The lesson on Cultural Diplomacy aims to provide study and analysis of a Novel form of interdisciplinary character. In the context of diplomacy and technical negotiations, we come across various practices, such as multilateral, economic, or environmental diplomacy. Although, in recent decades cultural diplomacy has been multilevel depending on the entities involved.
Culture, a complex term which crystallizes a timeless set of values, morals, customs, knowledge and experience subject to the historical, social and human geographical context in which they evolve and are inherited from generation to generation. It is a subject of protection within a human rights protection framework and promoting the protection of human rights. International organizations, on global and regional levels, and their bodies as well, contribute to the protection of human rights, particularly cultural human rights, through the adoption of international instruments, policy development and decision-making of their own bodies. Furthermore, international organizations such as UNESCO and the Council of Europe, leading to the institutionalization of respect for cultural diversity and multiculturalism and thus reproduced in multilateral international bodies of cultural diplomacy.
At a national level, cultural diplomacy is characterized by the rich cultural past of every state and is reduced to the mechanism of foreign policy to achieve its overall objectives. Through cultural diplomacy, the State aims to promote cultural values, achievements, their contribution to the international environment, strengthening of cultural ties as well as cooperation with other states. Bodies of cultural diplomacy at this level are usually the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Culture and Education, and their agencies, private legal entities operating either domestically or abroad and aim to apprise cultural identity.