Diplomacy Lab

Diplomacy Lab is a partnership between the U.S. Department of State and Northeastern University. Fiona Creed, PhD is the Northeastern University point of contact for the State Department. Students participating in the Diplomacy Lab explore real-world challenges identified by the U.S. Department of State, work under faculty members’ guidance, and engage with the Embassy or Bureau foreign service officers. This initiative allows students to contribute directly to the U.S. foreign policy making process.

Global Consensus Toolkit

The Global Consensus Toolkit is a visual analytics platform developed to provide small and developing United Nations (UN) member states with information to make data-based decisions in negotiations and voting at the UN General Assembly.  

Recognizing that most small and developing states do not have larger members’ analytical resources and workforces, this public-access portal seeks to remedy that disadvantage. Although it was designed initially with diplomats as the end-users in mind, the Toolkit is relevant to many UN stakeholders. These include governments and their agencies, researchers, think tanks, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups, and policy decision-makers.

The Toolkit is the product of a seven-month, experiential, interdisciplinary Diplomacy Lab project created by students in Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies for the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Organizational Affairs, with data sourced from the United Nations Digital Library. To date, the Toolkit has benefitted from the contributions of 90 students from the Northeastern graduate programs in Global Studies & International Relations and the undergraduate and graduate programs in Analytics.

We encourage CSSH faculty to stay tuned for more information on how to participate.