Conference: The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2018

Academy for Cultural Diplomacy

"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Foster Democracy, Advance International Law and Back Global Human Rights"

The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy is the world's leading event in the field of cultural diplomacy hosted and is organized annually at the end of each year by the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy in partnership with other leading institutions. This year´s conference will take place in both New York City (November 2018) and Berlin (December 2018).

The international community today is being challenged by new forms of social unrest, while at the same time, pre-existing challenges such as extremism, migration, separatist movements, and climate change are rapidly increasing in their magnitude and influence on daily life. These new forms of social unrest, can be found in many States and within many groups and are mainly creating further doubts in and erosion of the seemingly long last structure and stability of society as had existed so far.

The outcome for society is alarming as these phenomena are often so powerful that they weaken governments and institutions and are putting the global order and rule of law into sometimes complete disarray. These current trends and transitions in concepts are posing real and pressing challenges for democracies, global security and human rights and emphasize the growing need for greater global dialogue and cooperation in order to avoid further escalation of these problems and the devolution of societies.

The 2018 Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy will therefore focus on raising awareness and support for activities that promote democracy, advance international law, and back global prosperity and human rights. The Annual Conference aims to present successful Cultural Diplomacy practices to try to remedy and to ease these global pressing challenges mentioned above and beyond. The conference will bring together leading politicians, religious leaders, senior academics, celebrated artists and representatives from the business sector and civil society in order to establish new institutions and initiatives that will help with these challenges using the practice of cultural diplomacy together with other practices and means.

Conference Locations

Based in Berlin, the conference will be hosted in the ICD House of Arts & Culture, the German Parliament and several hotels in Berlin.

Conference Speakers

The conference will bring together over 500 speakers and delegates coming from the fields of politics and religion together with senior academics and celebrated artists to promote Global Collaboration, Unity and Peace through Cultural Diplomacy in our interdependent world.

Participation in the conference is open to governmental & diplomatic officials, academics, economists, representatives of the Business sector, artists, journalists, civil society practitioners, representatives of the Business sector, young professionals as well as other interested individuals from across the world.

Certificate of Attendance - All conference participants will be awarded an official certificate of attendance upon completion of the program, which will provide details of the speakers who took part and the topics discussed. Each certificate will be signed by members of the Conference Committee.

The Conference Committee encourages academic research and analysis of issues related to the goals of the Conference. The Conference Committee would therefore like to welcome the participants of the conference to submit a paper they would like to be considered for presentation at the conference as well as being included in the proposal document that will be issued following the conference and will be sent to all governments and leaders of the international community worldwide. In case of interest, fill out the form for participant papers.

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