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A symposium examining the contribution of citizen diplomacy to shaping the role of the United States in the world.

Featuring:

Hon. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
Hon. Mac Thornberry (R-TX)

You are invited to a symposium co-sponsored by Georgetown University and World Learning. The event will draw on World Learning's 75-year history of facilitating experiential education through its Experiment in International Living and the Georgetown University Mortara Center's long-standing commitment to understanding the full range of foreign policy tools. Together with The Aspen Institute's Global Interdependence Initiative, we are exploring citizen diplomacy as an investment in a U.S. foreign policy that both advances U.S. interests and responds effectively to issues that are global in scope. The event will explore "high road," high-quality citizen exchange and diplomacy as an undervalued element of strategic communication, economic development and higher education. The event will kick off with a keynote address and response. Two panel discussions will follow. The first, "What Can Citizens Do? Experiencing High-Road Diplomacy," will pair exchange alumni from several fields with experts on crafting fruitful international exchange programs to explore the outcomes and limitations of such experiences. The second panel, "Democratizing Diplomacy and Development," will bring experts and practitioners from government, academia and the private sector together to situate "high road" citizen diplomacy within larger strategic questions about U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century.