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- Is the African Union equipped to serve Africa's people for another 50 years? | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja http://t.co/Oa6EW7Fsvi via @guardian 06:08:04 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Nigeria’s Boko Haram offensive: Officials sing hallelujah but forget history http://t.co/sgRaNPlylF 06:04:20 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @USAinUK: The US will provide up to $96 million in support of the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) http://t.co… 06:00:05 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
- EU mission seeks to rebuild Mali army after U.S. faltered http://t.co/fe0ek4yFVA via @reuters 05:59:27 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Mali in Transition Conference at SOAS on 29th and 30th May 2013 http://t.co/uVk6iIrEln http://t.co/zolv3ARgu7 #yam 05:58:36 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Mali in Transition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | SOAS, University of London http://t.co/QaUlwwF4fp 05:57:45 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- Somalia counts on telecoms sector for revival of economy http://t.co/eJ4zXtamjQ via @The_EastAfrican 05:54:58 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @AJStream: What challenges do you think the #AfricanUnion faces? #Africa - http://t.co/BLrZsZtsF9 05:52:33 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Sudan - Anatomy of a Conflict-New Report From Harvard Humanitarian Initiative http://t.co/JVFkA2Ndd1 05:44:02 am 05-22-13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
Tag Archives: strategic communications
Strategic communication in the foreign policy, development and security arena – what’s that all about?
It’s about contributing to policy and guidance, providing strategic counsel, nurturing linkages and relationships between policy mechanisms, coordinating between national, international and non-governmental entities. It’s about communicating in a highly charged, ethically challenging, fast moving, traditional and digital, multi-spectral, politically … Continue reading
Posted in strategic communication
Tagged Master Class, policy, strategic communications
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Forward to basics: the communications debate in post-McChrystal Afghanistan
As Washington Post columnist David Ignatius noted recently, the Rolling Stone article that did for Gen Stanley McChrystal is a “wake-up call for both sides [the military and the press] that the cosiness that has evolved over the past decade.” … Continue reading
The Matter with Mogadishu?
The British public is used to Afghanistan, bored by Iraq and probably indifferent to Somalia. The benighted country in the Horn of Africa tends to enter our consciousness only when pirates pop up and kidnap British ships, sailors and the … Continue reading
Posted in somalia
Tagged AMISOM, people of somalia, somalia, strategic communications, tfg
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Yemen’s one dimension in the Western media
Until very recently, only Mauritania among the Arab countries attracted less attention in the British media than Yemen. Not any more: since 25 December 2009, Yemen is mentioned more than any other Arab country except Iraq. The past month alone … Continue reading
Posted in Yemen
Tagged communications strategy, narrative, strategic communications, Yemen
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Afghanistan: “Build it and they will come?”
Of the main outcomes to emerge from the London Conference, helping reintegrate Taliban fighters via support for a Peace and Reintegration Trust Fund and negotiations with the Taliban have taken centre stage. As the conference communiqué put it, there is … Continue reading
Editing Afghanistan: An increasingly dissonant message
In response to the ever-increasing groundswell of voices in the media questioning the continuing wisdom behind the British role in Afghanistan, General Sir Richard Dannatt said on the BBC flagship Nine O’Clock news programme last week: “There are those out … Continue reading
Crisis Communications according to Alastair Campbell..
At Albany Associates 2009 conference on ‘Strategic Communications in countries emerging from violent conflict‘, Alastair Campbell shared lessons of his experience dealing with a number of crises. He listed fifteen rules: 1. Know … Continue reading
Posted in new media, UK Government
Tagged conference, crisis communications, strategic communications
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The changing theatre of Strategic Communications
The Albany Associates London conference on strategic communications noted some success in its practice in the 1990s, but a catalogue of failures in the 21st century. Why has the wisdom gleaned from the former not informed the latter? The practice … Continue reading
Posted in afghanistan, Africa, darfur, somalia, sudan, UK Government
Tagged communications strategy, conference, strategic communications
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Message Creep in Afghanistan
Following the two day Albany Associates conference on strategic communications held in London recently, one thing stands out. Given the accumulated wisdom of the past few decades in the broad field of strategic communications, why are there still such problems … Continue reading
Posted in afghanistan, Africa, Lebanon, somalia, sudan, UK Government
Tagged afghanistan, communications strategy, conference, kosovo, strategic communications
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Strategic Comms Conference: New Media
Here in the bunker – it is a rather swish conference room but there’s a serious shortage of natural light – we’ve been looking at new media and strategic communications. Three themes from the new media panel and this morning’s … Continue reading
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