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Incoming Delegates to Utah
APRIL 2008
MAY 2008
- Africa: May 10-14, 9 Delegates examining Religious Freedom and Interfaith Dialogue
- Russia: May 21-24, 6 Delegates examining Housing Development
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UCCD in Washington D.C.
The UCCD staff traveled to Washington D.C. in February to attend the National Council for International Visitor's (NCIV) National Meeting.
 The theme for this year's program was "Citizen Diplomacy - Democracy in Action."
Deputy Secretary of State, Alina Romanowski,
and UCCD Executive Director, Laura Dupuy
This annual event provides us the opportunity to deepen our knowledge of U.S. public diplomacy and develop understanding of current U.S. foreign policy and its impact on our community. The meeting is funded through NCIV's Cooperative Agreement with the Office of International Visitors, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. For forty years, UCCD has been a private sector partner with the Department of State and welcomed over 3,000 emerging leaders to Utah through this program. [Read More] |
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Should We Globalize Labor Too?
 Pritchett, a development economist and practiced iconoclast, has just left the World Bank to teach at Harvard and to help Google plan its philanthropic efforts on global poverty.
Gure Sarki, goat keeper, of Chaurmuni, Nepal.
In a recent trip through Chaurmuni, he praised the goats as community-driven development at its best: a fast, flexible way of delivering tangible aid to the poor. "But Nepal isn't going to goat its way out of poverty," he said. Nor does he think that as a small, landlocked country Nepal can soon prosper through trade. To those standard solutions, trade and aid, Pritchett would add a third: a big upset-the-applecart idea, equally offensive to the left and the right. He wants a giant guest-worker program that would put millions of the world's poorest people to work in its richest economies. [Read More] by Jason DeParle, New York Times Magazine (June 10, 2007) |
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Junior Journalist Zippy F. Interviews Delegates from Qatar, Algeria, and Yemen
Qatar, Algeria, and Yemen; these are the countries I had the pleasure of learning about as I interviewed school representatives from these countries. I learned some differences and similarities between our schools and theirs.
Zippy F. interviews Delegates from
Qatar, Algeria & Yemen
Another junior journalist and I asked the representatives a number of questions and learned the countries of Yemen and Qatar spoke the same language and had more things in common with each other than Algeria. They were all equally interesting. [Read More]
UCCD arranges visits between our International Delegates and area school children. UCCD provides the students with historical, geographical and cultural profiles of the visitors and their home country. With the teacher's guidance, the students develop interview questions while learning journalism skills. On the day of the program, the students interview the visitors and write an essay about them, including details about their country.
For more information and to schedule a class visit, please contact Jennifer Hefti at (801) 832-3272 or jhefti@utahdiplomacy.org.
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