Projects

Our Teaching Work:

Courses in Diplomatic Arts

(Current and Upcoming)

Clusters and Tailor-Made

Just as it has been for centuries, the world of diplomacy remains a staggeringly demanding place. Customarily, we expect its dwellers to display the brightest schooling, especially when they are to navigate through the ocean of cultures and mentalities.

Mastering the diplomatic profession (in any of its contemporary forms) will always be a journey towards perfection. François de Callières (1645-1717), one of the greatest diplomatists of the past, defined the final destination of this odyssey as becoming ‘the enlightened and assiduous negotiator‘.

To assist those who feel such a calling, the Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts offers a number of its course clusters and tailor-made courses.

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Seminar Series:

Media Literacy

at the International Level:

Media Evaluation, and Media Analysis

in Modern Diplomatic Pracrice

and Public Dipomacy

Ongoing in 2025

(since February 2024)

This set of seminars is focused on those capabilities that are indispensable for effective communication with foreign governments and publics.

With the help of seasoned professionals in the realm of media, the Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts provides a practice-oriented instruction on the methodology of working with the media abroad, especially in relation to productive promoting the messages of one’s government or civil society, as well as to countering malign flows of disinformation.

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Monitoring Practicums:

Russia’s History-Focused Propaganda

Abroad

Engaging Universities 

in Fighting Disinformation 

at the International

Level

The Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts is conducting the series of practicums tasked with monitoring the Kremlin’s quasi-historical discourses and their circulation in different countries of the world.

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Our Teaching and Training Work:

The KSDA Course:

Historical Narratives

in International Politics 

Training Program 

for Future Professionals

in Public Diplomacy

 

The Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts offers a new course Historical Narratives in International Politics.

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Our Project

Civic Education vs. Disinformation:

 Countering

Fake Histories 

in International Politics 

and Propaganda 

Aggressive players on the international arena have always capitalized on disunity and division among bordering countries, especially if the publics of the latter may tend to disagree in the matters of collective identities, memory politics, and national histories.

Over the years, the malicious manipulative tactics in the said dimension have been consistently employed by the russian federation in its effort to destabilize the situation on the European continent. In multifold cases, the Kremlin attempted to utilize any traits of cultural (esp. interethnic) prejudices, the controversies over conflicting interpretations of historical events, and other similar discords in order to deflect the states of Eastern/Central-Eastern Europe from building a solid alliance of democratic societies.

The principal role in this geopolitical iniquity belongs to specifically targeted disinformation campaigns aimed to support legitimization-seeking (and predominantly populistic) quasi-historical discourses.

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Our Seminar:

Manners and Diplomacy

The History

of the (Un)Holly Alliance

The Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts is happy to announce the launch of our recurring Seminar “Manners and Diplomacy”.

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Our Workshop:

Intercultural

Competencies

in Public Diplomacy

Master Classes for Educators and Students

In the collection of his posthumously published writings, the Testament Politique, Armand Jean de Plessis de Richelieu (1585-1642), Chief minister to Louis XIII of France and a fabulous titan of European diplomacy, left to posterity an omnium-gatherum of particularly practical wisdom. Among other treasures of the said trove, there is one that ventilates a rather obvious fact – id est “different nations have different characters“.  With the combination of grandeur and shrewdness, the sage cardinal pontificated that such distinctiveness was to be reckoned with at all times.

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Our Program:

Diplomacy Simulations

Simulation Games

in Diplomatic Training

Seminar Series

for Educators and Students

Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), a topflight theorist of diplomacy’s phenomenon and an urbane virtuoso of its practice, gave the most careful thought to the matter of “the Ideal Diplomatist“.

The subject is elegantly pondered about in Chapter V of Nicolson’s famous treatise Diplomacy – the work that has been reverentially perused by the enthusiasts of the profession since the book’s first publication in 1939.

A paragon of diplomatic trade, according to this text, is to display the following qualities: truth, accuracy, calm, good temper, modesty, and loyalty. That, continues Sir Harold, needs to be buttressed by intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage, “and even tact”.

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Our Training Series:

Building

the Public Diplomacy

Curriculum:

Seminars for University Educators

To see itself through the travails and miscommunications of today’s geopolitics, Ukraine requires its very own corps of tip-top professionals in public diplomacy.

The training of such experts is impossible without the cohort of dedicated educators well-equipped with the knowledge of the most efficient teaching approaches.

With the aforementioned argument in mind, the Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts conducts a new instruction program for the faculty members of Ukrainian universities.

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Our Project:

Diplomacy and Literature:

The Round-Table Series

In his most celebrated work, the Guide to Diplomatic Practice, Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929), a great authority in conceptualizing Diplomacy, gave a very elegant description of the qualities he saw as indispensable for a diplomat.

“A mind trained by the study of the best literature, and by that of history” – is a phrase in Satow’s most thoughtful check-list one cannot ignore.

The Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts has chosen the cited formula as the main theme for a round table series we are happy to carry out alongside our other activities.

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International Online

Conference

Intercultural Communication

and Public Diplomacy:

Effective Education

for Future Peacebuilders

November 25-26, 2020

The Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts, munificently supported by the Black Sea Trust of the German Marshall Fund (USA) and the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), had the honour to host a splendidly insightful colloquy that confederated a group of eminent scholars and diplomatists with a very diverse international audience.

The purpose of this two-day gathering was to launch a series of further collaboration-oriented symposia on the following matters:

• How the studies pertaining to intercultural communication and public diplomacy should evolve in order to meet the challenges of today’s world?
• What is the best place for such instruction in the higher education curriculum?
• What agenda for intercultural communication and public diplomacy should define the post-university training of early career professionals in diplomatic service and other fields of international interactions?
• How the schooling in question may encompass both theoretical and cases-based knowledge regarding cultural heritage, identities, and mentalities, as well as national minorities, indigenous peoples, and diasporas?

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Our Project:

Intercultural Diplomacy, National Communities, and Higher Learning:

Networking for Effective Education

of Future Peacebuilders

Eastern Europe (especially the region of the Black Sea) is a multinational, multiethnic, and multicultural area. Mutual understanding among its nations and ethnic entities is absolutely paramount for peace and stability in this part of the world.

We believe that the representatives of Ukraine’s national minorities and indigenous peoples may play a key role in the cultural bridge-building among the region’s communities. In equal measure, they can be resourceful contributors to the resolution of the ongoing conflicts and to the institutional integration of our country with the commonwealth of transatlantic democracies.

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Our Project:

Professional Opportunities in International Relations:

The Seminar Series

A thorough dialogue with Ukraine’s young people

on careers in international relations and diplomacy

is one of our School’s

priorities.

The realm of international relations is a universe of various professional opportunities. In order to comprehend this expanse and to find a right path in it, students need to start shaping their future careers from the earliest stages of university education.

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