Garcevic Speaks at School for Young Diplomats
Amb. Vesko Garcevic, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Frederick S.Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, participated at the 10th Montenegrin Summer School for Young Diplomats Gavro Vuković co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro and UN Development Program Montenegro.
Garcevic delivered a lecture entitled “The Powerful Soft Power: The Importance of Public Diplomacy/Montenegro’s Public Campaign for NATO Membership.” He highlighted a noticeable role of public diplomacy in international relations, its indivisible place in promotion of interests and values countries stand for and the growing importance of social media in today’s diplomacy. The public campaign for NATO membership of Montenegro is taken as an example how public diplomacy works in a challenging social and political setting, according to Garcevic.
The list of guest lecturers at the Summer Diplomatic School included Montenegrin ministers and other state officials, representatives of the diplomatic core in Montenegro, the Directors of the Diplomatic Academies from Vienna, Austria and Zagreb, Croatia, as well as faculty from the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University. Deliberations during this eight-day seminar were centered around issues pertinent to global security/asymmetric threats, stability in the Western Balkans and Mediterranean and diplomatic negotiations.
More than 50 young diplomats from 29 countries attended the 10th Montenegrin Summer School for Young Diplomats. Over the past ten years, this internationally recognized diplomatic school created alumni of several hundred young diplomats and lecturers from over 40 countries of the world and established cooperation with a few prestigious academic institutions such as the School for Advanced International Studies and the Clingendal Institute from the Hague, the Netherlands.
During his diplomatic career, Amb. Vesko Garcevic dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He had been a Montenegro’s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as a Montenegro’s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School.