Project Description: To create a contemporary country-image of Japan by promoting its popular culture overseas through the MANGA Award. Learning Point: The MANGA Award campaign underlines the value of cultural diplomacy, and the positive effects that offering prizes may have in this field. The Award helped Japan recognize the achievements of non-Japanese artists, and transformed MANGA into an international [...]

Project Description: To create cultural relations between the United States and North Korea while the two government’s are in dispute over N. Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Learning Point: This case illustrates that no matter the preconceived notions or quarrel between nations and its people, we can put aside politics and all appreciate music and the arts. The symbolism [...]

Project Description: To promote UK-Russian relations through an exhibit of works loaned from Russian collections at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Learning Point: Organized exhibitions of historically significant artworks serve as an excellent form of gifting between nations, and they do not carry the risks often associated with the presentation of contemporary art and artists. However, [...]

  Project Description: To use both modern and classical art for an international exhibition in post war Germany, for both regional recuperation as well as integration into the post war avantgarde. Learning Point: Documenta demonstrates the undeniable implication and magnitude of art as a culturally inherent natural resource for a city, country, or region to (re)define its dialogue [...]

Project Description: Develop a multilateral project which can demonstrate the enriching quality of cultural diversity, through an event that explored historic transatlantic relationships through the medium of artistic expression. Learning Point: Cultural exchange provides a flexible focal point for multilateral programmes which can allow numerous partners to engage in a demonstration of themes such as cultural diversity. Organisation: British [...]

Project Description: To promote the vitality of U.S. culture abroad through dance during the Cold War Learning Point: Martha Graham’s tour of the Far East demonstrates the importance of associating American art with universal standards of high culture, and at the same time creating something that is accessible to a wide audience. The diplomatic value of the [...]

Project Description: A travelling art show that would showcase contemporary American artists and impress upon Europe and Latin America the cultural prestige of the United States. Learning Point: Using art to influence a foreign public and improve the cultural prestige of a country can be successful. Before implementing such a cultural diplomacy program, the host state must ensure [...]

Project Description: To use jazz music as a symbol of American democratic values and cultural diversity, as well as an emblem of cultural dissidence. Learning Point: Music serves as a universal global language, and when contested, can become an anthem of dissent.  The broadcast of jazz music on the Music USA-Jazz Hour program was a potent [...]

Project Description: Work with Sudanese artists and writers to help them to understand and overcome the conflicts which have scarred their country for the past fifty years. Learning Point: Resonance; the careful choice of location resonated with the participants and later with the media to ensure wider impact for the programme. The facilitative approach, providing [...]

  Project Description: Engage the multifaceted and fascinating power of culture and arts, as an expression of creativity, tolerance, mutual understanding, communication and dialogue, and highlight the work of EUNIC member organisations during the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Learning Point: Co-operation with various international partners can be as simple as organising a common programme [...]