About the Organization
Indian Forum for Public Diplomacy (IFPD) is a youth-run forum by students from all over India with the aim of aiding foreign policy thinking through young academia. In an era in which Foreign Policy has to be rooted in the landscape of people, diplomacy is no more just a government to government engagement.
The idea of Public Diplomacy advocates the engagement of people into a participatory Foreign Policy and reform process. In the age of the 21st century, where global co-operation is sporadic and the consensus is elusive, it is imperative to drive foreign policy and reform through people. The society hence engages to bring forth initiatives through research, opinion, dialogue, and debate to catalyze global cooperation and enhance Indian Public diplomacy.
About the Webinar
The unprecedented crisis of the COVID -19 pandemic has brought several changes in the dynamics of how nations engage with each other. As nations stumble into the third decade of the century amidst much uncertainty, projecting a world view in the near future has been one of the key challenges in Foreign Policy. For India, making strategic choices, anticipating behaviors of the players, prioritizing interests, and communicating these interests effectively, requires not only a comprehensive and analytical understanding of the changing world but also an understanding of the implications of such changes to the Indian Foreign policy, for making sound decisions and choices. It is pivotal in an uncertain world to anticipate how much a shift in the world’s thinking would transform and affect our decisions.
Theme
Learnings from 2020 – Changing International Dynamics and implications for India
Guest Speaker
Mr. Prateek Kanwal, Founder, Citizens for Public Leadership (CPL)
Speaker Profile
Mr. Prateek Kanwal is the founder of Citizens for Public Leadership (CPL). He is a World Bank Scholar and a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School of United States. For over a decade he has worked across various government and private sectors nationally and internationally and has endeavored in the execution of some critical policies in the education sector. He is currently also the head of Strategic Partnerships to Educate Girls an NGO that aims at tackling issues of gender inequality in India’s education. Mr. Prateek has also worked with the planning commission on the Aadhar (UIDAI) Project where he published a working paper on linking Aadhar to student scholarships which were translated to an active policy. He is currently setting up a state of art policy school, the Kautilya School of Public Policy in Hyderabad.
Date: 07th January 2021
Time: 6:00 PM IST
Registration
Registrations Link (Register by 05th January 2021) :
https://forms.gle/by2oKw6c1zTZaZXH6
Webinar link shall be sent on 6th January 2021
Contact
Any queries can be addressed to [email protected]