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Strengthening America's Dialogue with the World

The Public Diplomacy Council of America is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) association of professionals and scholars promoting excellence in the professional practice, academic study, and advocacy for public diplomacy.

Our work

  • Honors practitioners’ achievements;
  • Helps members stay in touch and keep current with issues and new developments in global communications;
  • Mentors and trains professionals in this rapidly changing field;
  • Promotes understanding of the increasingly important public dimension of statecraft and;
  • Generates support for America’s global engagement.

Latest News

July 14: The essential role of partnership between public diplomacy and those pursuing economic and commercial progress

PDCA's July 14 Forum will focus on economic and commercial diplomacy and the role that public diplomacy plays.

PDCA Internship for Communication and Advocacy

PDCA announces an opening for a paid internship.

Video now available: 2025 Awards focus of June 2 First Monday Forum

PDCA's June 2 program featured the recipients of its 2025 awards.

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Memories of VOA, by Philip Brown

Retired Foreign Service Officer Philip Brown looks back at his career in diplomacy and finds the Voice of America a constant information source and invaluable instrument of statecraft.

Higher education, research, and the international image of the U.S. under the second Trump administration, by Deborah Cohn

Deborah Cohn shows how (1) education and research opportunities in the U.S. currently also function as modes of soft power, and (2) the Trump administration’s attacks on these...

Listening as a Best Practice in Advancing Public Diplomacy and Soft Power, by Adnan A. Siddiqi

Siddiqi draws from his experience to explain the importance of going beyond the words to understand what your counterparts think.

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