Project Description: Put a focus on the Danish Example, how to reduce carbon and create green jobs, in the State of Michigan Learning Point: Collaboration with decision makers and influencers on several levels and with different interests can take your message further then if only communicating with the ones who agrees with you or those in the highest [...]

Project Description: Central Asia Institute – co-founded in 1996 by Greg Mortenson and Jean Hoerni – is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission to promote and support community-based education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Learning Point: Public diplomacy – as a valuable by-product of successful and sustainable development – can be accomplished by [...]

  Project Description: To use an innovative library program to promote American dialogue with the Japanese while maintaining the five essential themes of USIS Japan activity. Learning Point: Some of the best PD programs abroad succeed by considering the unique nature of the host society—what constitute its values and what excites it—and offer foreign publics accessible, updated, and [...]

  Project Description: To provide a better understanding of the United States and to build a book publishing and selling infrastructure in developing countries that would support the cause of education, literacy, and democracy. Learning Point: The Franklin Book Programs illustrate how a very basic resource, if employed strategically, can be incredibly effective as a public diplomacy tool. [...]

Project Description: Investigate the potential use of virtual worlds in understanding Islam, and in doing so the use of Second Life in conducting Public Diplomacy. Learning Point: Virtual worlds can be used to supplement the critical experiential element that is found so richly in exchange programs and sponsored professional visits. In doing so virtual worlds offer potential means [...]

Project Description: Advocacy for cultural components in EU external relations – towards transnational public diplomacy Learning Point: Redefine public diplomacy in terms of emerging trans-national realities and institutions. Redefine it in close and active cooperation between civil society and public actors. Organisation: European Culture Foundation Full case study Transnational Cultural public diplomacy

  Project Description: To conduct an in-depth survey of the attitudes of young British Muslims, to provide a greater platform for their voices and greater understanding of these communities with which the UK Government had sought to engage. Learning Point: Listening provides a means to develop greater understanding of a community, it provides a means [...]

Project Description:  To build greater trust and understanding between UK society and Muslim communities in Sub-Saharan Africa Learning Point:  There can be a danger of a listening/dialogue project trying to do too much – but with proper institutional commitment the model has much to offer. Organisation:  British Council  Full case study Intercultural Dialogue in Africa