Association for the Development of Friendship and Understanding

Some Mission and Vision:


Some mission: ADFU/Cercle Diplomatique provides a platform for senior and junior foreign diplomats and dignitaries of international organizations to get exposure to an array of developments taking place in The Netherlands compared with worldwide developments, enhancing their understanding, and thus their effectiveness. The program serves as a kaleidoscope for gaining insights, and to get in touch more intimately with the Dutch national and the EU international environment.


Some vision: Forming blocks between world powers as a way of organizing international affairs is too rigid to meet the increasing complexity of the world. In order to cope with the continuous shifting of interests we suggest that a checkered pattern of temporary alliances and cooperation modes are better suited to serve as platforms for mediation between states and international organizations, subject to internationally accepted norms and values.


Conferences, Seminars, Field trips, Network events, Certificate ceremonies

Our Nature...

ADFU is a civil society NGO; an international network-centric organization, a-political and non-religious in character; stimulating learning and doing as the core of any creative human activity, and guided by the notions of 'Friendship and Understanding'.

ADFU/Cercle Diplomatique subscribes to...


The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
The UNESCO Declaration of Principles of Tolerance

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Our Belief...

ADFU beliefs that civil society organizations play an increasingly important role in every sector of daily life, and are becoming indispensable for governmental as well as entrepreneurial organizations in pursuing their strategic objectives


  • Contact: P.O. Box 13054
  • NL-2501 EB The Hague
  • cell Phone + 31 612 533 791