at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center.
- Quarterly Members Dialogue Series:
Ambassador Christopher Ross, Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; Hon. Stuart Holiday, Department of State?s Coordinator for International Information Programs; Hon. Patricia Harrison, Acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; Mr. Mark Helmke, Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
- Reliable information and opinion resource
on public diplomacy issues for the major media, for congressional staff and committees, executive branch staff and policy-makers, foreign affairs think tanks and research organizations.
Workshops and Symposia:
Case Studies in Public Diplomacy
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Diplomatic Studies, Georgetown University and the Public Diplomacy Institute, George Washington University; Case Studies funded by the Pew Charitable Trust
The Future of International Educational Exchanges
Co-sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation and The George Washington University
Ike and USIA
Symposium and publication sponsored by the Public Diplomacy Foundation
The U.S. ? Warts and All
Symposium and publication sponsored by the Public Diplomacy Foundation
- Maintenance and distribution of a bibliographic materials relating to the study and practice of public diplomacy and a widely disseminated public diplomacy news Internet list serve and website.
