Virtual Diplomacy

The Institute's educational objective is to extract lessons and insights for future training of international affairs specialists, whether in government, international organizations, or the private sector. The Institute will accomplish this by:

• Understanding how the information revolution is transforming the character of international relations and conflict;
• Exploring the impact of new information technologies on institutional structures and operational effectiveness in the field;
• Identifying ways that information and communications technologies can strengthen preventive diplomacy, conflict management and resolution;
• Identifying areas of potential cooperation between crisis management groups, with special focus on using new information and communication technologies;
• Uncovering and developing resources in business, industry and philantropic circles to help foster that cooperation; and,
• Supporting cooperative efforts by encouraging unfamiliar organizational partnerships and broader resource-sharing.

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