World Youth Peace Summit 2011 "USA"

An initiative of the
Institute for International Sport



On July 1, 1986 the Institute for International Sport opened in a one-room office on the URI campus. On July 1, 2011, the Institute will welcome more than 25,000 participants to the 2011 World Youth Peace Summit and World Scholar-Athlete Games.

http://www.youthpeacesummit.org/index.cfm

"This inspired idea will have a tremendous impact on world peace for generations to come." - Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel

Earthquake Volunteers 2011 "JAPAN"

If you like to help people you have come to the right place. Your local Red Cross unit could have just the opportunity – from training to be and ready to respond to disasters to supporting a blood drive from delivering messages to our US service personnel to connecting families displaced by disasters or conflict.


http://www.redcross.org/en/volunteer

EFIL Summit 2011 Volunteers (Portugal)

EFIL Volunteers Summer Summit 2011 (Portugal)

At the Volunteer Summer Summit 2011, volunteers from all over Europe and the rest of the world, will have the possibility to develop further European links on personal and organizational levels. It will bring together over 250 people of different cultural, generational, and social backgrounds. This diversity will be an incredible opportunity to see and meet the world and also to bring it back home in the knowledge, experience, new friends and memories acquired.

In the spirit of the European Year of Volunteering, EFIL has chosen the theme "Promoting Multiculturalism through Volunteer Work"for the Volunteer Summer Summit 2011. It gives the framework to promote multiculturalism and informal learning in the AFS/EFIL network, and participants achieve a feeling of belonging to an inclusive volunteer community. Objectives are also to provide training opportunities on both high and basic level, intercultural experiences, networking and sharing.

http://www.efilsummersummit.org/2011/

G8 Youth Summit 2011 "FRANCE"

G8 Youth The G8 Youth Summit is an international conference by youth delegates, which models the original annually held Group of Eight conferences. Participants in the G8 Youth Summit are required to discuss worldwide issues beforehand the original conferences and coming to a conclusion by summarizing the outcomes of the meeting; namely working on writing a Communique. By making the effort of achieving a consensus, the opinions of the participants could be presented as an alternative to the international world today -weaving ideas between the 'Idealistic' and the 'Reality' of the present situations of society.
Apply:
http://g8ysjapan.org/01g8ys_e.html

Wsis Forum 2011 "GENEVA"

ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP welcome all WSIS Stakeholders to the WSIS Forum 2011 website. WSIS Forum 2011 will be held from 16th to 20th May 2011 and will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and to participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its new format is the result of open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders.

WSIS Forum 2010 marked the way forward in creating a reflection of the “WSIS spirit” and the euphoria felt during the Geneva and Tunis Summits. WSIS stakeholders participated enthusiastically and eagerly in all the interactive sessions and debates, and the new forward-looking WSIS campaign “Turning Targets into Action” mirrors their ambition to achieve the WSIS targets by 2015.

http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2011/Home.aspx