Building up on the decade-plus long Summer School programme of the Institute, this new course on diplomacies is allowing participants from all over the world to acquire the latest knowledge on the importantly-transformed diplomacy scene and build the needed skills to navigate this crucial contemporary field of international affairs.
Professor Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou, Deputy Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute
Studying at the Graduate Institute is a chance to place yourself at the center of international diplomacy and policymaking. Being in the heart of International Geneva means learning from experienced academics and professionals, not only in the classroom but also in the halls and meeting rooms of some of the most influential diplomatic institutions and organisations in the world.
Jack Spehn, Summer Student from the American University
The “From Diplomacy to New Diplomacies” module examines the evolution of diplomacy from its traditional state-led configuration and processes to the new emerging set of issues and actors shaping the plural new diplomacies. Through a combination of conceptual and practical sessions, it invites participants to deep-dive into these fast-changing issues, giving particular attention to new spaces of diplomatic engagement, technological tools, and expanding multi stakeholder governance.
“From Diplomacy to New Diplomacies” examines the actors, processes, and institutions of this evolution, and aims to equip participants with the relevant focused understanding and skills to make sense of modern diplomacy and navigate it. The course adopts a critical, comparative, historical, interdisciplinary, and policy-oriented approach.
In addition to Professor Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou, the groundbreaking course will include lessons from Professor Suerie Moon on “Shifting Paradigms in Global Health”; Professor Mark Zeitoun on “Environmental Diplomacy”; Professor Cedric Tille on “Business and Diplomacy”; Dr Jean-Marc Rickli on “Diplomacy and Technological Transformation”; Ambassador Fred Tanner on “Ceasefire Diplomacy”; Dr Alexandre Freire on “International Cooperation and Diplomatic Career”; Professor Andrew Clapham on “International Law on Trial”; Dr Jérôme Duberry “The Governance of Artificial Intelligence”; Dr Paola Deda, Director of Forest, Land and Housing Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), on “The Diplomacy of Cities”; and Professor Davide Rodogno on “The Diplomacy of Civil Society”.
The week will also feature a high-level panel discussion on the transforming global diplomatic scene with Professor Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute; Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Executive Director of Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP); Michael Moller, president of the Diplomatic Forum of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation, and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the 12th director-general of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG); and Director David Harland, Executive Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.
The 52 students taking part in the first edition of the “From Diplomacy to New Diplomacies” summer programme will also spend a morning at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to consider “Diplomacy of Human Rights” at the heart of the international community.
Learn more about the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Summer Programmes