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Please contact:

Marjorie L. Crowell
Assistant Provost for International Affairs
223 East Franklin, CB# 5145
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5145
919-962-4504

margie_crowell@unc.edu

Bogdan Leja
International Liaison Officer
223 East Franklin, CB#5145
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5145
919-962-0299
leja@email.unc.edu

 

INTERNATIONAL PROTOCOL:

The Assistant Provost for International Affairs ensures that each international visit is conducted with the appropriate etiquette and diplomacy so that our guests feel welcomed by our University. With assistance from the International Liaison Officer, the Associate Provost coordinates visits of high-level international delegations, including heads of state, government and senior academic officials and faculty. When such contacts lead to negotiating formal linkage agreements with foreign universities and institutions, including networks of universities, the office supports UNC faculty and administration in drafting and finalizing such agreements.

protocol, comes from the Greek meaning "the first glue." Protocol can be seen as the glue which holds official life together and makes it work.(1) Protocol and etiquette, especially when dealing with international visitors, provide ground rules and a framework that all the participants understand. It takes only some very simple steps to ensure that you "do the right thing" when it comes to hosting international visitors.

protocol, a term referring to rules governing diplomatic conduct or to a variety of written instruments. Examples of the latter are authenticated minutes of international conferences; preliminary agreements, or statements of principle, which eventuate in a formal treaty; and agreements that do not require ratification. Sometimes the term protocol is applied to an agreement that in all essentials of form or content is similar to a treaty; an example of this was the Geneva Protocol approved by the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924, which branded aggressive war an international crime. It provided that no signatory would engage in war with other signatories who observed their international obligations. Diplomatic protocol is the code of international courtesy governing the conduct of those in the diplomatic service or otherwise engaged in international relations.

1. Protocol, the Complete Handbook of Diplomatic Official and Social Usage, Mary Jane McCaffree and Pauline Innis, Prenitce-Hall, New York, 1977.

See J. T. Shotwell, Plans and Protocols to End War (1925); J. R. Wood, Diplomatic Ceremonial and Protocol (1970); J. E. Lott, Practical Protocol: A Guide to International Courtesies (1973); P. Kattenburg, Diplomatic Practices (1980); M. McCaffree and P. Innes, Protocol (rev. ed. 1985).