In honor of World Radio Day on February 13th, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, discusses the importance and necessity of radio. Growing up in a poor village in South Korea, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shares his personal experience on reliance of radio in his childhood.  Radio is a unique medium that educates, informs, and entertains both in rural and urban environments. It’s also a key tool for the conduct of public diplomacy. As new technology alters the way the world communicates, its essential to recognize the significance of radio in connecting the global community.

CPD University Fellow and Director of USC’s Masters of Public Diplomacy program Nicholas Cull was quoted in a Washington Post article on the Afghan Youth Orchestra.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is now accepting applications for its rigorous professional training program, which runs from July 21 - August 2.

At the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy’s Annual Conference, Katalin Bogyay, President of the General Conference of UNESCO examines the ways in which culture can facilitate peace. Specifically, she discusses the ways in which UNESCO creates educational standards for the global community. Bogyay focuses on how UNESCO combines peace building, culture, and education to create international change. 

The Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary Clinton, Alec Ross, speaks on the potential of technology and the ways in which his team applies innovation in service of the United States’ diplomatic and development goals. This video is one of a ten-part series produced by the the United States Diplomacy Center and the Office of Broadcasting Services with State Department officers asking them to answer the question “Diplomacy is…”.

Robert Banks, CPD Public Diplomat in Residence 2009-11, reviews CPD University Fellow Nicholas J. Cull's recently published book, The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy, 1989-2001.

Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Tara Sonenshine speaks on The Future of Public Diplomacy at the Heritage Foundation. Specifically, she discusses present State Department programs, as well as the effectiveness and evaluation of these programs to illustrate the impact of public diplomacy on foreign policy. Under Secretary Sonenshine looks at the effectiveness of Public Diplomacy through statistics that show how important public diplomacy programs are important to the future of the United States.