While continuing to develop and expand our capacity development, professional courses and training programmes, we are also conducting cutting-edge research into technology and policy.
If you are interested in helping or getting involved, please support us, or join the debate on our online communities – either climate change or Internet governance.
Diplo’s plans include:
We plan to conduct comprehensive global research on the perception of diplomacy, both with a lowercase ‘d’ – as a method for resolving conflict through the use of compromise and conciliation – and with an uppercase ‘D’ – as a system for managing modern international relations.
We will continue to promote the role of diplomacy and negotiations in solving global problems, with the key message that in the interdependent world, diplomacy is no longer just the ethically superior choice but a necessity for addressing complex issues like Internet governance and climate change negotiations.
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Traditional policy research in global affairs has shown serious limitations. It has failed to anticipate some major developments, such as the 2008 financial crisis or the latest developments in the Arab world. Some of the existing limitations could be overcome through the use of new Internet-based techniques, such as crowd-sourcing. A new form of policy research could assist the international policy community to better understand the fast-changing world, and to better anticipate future crises.
We have developed a toolkit for Internet-based policy research which has been implemented in pilot projects in the field of Internet governance and climate change.
We are also investigating unorthodox topics with growing relevance for global policy, including emotions in global governance and negotiations, science and global policy, and managing diversity in global policy.