2nd Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change – August 9, 2024
The second GLOBAL INDIGENOUS YOUTH SUMMIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE (GIYSCC) will be held 9 August 2024, circling the Earth with the Sun across three 8-hour time zones in 24 hours (00:00 GMT – 24:00 GMT) on the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, hosted by Future Earth with Science Diplomacy Center™ coordination. This “virtual dialogue by, for and…
SCIENCE DIPLOMACY TRAINING WITH INFORMED DECISIONMAKING
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has implemented their 6-week Diplomacy 4.0 – Beyond the Digital Frontier training program since 2019, most recently from 8 April 2024 to 19 May 2024. Developed and implemented by Prof. Paul Arthur Berkman – Science Diplomacy (Module 6) has been the concluding week since this multilateral…
United Nations – STI Forum 2024
The 9th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum 2024) was convened at the United Nations in New York on 9-10 May 2024. Prof. Paul Arthur Berkman was in New York during these dates at the invitation of the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York…
OPEN SCIENCE IS AKIN TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH
History of science diplomacy comes full circle in view of the recent Nature news piece that NATO is boosting AI and climate research as scientific diplomacy remains on ice with the final sentence: “Open science is akin to freedom of speech. If we turn off open science, in a sense we’re undermining democracy,” says Berkman. In…
The Rights of Nature as a Pathway for Consensus Building and Relational Planning
The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The seminar considers ways to strengthen the capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform ethnonational conflicts. Part Two of a two-part Kelman Seminar series on common-interest building in negotiation…
Next-Generation Science Diplomat Committee
The University of the Arctic (UArctic) Thematic Network on Science Diplomacy has created a Next-Generation Science Diplomat Committee that is being co-led by: Dr. Susana Hancock (President 2022-2023 of the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists – APECS; Science Manager for Arctic Basecamp; Scientist with The Greenland Project and B2BI North Atlantic-Arctic Ocean Strategic Framework);…
REFORMING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH SCIENCE DIPLOMACY
There is global urgency, short-to-long term, to enhance diplomatic relations among nations and other actors across our globally-interconnected civilization. The 2023 Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation highlighted that “diplomacy’s methods, its key institutions and conventions were agreed more than six decades ago.” In specific, the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations was signed in 1961,…
GIYSCC-2024 Circling the Earth With Global Inclusion
Episode 2 of the Podcast Initiative with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) – an interview with Prof. Paul Arthur Berkman hosted by Ms. Seira Duncan, 2022 IASC Fellow (Social & Human Working Group) – describes the history of the Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change (GIYSCC) on August 9th, which grew from the…
AASCO-2
The Arena for the gap analysis of the existing Arctic Science Co-Operations (AASCO-2) project began its 2023-2025 dialogue in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, during the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) on 23-24 March 2024. This transdisciplinary project is funded by the Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco with the University of the Arctic (UArctic) as a…
Conflict or Common Interests? Negotiation Choices with Science Diplomacy
The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The seminar considers ways to strengthen the capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform ethnonational conflicts. Part One of a two-part Kelman Seminar series on common-interest building in negotiation…