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A new diplomatics will uncover new global knowledge about the strategies developed by people in various cultures and time periods which furthered peace-brokering, enhanced knowledge exchange (rather than just trade) and encouraged productive symbiosis. Philologists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, economists and in particular experts in the history of diplomacy, and in knowledge fields such as law, science, art, religion, literature and music need to join hands to create a repository of successful practices of diplomacy and human interaction from world history that can transform the inefficient treaties-and-law-based models that reign our current world. \n\nConsider East Asia’s Sinitic world: for more than two millennia Korea, Vietnam and Japan participated in a system of tribute missions to each others’ courts, while also paying obeisance to the Chinese emperor. These in-person visits, involving hundreds of participants, provided ample opportunity for paying respect and building trust, with the envoys respectfully delivering state letters on highly scripted ritual occasions. But most of the lengthy missions were spent exchanging cutting-edge knowledge across a broad variety of scientific fields, meeting “foreign” people along the road, sharing meals and banquets — and writing poetry for each other. \n\nThe envoys couldn’t communicate in a shared spoken language but conversed in “brush talk”, writing back and forth in East Asia’s lingua franca of classical Chinese. Consider one of the ten of thousands of poems composed on these occasions, this one from a “good-will” mission in 1719 that Chosŏn Korea sent to Japan to celebrate the accession of a new shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune. A Korean embassy member had written a poem on a beautiful fan as a gift for their Japanese host, a local official hosting the banquet. The host, Wada Masatane, graciously replied:\n\n豈惟詩句秀\t\tHow amazing, your lines of poetry!\n\n運筆墨痕明\t\tSo brilliant your calligraphy, as you wield your brush. \n\n賴對雞林客\t\tSitting across our guests from [Korea],\n\n初聞大雅聲\t\twe first hear the sounds of their “Great Odes”.\n\nThis is not a work of literary genius, but it is a brilliant deployment of diplomatic intelligence for the benefit of peaceful relations. You generously praise the other for something they care about — here it is good Chinese-style poetry and calligraphy. You paint a scene of togetherness: sitting together at a banquet, sharing a meal and drinks. You show respect and understanding of their history and culture, evoking an age-old name of their country. You evoke a shared past, thereby projecting a shared future: the “Great Odes” are a section of the Chinese *Classic of Poetry* (ca. 600 BCE), which here project shared values of Confucian statecraft and civilisation. The overall effect is to cast Japan and Korea as being in happy regional symbiosis under Chinese (Zhou) leadership. \n\nThis is diplomatic intelligence in action, just as we need it today: creating visions of a shared future in the midst of challenging realities. The nomination document for a corpus of texts and paintings from the missions between Japan and Korea between the 17<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries explicitly argues that this form of diplomatic interaction, cemented by trust-building through shared meals, time, knowledge, painting and poetry, secured an unusually long peace between Japan and Korea during this period. \n\nEven if simplistic causal relations are hard to draw, these are the kinds of strategies we need to unearth from our records of human experience in deep time and space. The [MIT Global Humanities Initiative](https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/) is now prototyping a new diplomatics with strategic partners such as GESDA through the [Comparative Diplomacies for Global Governance](https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/ongoing-work/alternative-diplomacies-for-human-thriving-what-to-learn-from-the-worlds-diplomatic-cultures/) project. This project seeks to revitalise diplomacy by integrating historical insights with innovative practices, creating a more adaptive and inclusive approach to global governance. We aim to diversify diplomatic practices for the 21st century, shaping actionable frameworks for policy-makers to promote sustainable strategies that address the challenges of global interdependence, rampant protectionisms and transactional relations. \n\nBy engaging academic, political and diplomatic stakeholders we aim to bridge gaps between established political frameworks and emerging global needs. 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GESDA is committed to protecting the privacy of its stakeholders, communities, and other contacts.\n\n## Scope\n\nThis privacy policy applies to all personal data processed by full-time and part-time employees, volunteers when acting on behalf of GESDA, contractors and partners doing business on behalf of GESDA, as well as all legal entities, all operating locations in all countries, and all business processes conducted by GESDA.\n\n## Information Collected\n\n#### What information do we collect?\n\nGESDA collects the following personal data in line with the use purposes explained in a subsequent section:\n\n  * Your name and contact details\n  * Online profile data/usage\n  * Contact information\n  * Social media profile information\n  * Education and professional information\n  * Registration and participation in GESDA events and activities - Information about service usage\n  * Cookies\n  * Authentication data\n  * Location information\n  * Author and peer review information\n  * Other information you upload or provide to us\n\n#### How do we use your information?\n\nGESDA uses (and, where specified, shares) your personal information for the following purposes:\n\n  * To provide support or other services. 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We may also use this information to confirm compliance with licensing and other terms of use and may share it with your company/institution.\n  * To assist in your participation in GESDA activities. GESDA will communicate with you, if you are participating in certain GESDA activities such as the GESDA Summit, authoring or reviewing a GESDA article, or GESDA humanitarian activities. GESDA may send you information such as update messages related to those activities (such as but not limited to the event's content, and event logistics)\n  * To update you on relevant GESDA events and opportunities. GESDA may communicate with you regarding relevant GESDA events and opportunities.\n  * To protect GESDA content and services. We may use your information to prevent potentially illegal activities and to enforce our terms and conditions.\n  * To get feedback or input from you. 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If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 16, please contact us.\n\n#### How will you know if the Privacy Policy is changed?\n\nGESDA may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes you will be notified by means of a notice on our website prior on the date the change becomes effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.\n\n## Technical And Regulatory Information\n\n#### Logging practices\n\nGESDA automatically records the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of visitors. The IP address is a unique number assigned to every computer on the internet. Generally, an IP address changes each time you connect to the internet (it is a \"dynamic\" address). Note, however, that if you have a broadband connection, depending on your individual circumstance, the IP address that we collect may contain information that could be deemed identifiable. This is because, with some broadband connections, your IP address doesn't change (it is \"static\") and could be associated with your personal computer.\n\nAs well as recording the IP addresses of users, GESDA may also keep track of sites that users visited immediately prior to visiting GESDA's website and the search terms they used to find it. We keep track of the pages visited on GESDA's website, the amount of time spent on those pages and the types of searches done on them. Your searches remain confidential and anonymous. GESDA uses this information only for statistical purposes to find out which pages users find most useful and to improve the website.\nGESDA also captures and stores information that you transmit. 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