CENTER FOR SCIENCE DIPLOMACY RELEASES ITS FIRST YEAR IN REVIEW

The Center for Science Diplomacy has released its first year in review. The Year in Review includes summaries of the many events held and publications written over the past year by the Center's staff. It also includes the testimony given by AAAS Chief Executive Officer Alan Leshner, on 15 July 2008 to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, during which announced the beginning of AAAS's Center for Science Diplomacy.
Year in Review (PDF 362KB)

The Center’s core activities are built on three key theme areas:

• Inspirational: Raising the profile of science diplomacy as an important element of a broader foreign policy mix by convening events and activities and building a community of stakeholders for science diplomacy activities;
• Operational: Assembling delegations and bilateral activities to put science diplomacy into action;
• Intellectual: Creating a foundation of literature and think pieces that identify and define key issues in science diplomacy and possible best practices.

The Center’s specific action will include:

• Analyze current and past domestic and international science diplomacy efforts and derive lessons learned from those that have succeeded;
• Characterize the major barriers to successful science diplomacy, such as educational and human resource issues, funding problems, or other policy issues; and
• Leverage existing and build new partnerships with appropriate stakeholders in both the scientific and the international affairs communities to develop new initiatives and projects and expand ongoing successful ones.