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Humanitarian diplomacy learning for the Americas
12 June 2014
Margarita Griffith is Learning Officer for the America Zone Office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Panama. When she was given the task to promote the Humanitarian Dipl...
Diplo alumni – six years later
Last week I was struck by a photo I spotted on Facebook: three graduates of our 2008 Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Diplomacy happened to meet up in New York. Coming from Suriname, Kosovo, and Samoa, this...
Sharing professional experience to enhance humanitarian diplomacy practice
03 January 2014
Diplomatic theory and practice, Humanitarian diplomacy, Online education
DiploFoundation and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have worked together to offer an interactive online course on Humanitarian Diplomacy since early 2012. The course is ope...
Developing capacity for humanitarian diplomacy in Bangladesh
09 July 2013
Capacity development, Humanitarian diplomacy, Online education
In this short interview from June 2013, Mohamed Keramot Ali, Field Coordinator of the Community-based Development Initiatives (CDI) Program at the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, explains how he put the skills he dev...
Supporting humanitarian diplomacy at the Finnish Red Cross
23 May 2013
Humanitarian diplomacy is persuading decision makers and opinion leaders to act, at all times, in the interests of vulnerable people, and with full respect for fundamental humanitarian principles. DiploFoundation and...
Rodney Taylor: Diplo Fellow and Acting CTU SG in the News
10 April 2012
Gender rights online, Internet governance and digital policy
Diplo\'s alumni and emerging leaders are often in the news. Rodney Taylor, Acting Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), a Diplo Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme 2008...
E-tools for consular assistance
24 March 2010
Consular departments take advantage of several e-tools to keep in touch with nationals overseas. Here are three recent trends in using e-tools for consular assistance and protection. (Links point to examples on the we...
