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SUMMARY:Hosting Opportunity: Youth Ambassadors Brazil
DESCRIPTION:CCWA is seeking families in the Cleveland area to host one or two students from Sunday\, January 12- Wednesday\, January 22\, 2025. This is an exchange through the U.S. Department of State’s Youth Ambassadors Latin America program. This program is for high school age students from various regions in Brazil to travel to the U.S. for a leadership\, environmental\, and entrepreneurship focused learning program. Each weekday the students are engaged in workshops\, site visits\, and community activities with CCWA. Students speak English. \nIf you are interested in hosting\, please contact Director of Exchanges Andrew Kovach at akovach@ccwa.org. \nFor interested hosts: Each student must have their own bed\, though they may share a room with a student of the same gender. (Air mattresses are not permitted.) We ask that students be provided breakfast and that they be included in family meals in the evening. During weekdays\, students will be engaged in educational programming\, and transportation and lunches will be provided by CCWA. Students have weekends and most evenings free to spend time with their host families. A home visit and background check must be completed prior to hosting. 
URL:https://www.ccwa.org/events/hosting-opportunity-youth-ambassadors-brazil/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:International Visitors
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SUMMARY:A New Direction or More of the Same? The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this event has closed. Contact Jacob Connell at jconnell@ccwa.org with questions. \nThe Cleveland Council on World Affairs is honored to host Richard Fontaine for the John A. Hellman Foreign Policy Forum. \nWith strategic competition with China\, ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East\, ever-growing climate crises\, and a plethora of other pressing global issues\, the United States faces a new era of geopolitical challenges that the incoming administration in January 2025 will need to carefully navigate. Specifically with respect to China\, the last 13 years of American foreign policy have been largely defined by a strategic reorientation to view Asia as America’s priority region – strategically and economically. This was President Obama’s “Pivot to Asia”. Today\, the global landscape is being shaped by power competition involving China\, Russia\, Iran\, and North Korea that are challenging the U.S.-led world order in various ways\, forcing the U.S. to refresh its traditional focus on European allies and democracies\, among others. As a new administration takes office\, it is imperative to reflect on past foreign policy successes and failures and assess the areas in which U.S. foreign policy should remain consistent and where it needs to evolve. \nCCWA is honored to host Richard Fontaine\, Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security\, and co-author of “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power\,” to discuss the impact of the United States’ “Pivot to Asia” and the future direction of U.S. foreign policy. Should the U.S. continue to prioritize Asia before Europe? How would the U.S. do this while still upholding the commitments to allies in other regions? Drawing upon his experience working in the State Department\, National Security Council\, and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\, Mr. Fontaine will share his perspective on how the next administration could best reassure the world that the United States has good intentions\, competence\, leadership\, and staying power. \nMr. Fontaine’s book will be available for purchase before and after the program.
URL:https://www.ccwa.org/events/a-new-direction-or-more-of-the-same-the-future-of-u-s-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:The Union Club\, 1211 Euclid Ave.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44115\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCWA Event,Foreign Policy Forum,Public Forum
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SUMMARY:Young Professionals Immersive Workshop: How to Build a Refugee Camp
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this event has closed. Please contact Jacob Connell at jconnell@ccwa.org or (216) 255-9009 with questions. \nHosted by the Carter E. Strang Young Professionals Advisory Committee (YPAC)\, CCWA’s popular How to Build a Refugee Camp workshop is back! This is a fantastic opportunity for young professionals to gain a better sense of the challenges refugees face\, and how the international community can help. Elizabeth Colvin\, CCWA’s Director of Global Education\, will lead a hands-on workshop analyzing the policies that protect refugees and internally displaced persons\, as well as demonstrating how to ethically build the camps that house them. \nWe are delighted to be joined by Patrick Kearns\, Executive Director at Re:Source Cleveland\, who will share his personal experiences living and working in the Umphium Mai refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border. Before his time at Re:Source Cleveland (formerly The Refugee Response)\, Mr. Kearns spent 14 years working in Southeast Asia supporting education for refugees and stateless youth in various capacities. As a primer for the workshop\, Mr. Kearns will touch on the realities of the refugee experience and how young professionals in Cleveland can best support refugees\, both in their communities and abroad. \nSpace is limited\, so sign up now! \nThis workshop will be held in the Learning Commons on the second floor of the Cleveland Public Library – Louis Stokes Wing (525 Superior Ave\, Cleveland\, OH 44114). Light refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://www.ccwa.org/events/young-professionals-immersive-workshop-how-to-build-a-refugee-camp/
LOCATION:Cleveland Public Library – Louis Stokes Wing\, 525 Superior Avenue\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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