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  • AboutThe City Diplomacy Lab at Columbia Global Centers | Paris is an unprecedented alliance between scholars and practitioners of cities’ international action.
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  • ResearchProviding much-needed theoretical framing, reliable data, and comparative analyses of the vast array of bilateral and multilateral city actions and campaigns.
  • TrainingCombining theory with empirical evidence, the Lab is a unique actor in training municipal, national, and international officers in matters of city diplomacy.
    • Capacity-building programs
    • City Diplomacy Students’ Podcast
  • EventsAdvancing the understanding and dissemination of city diplomacy as a tool for sustainable urban development through in-person, hybrid, and virtual initiatives.
  • TeamThe Team is based at Columbia Global Centers | Paris and formed by an international and experienced staff of city diplomacy researchers and professionals
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UNECE recognises the City Diplomacy Lab as a Centre of Excellence

19 Jan 202319 Jan 2023
19 January 2023 The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and Columbia Global Centers | Paris (CGC|Paris), one of the ten global centres of Columbia University in the City…
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Celebrating decentralized cooperation projects connecting Europe to the world

29 Dec 202229 Dec 2022
Everywhere in the world, city diplomacy owes its expansion primarily to the determination of a growing number of municipalities to emulate the impact of its most successful applications. This is…
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Shaping the future of Italian cities’ international action

24 Nov 202224 Nov 2022
Since its dawn following World War II, city diplomacy has featured Italian municipalities among its main drivers of expansion and innovation. Twinning agreements, the municipal peace movement, the partnership approach…
Events

Scaling up diasporas’ unique contribution to decentralized cooperation

14 Nov 202220 Nov 2022
Diasporas are increasingly proving their empowering role in decentralized cooperation, i.e., development partnerships implemented by cities and local governments. With their knowledge of their territory of origin and ability to…
Events

Matching proximity and diplomacy at the Smart City Expo World Congress

13 Nov 202213 Nov 2022
The City Diplomacy Lab joins forces with ETI Chair - IAE Paris Sorbonne Business School and C40 Cities to support the global spread of local, participatory solutions to urban societies' primary…
Hybrid Events

Bringing environmental city diplomacy to COP27

29 Oct 202213 Nov 2022
In consideration of their extensive efforts to deploy their unique tools to combat the causes and respond to the consequences of climate change, cities have emerged as indispensable actors in…
Interviews

City Diplomacy Talks | Dr. Claudia López, Mayor of Bogotá

26 Oct 202229 Oct 2022
What happens when a city government puts care at the center of its action? In this interview by Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi, Bogotá Mayor Claudia López explains how her city became a global model for equity and sustainable development.
Op-eds

The city without the country? City diplomacy as a platform for a new, cohesive municipalism

30 Sep 202230 Sep 2022
By Michele F. Fontefrancesco, PhD Is city diplomacy just about large cities? How can small municipalities have a voice? Exploring the case study of Italy, the article reads city diplomacy…
Tools

Exploring the best podcasts on urban affairs

19 Jul 202220 Jul 2022
A brief review of the best podcasts focusing on global urban affairs and city diplomacy. By Emanuele Sala "Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form." Director Jean-Luc Godard…
Hybrid Events

Urban metabolism and gender equity at WUF11

24 Jun 202229 Oct 2022
City Diplomacy Lab joins forces with UCLG and Cités Unies France to bring the global discussion on gender equity and city diplomacy to the 11th World Urban Forum. Through the…

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  • Matching proximity and diplomacy at the Smart City Expo World Congress

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