{"id":6967,"date":"2012-11-28T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2012-11-28T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T13:03:37","slug":"an-international-diplomacy-consultancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/an-international-diplomacy-consultancy\/","title":{"rendered":"An International Diplomacy Consultancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112712_0511_AnInternati1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cristina Odone wrote about Independent Diplomat \u2013 a consultancy that helps marginalized non-state actors gain access to the upper echelons of diplomats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Independent Diplomat helps set up meetings between the world&#8217;s top decision makers, such as members of the security council, and those who want to present a case to them.<\/li>\n<li>It played a role in helping South Sudan become its own state and it is currently working with Somaliland, Kosovo, and the Marshall Islands among others.<\/li>\n<li>While it is a consultancy, it is not a lobbyist organization. It does not make the case for its clients, rather, it creates a forum where its clients can have their voices heard.<\/li>\n<li>It is also selective about the groups it chooses to work with. They only help &#8220;the good guys&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/26\/can_you_save_diplomacy_from_itself\">full article<\/a> offers a fuller critical perspective of what Independent Diplomat is and what it is trying to do, as well as its place in a changing international system. If you&#8217;re interested in the topic, it&#8217;s well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/26\/can_you_save_diplomacy_from_itself\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina Odone wrote about Independent Diplomat \u2013 a consultancy that helps marginalized non-state actors gain access to the upper echelons of diplomats: Independent Diplomat helps set up meetings between the world&#8217;s top decision makers, such as members of the security council, and those who want to present a case to them. It played a role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112712_0511_AnInternati1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6978,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions\/6978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}