TEDxTbilisi - Amb. Diana Janse - The New Face of Diplomacy
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- čas přidán 7. 03. 2012
- Diana Janse challenges the traditional practices of diplomacy and proposes new directions for diplomats in the modern world.
Ambassador Janse joined the Swedish Foreign Service in 1999. Since then, she has served in Belgrade, Moscow, New York, Kabul and as political advisor to the EUSR for South Caucasus. After her tenure in Brussels, she was assigned a position in the cabinet of the Swedish Foreign Minister, serving as Minister Bildts special assistant and travel coordinator for more than three years. In September 2010, she was appointed Sweden's Ambassador to Georgia, and in March 2011 to Armenia as well.
Prior to joining the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Janse worked in the Ministry of Defense and in the Swedish Military Intelligence. She also spent one year as an interpreter for the UN forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 2010, Ambassador Janse published a book - En del av mitt hjärta lämnar jag kvar - about her work as the only Swedish diplomat in Afghanistan. In 2011, it was published in Georgian.
Ambassador Janse holds two degrees from Uppsala University, a Master in Political Science and a Bachelor in Russian Language and Literature. She lives in Tbilisi with her fiancé and her two adopted Georgian street cats.
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Love it!!!! This talk inspired my PhD research on changes in diplomacy.
1:27 omg you knew itttt
Thank You.
Points Agreed:
1. Specialist
2. Know the Language
3. Power/Economies are shifting. World is changing.
Great talk but I think this could have been taken a bit further by pointing out the intangibles within relations. Most diplomats today do not pay attention on how cultivate a sustainable fabric of relationships (As Yitzhak Rabin once said). But Ambassador Janse has reflected a very important point: diplomats need to elevate higher than within the physical reality, this means exploring and understanding the unseen components of relationships which we can also call "spiritual component of relationships" which is extremely overlooked. Diplomats today seem to follow processes by the book, which obviously may be one of the reasons why diplomacy fails. A diplomat needs courage to explore new places in depth in order to understand and identify themselves to certain issues. This, my beloved diplomats, is what will help influence the world for the best.
I whish to become like you one day. Thank you very much, beautiful talk
1:33 She literally made an possibility of COVID-19! 🤣🤣
I am hoping to become a diplomat and the diplomacy she describes at 8:00 is exactly what I want to participate in.
Give me an example of a state which was able to thrive through softpower independent of hardpower...
Austria-Hungary under Metternich.
exactly.
people say pen is mightier than the sword.
but only if u have guns backing up ur pen.
that's feminism.
modern day Germany
Japan - a nation without a military!
& all via Manga & anime (cool Japan), plus volunteers, both college-aged & retired folks, dispatched around the world via JICA.
I mean even the Arab Middle East LOVES Japan & the Mid. E. practically hates everybody! So, yes, diplomacy can be successful, especially if like the Japanese you've a flexible approach to reality & are not a fundamentalist about it!
she is so cute she can resolve any diplomatic issue :-) kidding aside, you are awesome Diana, I like your conclusion. Its the impact that matters but that takes power and power comes from stregth and strength is in knowledge, knowledge from curiosity and curiosity comes from peaceful mind = medication for me.
Diplomacy => Power => Strength => Knowledge => Curiosity => Peaceful Min ===> Meditation. :))) Nice chain of conclusions
What a mess!
Who is you?
One surprising thing that has become clear after listening to a couple of diplomats talk..they're not professional speakers/lecturers. Also quite lacking in any original insight or real substance. No wonder we have so many unresolved conflicts in the world when the schooling of diplomats produces mediocre results, and as pointed out in the talk concentrates on tea party activities....
anni collan agree
Can't generalise