United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) in the month of September is holding the 2nd edition of its Fellowship Programme for emerging leaders from the US, Europe and the Arab World.
The UNAOC Fellowship Program has been developed in partnership with the British Council, the League of Arab States, ISESCO, the Institute for International Education, and the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilization and aims at enhancing the mutual knowledge and understanding between peoples and societies from Muslim-majority countries in the Arab World, Europe and North America.
The fellowship gives the fellows from the Arab World an opportunity to travel throughout three countries in Europe and three states in the US, and emerging leaders from the US and Europe will get to travel to three countries throughout the Arab world.
This year, twelve fellows (men and women) aged between 26 to 38 years from Syria, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Kuwait and Lebanon will attend the program to be held in New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Paris, Brussels and London for a period of two weeks. The fellows during this period will get an opportunity to attend some meetings and meet in the host country with decision makers, media leaders, local communities, grassroots, religious groups for in depth discussions. The program will run from September 10 to 26 2011.
The other side of program i.e. the North Africa/Middle East will be held in Morocco, Egypt and Qatar for a period of two weeks as well, offering young leaders some meetings and visits in the host country with decision makers, media leaders, local communities, grassroots, and religious groups for in depth discussions. The program will run from September 24 October to 5 November 2011 and will feature 12 fellows (men and women) from 26 to 38 years old from: Germany, France, U.K., Turkey, Denmark, Greece, Spain and several parts of the USA (Illinois, California, New York and D.C.)
The recent uprising movements and events of the Arab Spring have resulted in the emergence of a new generation of young leaders, who have a desire to exchange their views with the rest of the world which has necessitated the need to develop exchange programs among emerging leaders from different parts of the world.
