WDA WORLD DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY
The World Diplomatic Academy is an international non-
governmental Swiss Organization which aims to promote and support all
initiatives, actions and policies contributing to mutual understanding,
exchange and cooperation while in the aftermath of the pandemic,
peacekeeping and conflict prevention and resolution require resolutely
more coherent and sustainable approaches.
The severity of the Covid-19 crisis and its global impact require
those responsible for the world we are entering to be able to respond
effectively and appropriately to the renewed challenges that range from
peace and security to climate change, global trade and sustainable
development.
For this purpose, the World Diplomatic Academy benefits from
the 35-year experience and the permanent and active support of the
Crans Montana Forum, the IUHEI Crans Montana Institute and the
Cercle des Ambassadeurs in Paris.
WDA WORLD DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY
Having as its primary objective the establishment and
maintenance of sustainable peace and harmony between Nations, the
Academy undertakes to modernize and improve interstate dialogue by
carrying out a profound refresh or even a real reset of the current
methods of a diplomacy which must find the paths of efficiency and
success.
Three main axes for this:
o THE PROMOTION OF “HUMANE VALUES” in the dialogue between
leaders: systematic mutual respect, recourse to informal diplomacy,
private meetings free from any binding agenda and / or agenda,
friendly framework favoring the availability of minds, communication
free and sincere, absolute respect for the confidentiality of
exchanges
o PROMOTING AN OPERATIONAL REALISM
The diplomat is not an activist and does not represent an NGO. The
core of his mission is to defend the political and economic interests
that he represents and consequently display a systematic respect for
the specificity of "the other", excluding from his action any
dogmatism and any proselytism of values which, in fact, belong only
to the sphere of each one
o EMPOWERMENT OF DIPLOMATS
This is how diplomats acquire the authority and the means to
implement realistic and structuring policies that have a real impact
on the definition and exercise of global governance.
THE
WORLD
DIPLOMATIC
ACADEMY
THUS
OFFERS
INTERNATIONAL LEADERS A TRUE SPACE OF DIALOGUE FOR PEACE,
SECURITY, STABILITY AND SHARED PROSPERITY. ITS APPROACH IS
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY BUT DIRECT ACTION IS ITS PRIORITY.
The Academy aims also to address the role of day-to-day
international diplomacy’s actors, primarily ambassadors and high-ranking
diplomats. It will orient its activities along a number of lines of thought
arising from the current world situation and the pandemic.
The WDA World Diplomatic Academy is partnering with
Governments, Ministries, Public Organisations, International
Organisations and Private groups to implement various activities of
common interest.
Get more contacting the Academy : info@WDAcademy.ch
WDA WORLD DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY
MAIN DIRECTIONS
According to a contribution by
H.E. Mr. Youssef Amrani
Advisor to the Royal Cabinet
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the Republic of South Africa
1. Doubt now exists about the capacity and integrity of international
Organizations when addressing the influence games of the various great
powers.
2. The Public Health crisis has revealed the serious institutional failings that
affect multilateral governance, its bureaucratic redundancies and
operational failures.
3. Multilateralism has to be revisited, in particular with regard to the
necessary strengthening of its operating and decision-making
mechanisms.
4. Diplomatic action must imperatively take place within the framework of
a multilateralism of complementarity based on a common base of values,
visions and strategies.
5. Imposing the will of the strongest on the weakest is no longer
appropriate. Time has come to imagine the consensuses of a global
coherence in which each party will play a useful and respected role.
Unilateralism has no place in a world that is now known to be primarily a
world of inter-vulnerability.
6. The current challenge of repatriations, vaccinations contracts, the
management of public opinion, the revival of economies means that
diplomacy would lose all relevance if it was still based on an anachronistic
interpersonal game and continued to be exercised in the softness of
comfortable lounges.
7. Today's diplomats must get out of their embassies, visiting ministries but
also the headquarters of major multinationals, laboratories and think-
tanks without forgetting that an ambassador must be permanently active
on the stage of television as in universities.
8. The diplomat must gain expertise and responsiveness to evolve in an
environment that must no longer remain unknown to him. Social
networks and new communication technologies must be familiar to him.
Indeed the gradual dematerialization and digitization of diplomatic action
are, in the long run, unavoidable.
9. The Ambassador must broaden the spectrum of his interlocutors and
engage in the most direct manner the scientific community,
multinationals, civil society and NGOs who are now essential and
determining players in international relation
« Bien sûr on peut (toujours) regretter la douceur des lampes à huile,
les splendeurs de la marine à voile (et) le charme du temps des équipages... »
Général Charles de Gaulle, 1960
info@WDAcademy.ch
COMITE D’HONNEUR
WDA WORLD DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY
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Ambassadeur Jean-Paul Carteron
Fondateur et Président de la WDA World Diplomatic Academy
Les titres mentionnés sont ceux du moment de la nomination au Comité d’Honneur
SAR le Prince Jean
Prince de Nassau
Prince de Luxembourg
Co-Président du Comité d’Honneur
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Monsieur Borut Pahor
Président de la République de Slovénie
Président de l’Union Européenne (2021)
Co-Président du Comité d’Honneur
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Monsieur Abdullah Abdullah
Ministre des Affaires étrangères
de l’Afghanistan (2001-2005)
Chef du Gouvernement d'union nationale
(2014-2019)
Président du Haut conseil
pour la réconciliation nationale (2019- )
Monsieur Alpha Barry
Ministre des affaires Etrangères
du Burkina Faso (2016-2021)
Madame Irina Bokova
Directrice Générale de l’UNESCO
(2009-2017)
Monsieur Herman de Croo
Ministre d’Etat, Royaume de Belgique
Président honoraire
de la Chambre des Représentants
Monsieur Macky Sall
Président de la République du Sénégal
(2012-2024)
Président de l’Union Africaine (2022-2023)
Monsieur Hage Geingob +
Président de la République
de Namibie (2015 -2023)
Madame Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Présidente de la République de Maurice
(2015-2018)
Monsieur Federico Mayor +
Directeur Général de l’UNESCO (1987-1999)
Président du Forum de l'Alliance
entre les Civilisations des Nations Unies
Monsieur Tawfik Mouline
Directeur Général
Institut Royal
des Etudes Stratégiques du Maroc
Monsieur Olusegun Obasanjo
Président
de la République Fédérale du Nigéria
(1976-1979) & (1999-2007)
Monsieur Sylvestre Radegonde
Ministre des Affaires Etrangères
et du Tourisme (2020- ) des Seychelles
Monsieur Petar Stoyanov
Président de la Bulgarie
(1997-2002)
Monsieur Taavi Roivas
Premier Ministre de l’Estonie
(2014-2016)
Monsieur Boris Tadic
President of the Republic of Serbia
(2004-2012)
President of the Democratic Party
Monsieur Filip Vujanovic
Premier Ministre (1998-2002)
Président du Monténégro
(2002-2018)
Monsieur Thomas Boni Yayi
Président de la République du Bénin
(2006-2016)
Président de l’Union Africaine
(2012-2013)