Description
Unit 1: Understanding Disruption in Global Affairs
Introduces disruption types and their diplomatic implications.
Learning Objectives:
– Define crisis diplomacy and its role in foreign service.
– Recognize the diplomatic implications of pandemics, coups, and disasters.
Content: Introduces disruption types and their diplomatic implications.
Activity: Create a disruption scenario catalog and impact map.
Assessment: Scenario catalog submission and rubric.
Unit 2: Pandemics and Public Health Emergencies
Explores diplomatic roles in health emergencies and transnational contagion.
Learning Objectives:
– Recognize the diplomatic implications of pandemics, coups, and disasters.
– Analyze institutional and national responses to global disruptions.
Content: Explores diplomatic roles in health emergencies and transnational contagion.
Activity: Draft a diplomatic cable during a public health emergency.
Assessment: Cable assessment and peer review.
Unit 3: Coup Diplomacy and Rapid Regime Changes
Analyzes foreign service response to coups and political instability.
Learning Objectives:
– Analyze institutional and national responses to global disruptions.
– Design emergency protocols and continuity of mission plans.
Content: Analyzes foreign service response to coups and political instability.
Activity: Develop a protocol for diplomatic engagement post-coup.
Assessment: Protocol design scoring guide.
Unit 4: Natural Disasters, Displacement, and Humanitarian Coordination
Examines humanitarian response frameworks and mobility challenges.
Learning Objectives:
– Design emergency protocols and continuity of mission plans.
– Coordinate international assistance and resource deployment.
Content: Examines humanitarian response frameworks and mobility challenges.
Activity: Design a humanitarian assistance coordination plan.
Assessment: Coordination plan project evaluation.
Unit 5: Crisis Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
Focuses on media messaging, digital engagement, and narrative control.
Learning Objectives:
– Coordinate international assistance and resource deployment.
– Communicate with media and stakeholders during crisis situations.
Content: Focuses on media messaging, digital engagement, and narrative control.
Activity: Write a media holding statement and press FAQ.
Assessment: Press statement clarity and tone rubric.
Unit 6: Continuity of Diplomatic Operations
Provides tools for operating missions under severe disruption.
Learning Objectives:
– Communicate with media and stakeholders during crisis situations.
– Maintain alliances and trust during unpredictable environments.
Content: Provides tools for operating missions under severe disruption.
Activity: Build a continuity of operations checklist for an embassy.
Assessment: Continuity checklist and mission audit.
Unit 7: International Crisis Assistance and Multilateral Response
Reviews donor coordination and international response efforts.
Learning Objectives:
– Maintain alliances and trust during unpredictable environments.
– Respond ethically and effectively to evolving security conditions.
Content: Reviews donor coordination and international response efforts.
Activity: Map interagency response actors and flowcharts.
Assessment: Flowchart submission and policy memo.
Unit 8: Security Risk Assessment and Ethical Leadership
Prepares diplomats to lead ethically and securely in hostile conditions.
Learning Objectives:
– Respond ethically and effectively to evolving security conditions.
– Simulate decision-making in rapidly changing crisis scenarios.
Content: Prepares diplomats to lead ethically and securely in hostile conditions.
Activity: Facilitate a role-play on ethical dilemmas in volatile settings.
Assessment: Ethics role-play debrief and reflection paper.
Unit 9: Simulation: Responding to a Diplomatic Emergency
Engages students in a dynamic decision-making simulation.
Learning Objectives:
– Simulate decision-making in rapidly changing crisis scenarios.
– Develop a disruption-resilient diplomatic engagement strategy.
Content: Engages students in a dynamic decision-making simulation.
Activity: Lead a country team simulation during a global crisis.
Assessment: Simulation participation and scenario critique.
Unit 10: Capstone: Crisis-Ready Diplomatic Engagement Strategy
Concludes with strategy development for resilient diplomacy.
Learning Objectives:
– Develop a disruption-resilient diplomatic engagement strategy.
– Define crisis diplomacy and its role in foreign service.
Content: Concludes with strategy development for resilient diplomacy.
Activity: Deliver a full strategy for disruption-resilient diplomacy.
Assessment: Capstone strategy paper and final presentation.
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