The Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada, wrote a kind letter acknowledging the diplomatic work of ICDiplomacy. Adnan Zuberi Director, ICDiplomacy (International Channels for Diplomacy)

Fostering communications and negotiations among youth in Ukraine, Russia and the West By Olga Stoliarchuk, April 27, 2015 Youth constitute the largest part of the population in many regions, thus the role of youth in recent globalization and cross-border processes is now more crucial than ever. Youth all over the world are not only contributing …

The War in Ukraine By Anastasia Popova, April 23, 2015 Do you remember that episode from “Forrest Gump”, when at an anti-war gathering next to the Lincoln Monument Forrest has started to speak passionately about the War in Vietnam and the sound went out while he had his say? Every time I write about the war …

Ukraine-Russia-West Conflict: Citizens Bypassing Official Channels Using Technology to Connect Conflicting Parties By Adnan Zuberi, March 23, 2015 How did ordinary citizens organize live diplomatic broadcasts between: – An Ukrainian national in Kyiv that is a journalist and now an elected MP, – Canada’s military college defense chair and UN peacekeeping panelist, and – a former …

On March 12, 2015, ICDiplomacy wrote the following open letter to Canada’s foreign affairs department, the Ukrainian Embassy in Canada, and the Russian Embassy in Canada.

Ukraine Crisis Nonviolence Bond Project Volunteers Adnan Zuberi Citizen Diplomat Canada Olga Stoliarchuk Citizen Diplomat Ukraine Aila Lonka Citizen Diplomat Denmark Kasper Worm-Peterson Citizen Diplomat Denmark  

 2015 Global Citizen Diplomacy Project  

This 4 minute segment features Daryl Copeland, Professor, former Canadian diplomat, and author of Guerrilla Diplomacy. He is a senior fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, and holds teaching appointments at Ottawa, East Anglia (UK — London Academy of Diplomacy) and Otago (NZ) Universities.

Lucy Bernholz is a philanthropy wonk. She is trying to understand how we create, fund, and distribute shared social goods in the digital age — what she calls The Future of Good. Bernholz is a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a Fellow with the Hybrid Reality Institute and …

Farah Pandith, the U.S. Special Representative to Muslim Communities talks about the Muslim engagement by the U.S. Department of State and the need to engage everyone to get results to the problems facing the whole world. She further stresses the importance of listening to what grass-roots and civil society has to say and enabling young …