Pardee School Partners with UNITAR on Science Diplomacy Executive Training
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University joined other leading education and research organizations in partnering with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in delivering an executive training program on Innovations in Science Diplomacy (June 21-July 2, 2021).
The high-level training program brought together participants from more than a dozen countries and a faculty and experts team of senior scholars and policy makers from multiple disciplines and institutional expertise. In addition to Dean Adil Najam who served on the core faculty for the course, Pardee School professors Vesko Garčević, Erik Goldstein, Paul Webster Hare, Henrik Selin, Mark Storella, and Jack Weinstein led various sessions during the two-week executive training.
The goal of UNITAR’s Executive Summer Programme on Innovations in Science Diplomacy is to triangulate education, research and leadership and to educate a next generation of leaders in the field of science diplomacy and technology, facilitate research with questions and data that generate actions with evidence and options that contribute to informed decision-making, and provide leadership with science-diplomacy networks that build common interests across our globally-interconnected civilization.
The executive training is offered as a partnership between UNITAR and multiple Boston-based institutions including – in addition to the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University – Harvard Law School; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Science Diplomacy Center; and Swissnex in Boston.