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CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN LATIN AMERICA
Can Cultural Diplomacy Lift Jamaica’s Brand Quality?
[from http://humejohnson.wordpress.com] By Hume N. Johnson, PhD In her swearing in speech on January 6, 2011, Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller acknowledged, inter alia, that included in her mandate is the imperative to ‘protect the good name of Jamaica at home and in the international community’. Jamaica, she stressed, must remain for all, a quality brand’. … Continue reading
Paradise on fire
By Dorota Mazur The American Dream… what does the American Dream mean to Latin American people nowadays? Do they still believe that on the other side of the Rio Grande every wish can come true? Taking Route 375 from El Paso towards the Mexican border, through the little openings in the fence that divides USA … Continue reading
Connected Walls
A new way on the web to increase solidarity and build capacities between communities separated by border walls A documentary webproject by Sebastien Wielemans During 2 months, « Connected Walls », a documentary webcontest, will bring the audience in 3 different areas separated by walls: the border between Mexico and USA; the wall between Israël and the West … Continue reading
From the crisis to miracle
by Dorota Mazur While the West is falling, the economies of the big four are growing. In Russia and China this is at the expense of human rights. In India, for the price of increasing inequalities and political tensions. Then how is it possible that whilst Brazil becomes richer and richer, it also successfully reduces … Continue reading
A Short story of one gold potato
By Dorota Mazur At the beginning of the 16th century Francisco Pizzaro conquered the craggy lands of Peru. His first intention is not hard to guess; he came in search of gold in the new territory. Atahualp, the leader of the Indian tribe, was somewhat baffled as to the white people’s desire to possess that … Continue reading
“We need societies impregnated of literature” – ‘The Dream of the Celt’, a lecture of the Nobel Prize writer Mario Vargas Llosa at the International Literature Festival (Berliner Fiestspiele)
by Giuseppe Colucci photos by Alexandra Vagi Mario Vargas Llosa is an enigmatic character, always torn between his ideologies and his confrontation with the reality of life. This is especially true in a country, such as his beloved Peru, where the spirit of a socialist change that was going to spread into the most of … Continue reading
South America’s Changing Religious Demograhics
By Michael Hanson. Whereas most current religious conflicts in Africa and Europe involve Muslim and Christian populations, the continent of South America has mirrored Ireland and Glasgow in recent years, with the main tensions arising between Catholics and Protestants. While the number of Christians has been dramatically increasing in sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia, in … Continue reading
Intra- and International Cultural Diplomacy for Bolivia
by Shamara Wettimuny. Bolivian Ambassador HE Maria Souviron, at our London Arts Conference. Over the course of this conference we have heard a lot about the significance of cultural diplomacy within the international realm. HE Souviron however, reminded us of the importance of cultural exchange within domestic politics. The case of Bolivia demonstrates the oppression … Continue reading
Ten Years On—A Rebranded Argentina?
By Dimitri Macmillen. Beyond its fine wine, tango and Maradona, little is genuinely known of Argentina outside of South America. Whenever Argentina is alluded to in terms of international significance, it appears to me as if little extends beyond the longstanding Malvinas dispute and the lessons invoked from its default in 2001—especially given the current … Continue reading
Globalization Versus Development? The Intricacy of Long-Term Development in Papua New Guinea
By Clarissa Baerenfaenger- ICD Program Coordinator “The ´flow´ of capital does not cover the globe, it connects discrete points on it” (Ferguson 2005:379). The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines globalization as the “the act of globalizing“; from the noun “global“ meaning “pertaining to or involving the whole world“, “worldwide“; “universal“. The United Nations Poverty and … Continue reading
