Georgetown Collaborative Diplomacy Initiative GCDI

GCDI is funded and supported by Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service @georgetownsfs to explore non-traditional and creative forms of diplomacy.

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GCDI President Heerak Christian Kim is happy to share that GCDI has been nominated for The Outstanding Graduate Student Organization Award at 2020 Georgetown University Graduate Student Awards. Read the announcement below!

https://t.co/Y3mARVDmk2

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This event has been cancelled due to Georgetown University suspending all large gatherings at Georgetown University due to Coronavirus.

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GCDI will host 2020 Election Debate for Candidates of All Political Parties for US Congress in Virginia's 8th District (Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, & Fairfax County).

Date: Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 7 pm
Place: Gaston Hall

More Info (click):

https://t.co/mVQy7Qpf5e

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Everyone is focused on COVID-19 (coronavirus). But from Diplomacy perspective, is there a possibility of Russia invasion of the USA when USA is weakened as a nation? Russia has been wanting to invade the USA since before the Cold War. What are your thoughts? Let's talk diplomacy.

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GCDI will host 2020 Election Debate for Candidates of All Political Parties for US Congress in Virginia's 8th District (Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, & Fairfax County).

Date: Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 7 pm
Place: Gaston Hall

More Info (click):

https://t.co/mVQy7Qpf5e

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How vulnerable is the United States of America to coronavirus spread? Can people commuting to work via subway ("metro") get coronavirus from strangers? Doctors still do not know exactly how coronavirus spreads. Airborne? Contact of person or surface area?

https://t.co/EMTdNXM26z

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Ironically, reclusive countries, such as North Korea, are "safer" from coronavirus spread because their citizens are forbidden to travel outside of the country. Will North Korea capitalize on vulnerabilities in South Korea with Coronavirus to invade it?

https://t.co/qFS1j7GXlx

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One serious concern not discussed by most politicians is the problems that will be CAUSED by school closures to protect people from Coronavirus spread. Who will watch the children during the day? Some teens may engage in crimes, such as violence. Truancy?

https://t.co/GT8lYfhEX7

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Columbia University @Columbia, New York University @nyuniversity, and Cornell University @Cornell are urging students not to go to a foreign nation for Spring Break, for fear of bringing coronavirus back to campus that results in student deaths. Priority?

https://t.co/csalJ5uTvY

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University of Washington with its 50,000 students closed their college due to coronavirus (click below). Can this happen to other universities? Will students coming back from Spring Break carry coronavirus with them back to campus? Who can track them all?

https://t.co/zvs2Fe15Rv

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Italy is "locking down" major cities, like Milan and Venice. Can this happen in the United States? No one still knows what causes the spread of coronavirus and how to stop it definitively. There is no cure. What is the worst case scenario? Best scenario?

https://t.co/lPwUubUfcJ

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The US Military is taking aggressive steps to protect US soldiers from coronavirus. Is it possible that wars may be initiated by hostile nations, capitalizing on the coronavirus? Is US military prepared to respond in such a foreign military agression?

https://t.co/SjSW80yO0j

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Coronavirus seems to be having a serious impact on Chinese businesses in the United States. Will Chinese restaurant businesses around the USA be impacted? Is Healthcare Diplomacy needed? Who would practice such a diplomacy in this situation?

https://t.co/s9EyjCbWcg

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There are a lot of subtle and overt messaging in the 2020 Presidential Elections. What is the diplomatic message being sent by members of the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, to Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bloomberg? Read:

https://t.co/uHE0t1ogOH

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Super Tuesday is when many states, including Virginia, decides a Democratic Candidate. Many feel that it will be Biden or Sanders. Pete and Tom dropped out of the race. How would America look under Biden? Sanders? Others? What will happen to diplomacy?

https://t.co/O9O12gL3rW

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Diplomacy relates "comedy as couched truth." Saturday Night Live Cold Open from Saturday (2/29/20) portrays Democratic Presidential Candidates and Vice President Pence in comedic ways. What is being "messaged" and what "truth" lies behind the sketch?

https://t.co/IVguwFb2ve

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What is GAGE (Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees) doing about the University of California (UCSC) firing 54 graduate employees as they engaged in union strikes? Was a precedent set by the University of California, weakening unions in colleges?

https://t.co/AcVxPQwvVT

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University of California, Santa Cruz, (UCSC) just fired 54 graduate student teaching assistants for engaging in union strike. UCSC is considered one of the most liberal ("Progressive") colleges in the United States. What does this mean? Diplomacy impact?

https://t.co/eTCUAXz9zR

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There is CPAC 2020 in Washington, DC, right now. It is the biggest Conservative gathering in Washington, DC, which is annual. Conservative movement seems to be infused with more people of color. See the video of a main speaker at CPAC 2020:

https://t.co/6V1qh3sq2G

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Coronavirus seems to have begun to spread. Will America avoid the catastrophe that China faced with coronavirus?

https://t.co/6CNzMZlr8I

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Japan has taken the drastic step of shutting down all the schools over coronavirus. Is this something that can happen in your city? state?

https://t.co/vrDcGHovj4