Developing virtual diplomacy

Developing "Virtual Diplomacy" involves an effort to explore how the information revolution is transforming the world. The objective is to conduct assessment beyond the issue of the effects of new information technologies on organizations and the way they do business to an exploration of the significance of these developments have for managing international conflict. The objective is to assess how the global information revolution is creating new possibilities for preventing, managing, and resolving international conflict.

1. Governments have been sluggish, relative to the private sector, in adopting the advanced technologies of information processing and communications for diplomacy work.

1. Using diplomacy
2. Developing internet

1. Developing practical procedures for dispute management

1. Increasing preventive diplomacy
2. Increasing effectiveness of diplomacy
3. Advocating cooperation and diplomacy in international political alliances
4. Advancing conflict resolution

1. Guarding established diplomacy

1. Studying diplomatic relations
2. Managing information chaos

1. The United States Institute of Peace
2. Virtual Exchange Coalition
3. Virtual Diplomacy: Rethinking Foreign Policy Practice in the Information Age
4. World: Internet Spawns A 'Virtual Diplomacy
5. Virtual diplomacy – a new way of conducting international affairs?