This year’s Summer School on Diplomacy will take place between the 21st and 27th of July 2014 at the University of Bucharest. The Summer School has evolved over the years and it has reached a new phase. It is ever more ambitious and this year, under the topic “21st Century Diplomacy”, it will offer an in-depth overview of the main topics of today’s diplomacy.
Diplomacy has embraced democracy and topics that used to be with the sole purview of diplomats from foreign ministries, embassies and permanent missions (let’s call it professional diplomacy) have been entrusted to people and institutions outside the field of diplomacy. However, this did not mean that professional diplomacy was relegated to a corner of international relations. On the contrary, as relations between countries expand exponentially, professional diplomacy has been given the important task of providing the backbone of international relations.
In order to understand 21st Century Diplomacy, the student should be given the opportunity to see more than what professional diplomacy does. Seeing and understanding 21st Century Diplomacy in all its complexity is what this year’s Summer School will offer. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the way diplomacy has changed over the passing of time, the new security protocols, conflict resolution techniques, crisis management procedures, altogether while being given the chance to apply and enact the principles of diplomacy to what they have learned, all this under the guidance of university professors, diplomats and experts in the field.
More info here: http://summerschool.unyouth.ro/
