2022-10-19

Expert Roundtable on Public Diplomacy in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia

On 19 October 2022, Expert Roundtable on "Public Diplomacy in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia: Local Actors, Global Actions" was conducted at the OSCE Academy. The roundtable was held within the framework of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program "Institutional Change and Social Practice. Research on the Political System, Economy and Society in Central Asia and Caucasus," jointly run by Bielefeld University and Technical University Dortmund and supported by Volkswagen Foundation. The roundtable was organized by the OSCE Academy and Dr. Aijan Sharshenova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, and was moderated by Dr. Sharshenova.

Experts and practitioners in foreign policy, public diplomacy and soft power, discussed varieties, formats and contents of global public diplomacy efforts by Central Asian actors. The key purpose of this workshop was to increase awareness and understanding of soft power and public diplomacy’s implementation by Central Asian countries.