“As we communicate with people around the world, we must move beyond messaging. We need to listen more and lecture less. We have to learn how people listen to us, how our words and deeds are actually heard and seen.”
—Judith McHale , U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, June 11, 2009
The Public Diplomacy Collaborative
Effective communication is the most promising avenue we have for cultivating respectful international discourse and for revitalizing trust in the democratic tradition.
The Public Diplomacy (PD) Collaborative is a forum for enhancing purposeful international communication. Our goal is to connect key nodes of public diplomacy practice and put public opinion and public diplomacy research into the hands of practitioners, regardless of location or sector.
The PD Collaborative emphasizes discussion, training, scholarship, and publication in the field of public diplomacy as well as the exchange of regional information across sectors, disciplines, and national boundaries. We seek to support, improve, and expand public diplomacy efforts in a manner that most successfully promotes democratic governance.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs speaks at Harvard, September 17, 2009: http://www.state.gov/r/remarks/129533.htm
CURRENT INITIATIVES
(For proposed initiatives, see Solutions)
Conferences, Seminars, and Presentations
"British Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran," seminar with Simon Shercliff, FCO First Secretary, Foreign Security and Policy, Washington (PDC, October 2009)
“The Future of British Public Diplomacy,” seminar with Nic Hailey, Counsellor for Political, Economic, and Communications at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (PDC, October 2009)
“Public Diplomacy in the Age of Obama” (PDC, September 2009)
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/press-releases/ash-pr-mchale-sept09
Publications and Research
War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Citizen Views of War (Princeton University Press, Matthew Baum & Tim Groeling, August 2009)
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9084.html
Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference (Harvard Business School Press, Todd Pittinsky, August 2009)
http://press.harvardbusiness.org/crossing-the-divide
“Public Diplomacy at the Crossroads,” Fletcher Forum Volume 33, #3: Special Edition on Public Diplomacy (Mark McDowell, Spring 2009) http://fletcher.tufts.edu/forum/archives/pdfs/32-3/McDowell.pdf
Groups and Committees
Task Force on U.S. Standing in World Affairs, American Political Science Association
http://www.apsanet.org/content_59477.cfm