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Youth Policy: Grant Guidelines
The Youth Initiative requests proposals for up to $10,000 in funding to develop and curate thematic pages on a new global youth portal and community YouthPolicy.org. The site aims to consolidate knowledge and information on youth policies across the international sector, ranging from analysis and formulation to implementation and evaluation. Potential themes for website pages [...]
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The Generation 9/11 video project
Though the attacks of September 11 were most keenly felt in the U.S., their impact resounded worldwide. For many who came of age around 2001, the events of that day shaped their worldview, sometimes in surprising ways. Ten years later, we asked young adults from across the globe how their perspective on international and cross-cultural [...]
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“Poetry for Peace” contest
Coinciding with the International Day of Peace, the United Nations Department of Public Information, in collaboration with the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, is launching on 15 September 2011 a month-long “Poetry for Peace” youth contest to reinforce the message of a peaceful world. The [...]
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UNAOC-BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group are launching the BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation in support of the Alliance of Civilizations, under the auspices of the United Nations (UNAOC-BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation). Through this first global call for proposals, the UNAOC and the BMW Group will select [...]
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Join A 9/11 Walk
Join A 9/11 Walk, Huffington Post By Troy Jackson As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, many of us are wondering how best to honor the many victims of that tragedy and its aftermath. I found my own answer when a friend asked me to join him and a few others on a walk with [...]
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The North American Interfaith Youth Network of Religions for Peace: call for applications
The North American Interfaith Youth Network – Religions for Peace has opened the nomination process for individuals interested in representing the North American Region at the Global Youth Network of which two will be selected as representatives from North America (one from the US and one from Canada). The Religions for Peace Global Youth Network, [...]
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McGill-CREOR Graduate Student’s Conference: “Religion in Political Context: Rethinking and Reevaluating Political Structures in the 21st Century” (Canada, October 2011)
The Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR) of McGill has opened the call for papers of the 2011 Graduate Student’s Conference: “Religion in Political Context. Rethinking and Reevaluating Political Structures in ther 21st Century”. The Conference will take place in Quebec, Canada, on October 21-22, 2011. Deadline to submitt proposals is September 9, 2011. You have to submit [...]
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High Level Meeting on Youth at the United Nations General Assembly
On July 25 and 26, over 500 youth representatives from all over the world came to the General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the occasion of the High Level Meeting for the International Year of Youth on Dialogue and Mutual Understanding. The meeting, which included 2 panel discussions, several plenaries [...]
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Second edition of the UNAOC Summer School
For a week at the end of the summer 2011, over 85 youth aged between 18 to 35 years old and from close to 45 countries came together in Lisbon for the second edition of the UNAOC Summer School. The Summer School is based on the conviction that youth are the driving force for change. [...]
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United Nations Programme on Youth holding e-consultation on youth employment