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Arm Yourself with Books
“You want weapons? We're in a library. Books. Best weapons in the world. This room is the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!”I have spent the past week finding out about the media in Afghanistan. I embarked each morning once the suici...
Britains Whispered Policy on Zimbabwe
I awoke this morning to the news that the Security Council has vetoed sanctions in Zimbabwe (yes, I had fallen asleep with my laptop in bed with me again). The British representative said the UN had “failed the people of Zimbabwe”Recently in Blog...
What is Strategic Communications? Spin?
Strategic Communications or “StratComm” (depending which circles you mix in) seems to have seeped across the pond into Britain. Academics are still trying to define the term which is being used in the States for everything from traditional PR, se...
The Media as a Public Diplomacy Channel
When people think about “communications” they sometimes think of telephones, or if slightly more in the know, they think of the media. In my work I am often at pains to explain that if you have a message, the media may not always be the best meth...
"Rice urges Arabs to support Palestinians"...should she?
OK so it is not just the celebrities doing the patronising finger wagging. You would think Condi Rice would be better versed in public diplomacy (it was pretty public, right? She didn’t take “the Arabs” aside and have a quiet word in their shel...
