The Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) is a diverse community of almost 300 creative professionals. This blog gives insights into the broad activities and the visions and perspectives of the GDL-members on current and future challenges. From technology and gender-based violence to the cities of the future and security: The topics they are concerned with are as diverse as the members.
The posts are edited by Mareike Enghusen and the blog is coordinated by Julia Jaroschewski.
Mareike Enghusen is a Middle East journalist who covers politics and business, as well as social and religious conflicts mainly in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. Her work has been published in German and international outlets such as Brandeins, Capital, Die Zeit, Die Welt, Haaretz and Egypt Independent.
Mareike attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg and took part in the six-month Trialogue of Cultures Fellowship of the Herbert Quandt Foundation in Israel and the Palestinian territories. As a fellow of the International Journalists’ Middle East Programme, she reported from Cairo in 2017. In 2018, she received a grant from the European Journalism Center to pursue extensive research in Jordan and Lebanon.
Mareike holds an MA in Middle East & Islamic Studies from the American University of Paris and an M.Litt. with distinction in Iranian Studies from the University of St Andrews, UK.
Julia Jaroschewski is a reporter and founder of Buzzing Cities Lab, a think tank focusing on digital technology and security in informal settlements such as the Favelas in Rio. She works for Die WELT, Spiegel Online, fluter and WIRED, covering mainly foreign politics, organised crime, the war on drugs and security policy. She studied in Portugal, has an MA in political sciences from Berlin and has worked for the UN in New York and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Mozambique.
Julia has attended the Axel Springer Akademie and Columbia School of Journalism. As a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Besser-Stiftung she reported from Brazil and South Africa, and from Mozambique as a scholar working for Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung. In 2016 she was part of the international journalism programme for South America, working for the Brazilian newspaper O Globo. She has also spent three months in India as a Media Ambassador for the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
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Read more about her engagement and how cities can function as future labs for innovative forms of diplomacy. More about her ideas on Women in Crime can be found here. Or read her article on community-led crisis response or on Guinea Bissau.
