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March 2014
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While the basics of diplomacy remain, namely the pursuit of foreign policy objectives and interests, this pursuit goes clearly beyond the national level, into the realm of regional and global interests and objectives. The modern day diplomatic academy seeks to provide learning and training not only to diplomats and national government officials, but it addresses much wider audiences, such as other State Agencies, NGOs, Business and Civil Society. The UWI’s Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean, the first of its kind, will reach out to a cross section of target groups and beneficiaries, beyond the strict confines of CARICOM, to all those involved in one way or the other in international cooperation and transactions. When it is launched in the middle of this year, it will meet a clearly felt need, in the absence of any proper training and learning facility regionally, to offer programmes in diplomacy at various levels and on diverse but relevant subjects.
New and innovative training techniques will be used in practical, hands-on modules. There will be experience sharing and learning as well as networking with the best expertise regionally and internationally. For further information, please contact andy.knight@sta.uwi.edu.
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There is no doubt that the challenges of modern international relations and diplomacy demand evolving learning and training.
The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean is a joint project between the Government of Trinidad & Tobago and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and The University of the West Indies through its Institute of International Relations, established initially on a two-year project basis. While an integral part of The UWI and its Institute of International Relations, the Diplomatic Academy will have a separate identity and mandate.