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- 1What an Ancient Hawaiian Canoe Teaches About Diplomacy●What Can an Ancient Hawaiian Canoe Teach Us About Diplomacy?
A traditional Hawaiian canoe is being used as a lens to rethink modern diplomacy, drawing on Indigenous Polynesian seafaring traditions of navigation, cooperation and shared purpose across vast distances. The piece argues that lessons from how ancient voyagers built alliances and sustained communities can inform how nations approach dialogue and cooperation today, prompting reflection on non-Western models of statecraft.