Multilateral Diplomacy

Online Course

Multilateral Diplomacy in Practice: Framework, Actors, Engagement and Negotiations

Starts 02 of December

The online course in Multilateral Diplomacy equips participants with a strong understanding of key concepts and practical strategies to navigate the evolving global diplomatic landscape. It prepares diplomats to seize opportunities through multilateral engagement and effectively implement strategies with real impact.

Led by top experts, the course follows the latest diplomatic education trends and aims to train the next generation of leaders for 21st-century diplomacy. Participants will explore challenges facing international organizations like the UN and WTO, focusing on issues like trade, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change. The course also highlights alternative approaches, including multi-stakeholder diplomacy, to address emerging global challenges.

Course Curriculum

The format of the online course in Multilateral Diplomacy consists of a comprehensive set of online modules available to diplomats, professionals, students and trainee diplomats. The topics within the course will correspond directly to the pillars of multilateral Diplomacy concept, therefore providing recipients with the most recent theoretical and practical knowledge in the area.

The Online Course in Multilateral Diplomacy is a practical course that covers topics focusing on different aspects, stakeholders, channels and practices that constitutes the framework of Multilateral Diplomacy.  The course aims at enhancing practitioners skills in a globalised and interdependent issues as well as to strengthen the skills relevant to operating within a changing world.

Course Outcomes

  • Understanding the framework of Multilateral diplomacy

  • Learning the practice of Multilateral diplomacy from practitioners and via real-life case studies

  • Grasping the process of Identifying diplomatic opportunities through Multilateral routes

  • Acquiring an In-depth knowledge of relating multilateral work to diplomacy and global affairs

  • Developing transferable knowledge and skills necessary to advance to every field

Course Leaders

  • Dr. Jennifer Cassidy: Departmental Lecturer in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford
  • Shaun Riordan; Director of the Department for Diplomacy and Cyberspace in the European Institute of International Studies

Modules

  • Module 1 : Multilateral Diplomacy: Introduction and Global and Regional Governance System

  • Module 2: Multilateral Diplomacy framework and Stakeholders: Trade, Health, Transnational crimes, conflicts and Climate

  • Module 3: Multilateral Diplomacy In practice: Engagement and Negotiations

  • Module 4: New Fronts for Multilateral Diplomacy: Space, and the Internet

Course Fees:

The course fee us £395 - See below for enrolment options:

1- Individual course access: access this course for 12 month  ( £395) 

2- Monthly access plan : access all GDF academy courses for a month (£79 per month )

3- Annual access plan : access all GDF academy courses for a year ( £49 per month paid annually )

4- Institutions Access Plan : For Embassies or Ministries to enrol a certain number of staff

Check below the benefits of each option

Enrolment Options