{"id":7224,"date":"2021-07-25T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2022-02-06T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T16:02:28","slug":"bcis-historical-narratives-in-diplomacy-being-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/bcis-historical-narratives-in-diplomacy-being-there\/","title":{"rendered":"BCIS\u2019 \u201cHistorical Narratives in Diplomacy- Being There\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BCIS\u2019 \u2018Historical Narratives in Diplomacy- Being There,\u2019 entitled&nbsp;\u201cOn Diplomatic Postings, We Sometimes Bump into Crises that Didn&#8217;t Exist Before,\u201d&nbsp;narrated by Ambassador Dr John Gooneratne,&nbsp;was held online on&nbsp;Saturday, July 17, 2021 from 12.00 noon to 1.30 p.m. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistorical Narratives in Diplomacy- Being There,\u201d provides a platform for sharing experience of eminent experts with emerging generations of professionals in the field of International Relations. This is an informal space for acquiring first hand anecdotes and tactical insights from experts in their historical\/professional settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brief documentary that captured a glimpse of the International Relations and Governance related contexts that our guest speaker Ambassador Dr John Gooneratne has served in during his span of career in his missions abroad and in influential positions in Sri Lanka was screened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Dr John Gooneratne,&nbsp;an Alumnus of University of Peradeniya, American University of Washington DC and the University of Colombo,&nbsp;joined the Foreign Service in 1961. He served in Washington, Myanmar (Burma), Cairo, New York and was appointed Ambassador to Iraq during the period 1989 \u2013 1992. This was when the&nbsp;first Gulf War&nbsp;began on August 28, 1990 with Iraq\u2019s invasion of Kuwait. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Webinar was attended by around 198 vibrant participants including some members from the diplomatic community, present and former foreign service officials, parliamentarians, academics, other&nbsp;professionals,&nbsp;some members of the BCIS\u2019&nbsp;Council of Management and BCIS\u2019 Academic Board,&nbsp;and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Minna Thaheer, Director\/BCIS, chaired the event and presented a BCIS memento to Ambassador Gooneratne. The event was hosted by the Bandaranaike Research Hub (BRH), a &nbsp;specialized unit&nbsp;of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) &#8211; the archival repository of documents events\/processes on foreign policy initiatives by the late Prime Minister Mr S.W.R.D Bandaranaike and the late Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1.png 624w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2.png 624w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-4-1024x615.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-4-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-4-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-4-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-4-500x300.png 500w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-4.png 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"925\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-5.png 925w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-5-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-5-768x446.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCIS\u2019 \u2018Historical Narratives in Diplomacy- Being There,\u2019 entitled&nbsp;\u201cOn Diplomatic Postings, We Sometimes Bump into Crises that Didn&#8217;t Exist Before,\u201d&nbsp;narrated by Ambassador Dr John Gooneratne,&nbsp;was held online on&nbsp;Saturday, July 17, 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7614,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcis.edu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}