Science Diplomacy

In collaboration with Paul Berkman (Professor at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University), Professor Susskind is helping to create the new Tufts Science Diplomacy Center. The Center sponsors a series of training activities around the world including an annual Science Diplomacy Dissertation Enhancement Workshop in the early fall academic term for Boston-area doctoral students - in conjunction with the Science Diplomacy Program of the American Academic for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Science diplomacy is an important new area of research and practice that fosters closer collaboration between science and diplomacy and seeks to create constructive international partnerships. Professor Susskind, with Professor Noel Selin in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science (EAPS) at MIT, are developing and testing new ways of incorporating negotiation and policy advisory skill-building into advanced doctoral study. The Mercury Game, developed by the Science Impact Collaborative, is being incorporated into the training programs being sponsored by the Center for Science Diplomacy at AAAS.

For more information about the 2018 Boston Science Diplomacy Workshop, click here.

 

Resources

L. Susskind and Islam, S., “Water Diplomacy: Creating Value and Building Trust in Transboundary Water Negotiations”, Science and Diplomacy, vol. 1, no. 3, 2012.
N. E. Selin, Stokes, L., and Susskind, L., “The need to build policy literacy into climate science education”, WIRES Climate Change, vol. 8, no. 3, 2016.
C. Donnelly, Boyd, I., Campbell, P., Craig, C., Vallance, P., Walport, M., Whitty, C., Woods, E., and Wormald, C., “Four Principles for Synthesizing Evidence”, Nature, vol. 558, 2018.
L. Stokes, Susskind, L., and Selin, N., “The Mercury Negotiation Simulation: Explore the consequences of representing scientific uncertainty in a policy context”. Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law School, 2014.

“American Association for the Advancement of Science”. 2018.
“Tuft's Science Diplomacy Center”. 2018.

J. Borton and Ewing, J., “As Nations Fight for Control, South China Sea Coral Reefs are Dying in Silence”, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2179756/nations-fight-control-south-china-sea-coral-reefs-are.