Hello all! I've been a social girl these days with quite a few get-togethers but the one I wish to share is a talk about Jane Knight who I will consider legendary for internationalization/IZN ka. This time it isn't about IZN but her insights on 'Knowledge Diplomacy/KD' that is discussed along with 'soft power/SP'.
Jane Knight has given this definition to KD ka: 'the process of building and strengthening relations between and among countries through international higher education, research, and innovation.'
She's offered the following as key messages:
1. International higher education in research and innovation (IHERI) plays a role in international relations using both collaborative and competitive approaches.
2. IHERI actors and activities can be the same for KD and SP but intentions, values, modes and outcomes differ.
3. There are similarities and differences between KD and science, cultural, education diplomacy
4. Knowledge security in IHERI cooperation requires more attention.
My thinking is as follows:
1. KD is clear for its level standing....being at the policy and international level while IZN is for the higher education institutions and sector to play both at the institutional and international level (not as expansive at the international)
2. Mentioning SP at the current self-defined usage in our country is hard to understand ka. Jane Knight made it clear along with Joseph Nye's definition that intentions and values to use SP are basically for the politics with dominance, control and more upper hand approaches.
3. KD through IHERI leans more toward a gentler relationship, I think, with a larger pool of stakeholders far beyond higher education and its regular stakeholders.
4. KD, for me, could be on the less positive side when thinking about technology advances and geopolitics ka. Those with more advances with ownership could possibly turn to become 'extreme' turning 'Knowledge Diplomacy' to ' Knowledge Dictatorship'......right away, it could become 'soft power' ka.
5. To spread actions on KD, it's challenging to move our university minds further away from IZN (and they'll resist thinking that it's something new again when they can't achieve IZN yet). It requires political will at the national level and some select universities to walk down this path....this means very senior national leaders must take it up with understanding of the big picture of own and international standings plus responsibility (including resources) to see it through for years.
Another very interesting issue to think, discuss, and try ka.
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