Project Description:   To promote freedom of expression by inviting a prominent Indonesian writer to tour the United States. Learning Point:   While artistic exchange can be a powerful tool for promoting freedom of expression, cultural diplomacy actors must not overlook the element of audience mutuality. A truly successful initiative should involve engaging with publics on both sides [...]

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: The International Visitor Program Special Initiative Projects were designed after the September 11, 2001 to bring leaders active in wide variety of fields from countries with significant Muslim populations to the United States to “exchange information, establish deeper dialogue, and increase mutual understanding between the people of those countries and the people of the United States.” [...]

Project Description: Bolstering human potential for a new style of leadership for social positive change in Africa and the world. Learning Point: To influence is at times involves letting go of the reins – to participate and not lead – to be the learner and the teacher, to be able to reassess ones position and be vulnerable in [...]

Project Description: Create a means to develop strong links between schools in Japan and the UK to support the exchange of ideas and approaches to education, through the Hampshire Neyagawa (Osaka) School Link project. Learning Point: The success originates from building on local success to model wider practise for the future. Rather than viewing exchanges as one off [...]

  Project Description: To implement educational policies for equality in gender, race/ethnicity and sexual orientation in the classroom, by sensitising teachers towards the issues of discrimination and encouraging a positive appreciation of diversity.   Learning Point:  The success of the project can be attributed to having approached it from the point of view of the participants [...]