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Week 8: Multi-Track Diplomacy
For Week 8, we read "What is Multi-Track Diplomacy?" from the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy.
The following questions are suggestions to help generate discussion in your small discussion groups. You may also respond to them through this forum.
-Before multi-track diplomacy, how did governments approach diplomacy?
-Why do you think multi-track diplomacy is more effective than the "Track One, Track Two" model?
-Pick one track and discuss how it can be used to improve a society, and why it's important to include in multi-track diplomacy.
-How can some of the concepts behind multi-track diplomacy be applied in a community setting?
Before multi-track diplomacy, communication and interaction is between governments.
Multi-track diplomacy takes on a holistic approach versus the linear thinking approach of the “Track One, Track Two” model. It recognizes that conflicts cannot be truly resolved by governments only. Sustainable peace can only be obtained by involving non-government actors, civil society and other informal channels.
Track 9- Communications and the Media, or Peacemaking through Information. This is the realm of the voice of the people: how public opinion gets shaped and expressed by the media-print, film, video, radio, electronic systems, the arts.
Information is power. People can be persuaded by information in the media. Media brings information and information brings awareness.
It is important to share information on parties involved in order to facilitate negotiation and in resolving conflicts. It is easy to bomb a stranger thousands of miles high in the air. It is a different matter when one is kill a friend.
Multi-track diplomacy encourages us to look beyond the official channels and work with other informal channels. Whether we follow the track exactly is not the significant learning here. Breaking out of single track thinking and getting into a holistic, matrix thinking is critical to our success in resolving conflicts.