GUERRILLA

DIPLOMACY
 “PD ON STEROIDS”
BRUCE GREGORY
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

It starts with recognizing the

need to build a
better diplomat
 DARYL COPELAND

They are resilient, determined self-starters who integrate into and support
civil society while leaving a light representational footprint.
They are inclined toward abstract thinking, innovation and analytical
cognition.
They are naturally curious, with a highly developed sense of personal and
situational awareness.
They are adept with new media, connected intimately to their environment
and expert at cross-cultural communications.
 DARYL COPELAND

They are proactive intelligence generators who place a premium on acquiring

granular, local knowledge through the development and maintenance of networks of
contacts.
In seeking and considering diverse viewpoints, often from under-represented,
marginalized or excluded groups, guerrilla diplomats will routinely test the received
wisdom, and will never fail to make the distinction between intelligence (what is
actually happening), and policy (what their employers would like to see or make
happen).
 DARYL COPELAND

• The guerrilla diplomat will need the sensibility and street smarts of a world
traveler, the knowledge of a new age polymath, and the enterprising spirit of an
entrepreneur
SÉRGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO

Brazilian United Nations diplomat

Considered a likely candidate

for UN Secretary-General.

Killed in Canal Hotel bombing

 DARYL COPELAND

• Over time, guerrilla diplomacy can be used to address the sentiments and symptoms
• public health
• alternative energy, genomics
• weapons of mass destruction

• Guerrilla diplomats could begin to treat, through concrete action, the resentment,
humiliation, anger and alienation that give rise, among other things, to religious
extremism and political violence, to jihad and suicide bombings.
 DARYL COPELAND

“Guerrilla diplomacy begins with the conviction that only

by applying relentless creativity, extraordinary
imagination and rigorous intellect might it be possible to
solve problems and to build, in concert with others,
something better”
PILGRIMAGE
DIPLOMACY
“DARGAH DIPLOMACY”
PILGRIMAGE DIPLOMACY

• refers to the officials or politicians traveling to a non-friend or enemy

country under the pretext of pilgrimage or holy shrine but with the aim of
political discussion or political visit.

• EX. “ Iranian officials travel to Mecca and to an Iraqi holy shrine in the 1970s and 1980s”