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DiploAnalytica is a computer-based method for increasing knowledge about diplomacy. DiploAnalytica is applicable both in the educational domain as well as in diplomatic practice. DiploAnalytica enhances the analytical capabilities of students of diplomacy, international law, history, security and international relations as well as of practitioners in the field, be they diplomats, lawyers, journalists or military personnel.
DiploAnalytica is based on the centrality of documents in diplomatic practice. The richness and complexity of diplomatic activities found not only in negotiation and representation but also in social activities and media coverage is crystallised in diplomatic documents, the foremost of which are diplomatic agreements.
Verba Volant, Scripta Manent.
What is new in DiploAnalytica? Nothing is new under the sun. Diplomats have been thinking, reflecting and analysing in order to improve diplomatic practice since time immemorial. However, information technology allows us to revisit the traditional diplomatic paradigm with a fresh approach. DiploAnalytica offers not only faster and broader access to information but also a unique framework for contextual analysis through hypertext, dissection, comparisons and contrasts in order to increase diplomatic knowledge.
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Objectives
to enable users to gain explicit knowledge about the current diplomatic value of particular diplomatic documents;
to facilitate the understanding of negotiation processes in general with special emphasis on negotiation techniques actually adopted to reach the particular diplomatic document;
to enable a more precise understanding of each side's give and take and compromises actually recorded in a diplomatic agreement;
to place the diplomatic document in its proper historical context, meaning and significance through comparative analysis of foreign ministry documents and media coverage of the time;
to enable users to gain elements of tacit diplomatic knowledge hidden in diplomatic documents but contained in the experience and expertise of
diplomats
How to Participate
DiploAnalytica Workshops
Short introductory workshops (1-2 days) can be organised for groups of 10-20 participants either in Malta or in chosen locations (diplomatic training institutions, international organisations and diplomatic services, etc.). Workshops will be followed by professionally supervised online dissection exercises. |
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