Following the ongoing contacts between NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division and UC’s research centre Public Diplomacy and Political Communication Forum (directed by Professor Natalia Chaban), interdisciplinary team of students from COMS 420 Public Diplomacy represented the UC in a trans-national simulation Yonsei IP4 Hybrid Threat Simulation 2025 on October 11. The team led by Jacob Laudenslager (MIRAD) included Holly Blake (MA in Media and Comms), Fanchea Molony (MStratCom), and MIRAD’s Daisy Francis, Samantha Ferrier, and Craig Petersen. The simulation was facilitated by an academic team from South Korea involving student teams from Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia. Our UC team, representing a Soft Power Working Group in the simulation, shared the first place in terms of scores
Student Public Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific; Yonsei IP4 Hybrid Threat Simulation 2025
