The Humpty Dumpty Institute Bulletin |
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Seventeen University Students from around the World Complete the Humpty Dumpty Institute’s UN Boot Camp |
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July 8, 2015 - For Immediate Release |
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The Humpty Dumpty Institute’s annual United Nations Boot Camp took place this year from June 7 - June 13, 2015 and was a huge success. Seventeen participants from seven countries (Australia, China, Ethiopia, Liberia, Sudan, Turkey and the United States) representing fourteen universities took part in HDI’s signature higher education program. HDI’s United Nations Boot Camp helps create the next generation of global leaders by connecting students with the United Nations and by building bridges between the international body and universities around the world. The UN Boot Camp provides a comprehensive range of activities, resources and opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in global affairs. It is a week-long immersion study program that gives advanced undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to explore, examine and experience the inner workings of world’s premier global governance body — the United Nations — as well as other international NGO’s and organizations. By the end of the Boot Camp students gained first-hand knowledge of how multilateral diplomacy is crafted and implemented, not from their textbooks, but by the practitioners themselves, senior UN officials, Ambassadors, members of the UN Diplomatic Corps, UN agency and NGO staff, American legislators and diplomats, policymakers and other leading experts in world affairs. Key topics covered include peace and security, refugees and migration, food security, counter terrorism, gender equality, international public health, wildlife conservation, peacebuilding and peacekeeping, the role of intelligence in international diplomacy, inclusion of civil society, human rights, governance, and legislative involvement in foreign policy. A significant amount of time was also devoted to internships and career development. Participants are able to ask speakers how they arrived at their given career path and begin to explore how they can find their own. |
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The Boot Camp begins in New York City and finishes the week in Washington, D.C., making the Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) the only organization in the country that structures its program in this capacity. Participants heard from over 25 different experts from the United Nations, the State Department, think tanks and other international organizations. |
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Participants related how the experience at the Boot Camp changed their outlook on the United Nations and made them reflect on their future career choices. Boot Camp participant Stephanie Eyre, studying international public health at Tulane University, stated that "the program turned out to be everything I was hoping it would be and so much more! I learned so much about the United Nations in addition to learning about myself and the type of career I believe I will thrive best in." Zoe Stathis, an International Relations student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, said that the Boot Camp "was honestly the best week of my life. The knowledge and experience that I gained was more than I ever could have expected."
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For more information on the UN Boot Camp speakers and the schedule of the week, please click here. |
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Boot Camp participants at the Central Park Zoo |
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Dr. Al Khalafalla and Mrs. Khalafalla
with Boot Camp Participants |
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Boot camp participants at the Jefferson Memorial |
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Briefing at UN Mission to the UN by Laurie Phipps |
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The Humpty Dumpty Institute ("Humpty Dumpty") is a unique non-profit organization dedicated to tackling difficult global and domestic issues by establishing innovative and strategic public/private partnerships that provide sensible solutions to serious problems. Humpty Dumpty’s partners include the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, various countries, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, celebrities, other leaders, and a host of other NGOs.
Based on a philosophy of providing long-term sustainable and holistic solutions, Humpty Dumpty’s programs focus on overcoming humanitarian and development challenges. Humpty Dumpty’s past programs have removed landmines and unexploded bombs, provided food to the hungry, delivered health care efficiently to the sick and impoverished, provided literacy and education to women and girls, improved animal conservation efforts and expanded public and cultural diplomacy.
Humpty Dumpty’s newest initiative seeks to improve child nutrition in the United States and elsewhere through "Breakfast at School", a program that provides free breakfast to school children in partnership with various state governments. Learn more by visiting: www.TheHDI.org
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