The Abba Eban Institute For International Diplomacy (Israel)
The Abba Eban Institute For International Diplomacy (Israel)[edit]
The Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy is a research institute at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center that focuses on solutions for problems facing Israeli diplomacy.
The head of the institute is Ron Prosor, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and the United Kingdom, and former director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The goals for the institute are:[edit]
- To research Israel’s challenges at the global arena.
- To shed light on the the institutional anti-Israel agenda in many international organizations and to uncover the forces that are navigating the policy-makers in those organizations.
- To create a supportive pro-Israel environment with American policy-makers, international democratic allies and with American public opinion to fight against the BDS movement and anti-Israel discrimination at the UN
The Institute works through three main channels: the Diplomatic Counter-Terrorism Desk, the Diplomacy 2030 Desk, and the Academic Desk.
- The Diplomatic Counter-Terrorism Desk: Operates against international anti-Israeli trends.
- The Diplomacy 2030 Desk: Develops tools and offer guidance to Israel’s Foreign Service.
- The Academic Desk: Harnessing the tools of the IDC in Herzliya, to help achieve the goals of the institute.
Research programs and campaigns[edit]
The Abba Eban Institute is conducting researches specializing on International Diplomacy. The results of The Abba Eban Institute work are published in books, articles and media campaigns. Likewise, the Institute hosts conferences on International Diplomacy.
- The UNaccountable Project: The UNaccountable action plan is designed to provide the United States Congress with facts, figures and up-to-date data about the United Nations (UN) for the purpose of reviewing – and reforming – its budget and activities. The goal of the action plan is to challenge the existing paradigm and uproot the institutional bias and the cynical use of US funding that is prevalent today and will renders the United Nations UNaccountable.[1][2].
- The UNIFIL Project: In May 2017, the institute launched a campaign to highlight the threat posed to Israel by UNIFIL’s weakness and inability to stop Hezbollah from arming itself. Three months after the campaign launched the UN changed UNIFIL’s mandate[3].
- The UNESCO Project: This ongoing campaign seeks to rebut UNESCO’s decision that the State of Israel has no sovereignty over its capital, Jerusalem. Efforts to date have included extensive media activity, and decision-maker outreach[4]
- The UNRWA Project: The UNRWA initiative is the product of an international action-oriented research, that built the case and mapped the tools required in order to merge UNRWA, the agency created especially for Palestinian refugees, into UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
- Launch of The First Diplomatic Accelerator: The first diplomatic accelerator is designed to empower civil society initiatives in the field of diplomacy – from public diplomacy to internationalization of higher education through "tech-for-good" efforts – and allow them to create a real impact on Israel's foreign relations.
- Academic conferences: The recent conference- Golda Meir- Israel's First Lady of Diplomacy To mark 120 years to the birth of Israel's first female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, the institute hosted a conference that celebrated her life and work. The conference held several sessions that focused on Israel's relations with Africa, which Meir launched, The role of women in leadership positions, The Yom Kipur War and Amb. Prosor discussed with M.K Tzipi Livni the importance of the diplomatic work before, during and after a military campaign. Speakers in the conference included Ambassador of Cote d'Ivoire to Israel Jean-Baptiste Gomis, former Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, Former Head of Mossad Zvi Zamir, former Head of IDF Intelligence Shlomo Gazit, former Ambassadors Shlomo Hillel and Gabriela Shalev and others.
References[edit]
The website of the Abba Eban Institute
- ↑ Prosor, Ron. "How Congress Can Boost Haley at the U.N. - by Ron Prosor". Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- ↑ "In opinion: Guterres and Haley can't do it alone, democracies must end U.N. farce". Newsweek. 2017-03-22. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- ↑ Prosor, Ron. "There's Still Time to Avert War in Lebanon - by Ron Prosor". Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- ↑ "Israel must not let Arab states hijack UNESCO". Ynetnews. 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
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