Peer-to-Peer Diplomacy

Peer-to-Peer Diplomacy, also abbreviated P2P, describes the recent notion that civilians, by virtue of the internet and more specifically social media, are producers as well as consumers of government information, with the potential to bypass official Government bodies if necessary. Public Diplomacy nowadays is therefore about more than just governments employing ‘soft and smart’ power, but increasingly also about dealing and collaborating with a public that can produce and distribute information themselves.