| 24th IYLC Facilitator Team |
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Being a facilitator at the IYLC is an incredibly competitive position. CCI strives to build a team of highly skillful and motivated facilitators who are accomplished, mature and represent different geographic areas. It helps develop not only leadership, management and communication skills but also mutual understanding and cultural awareness. Above all, position of facilitator is a huge international work experience opportunity. The facilitator position requires a strong understanding of the mission behind CCI and the purpose of IYLC. Applicants will be selected based on their leadership skills, independent activities, and their cooperation on promotion of the Conference and its ideas in their region. We appreciate applicants who can help us with marketing and build University partners You can apply for a facilitators position for the 24th IYLC-Prague now! The applications will be accepted until May 31st, 2012.
Lee-El Lewihnson Lee-El is a 24 year old Israeli, currently studying International Relations and Sociology-Anthropology at the Hebrew University. Lee-El has been active and very involved in UNICEF, as well as the LATET organization (A Non –profit Israeli humanitarian aid, active in Israel and around the world). Lee-El served in the IDF, as an Officer, and was then sent by the Jewish Agency to represent Israel at a Jewish summer camp in New York. Growing up in the United Sates and moving to Israel, at age 11 along with her personal life experience have all played an important part in strengthening and forming Lee-El's opinions and ideology regarding leadership, the importance of education for co-existence, and the future of the Middle East/ While she is committed to advocacy for Israel through education, making and upholding personal connections with people from around the world and representing her country, Lee-El aspires to continue to be active in these fields in the future. Researching and learning about Regional Integration as a future solution for the Middle East, Educating for co-existence and continuing to connect with students from all over the world are her main goals for the near future.
Lamya Marafi Lamya graduated with honors majoring in Middle East Studies from The American University in Cairo. She was awarded the Student Leaders for Service fellowship in her senior year, where she worked in a team to establish Advocates for Civic Engagement (ACE) -- a youth leadership program fostering social responsibility and creating an empowered volunteer community of students. She was also one of the student organizers to Queen Rania of Jordan significant speech at university on Arab philanthropy and youth civic engagement. Apart from university, Lamya was a facilitator at Soliya, a non-profit organization that empowers young adults to bridge the divide between the "West" and the "Arab & Muslim World" through videoconferencing. Lamya was recently in Poland for a development internship in the Podkarpackie province, conducting workshops in high schools on cultural diversity, religious tolerance, entrepreneurship, and leadership. She is currently a writer based in Cairo for NextBillion.net, a website and blog in the U.S that explores the connection between development and social enterprise.
Andreas Mjelva Andreas returns to Prague after having spent six months in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia working for the Royal Norwegian embassy. This summer Andreas completed his master degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Oslo. He has also a Master of Arts in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. The last couple of years, Andreas has worked with human rights and democracy issues for the former Norwegian Prime Minister at the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights. He is very passionate about football and has worked as a coordinator and coach in several sports projects. Andreas has also taken part in different volunteering project in the Dominican Republic, Tanzania and Norway. Andreas was a participant in the 17th IYLC and a facilitator in the 18th, 19th, 20th and the 21st IYLC. He is extremely excited to be coming back and making new friends!
Vanessa Picker Vanessa commenced a law degree in 2011, after developing a strong interest in international law and international relations, whilst working at the Directorate of International Government Agreements and Arrangements, in Australia. This opportunity arose during the 2010 Royal Australian Air Force Gap Year. In the Gap Year, Vanessa completed Officer’s training and various legal work placements, assisting with providing legal advice, in relation to operations law, administrative law and military discipline law. In 2011, Vanessa represented the International Law Commission in the Asia Pacific Model United Nations Conference, and compiled a report that was submitted to the Asia Pacific Centre on the Responsibility to Protect. Additionally, she represented Australia at the One Young World Summit in Switzerland; a global forum for young leaders to meet and compile responses to key global issues. Vanessa is also studying Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide, as she is interested in starting innovative ventures that have the potential to significantly impact economies and communities. Vanessa participated in the 22ndInternational Youth Leadership Conference and she is excited to be able to facilitate. She aims to encourage all participants to challenge themselves throughout the conference, recognising that there is no challenge more difficult and rewarding than the challenge to continuously improve yourself.
Laszlo Sarkany Laszlo was born in the Republic of Serbia, and has lived in four countries and on two continents by the time he was 16 years old. After living in Sweden and Hungary as refugees from the former Yugoslavia, Laszlo and his mother settled in Canada in 1994 – in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Following high school – where he mostly played soccer and did homework – Laszlo earned a B.A. and an M.A. in political science from the University of Waterloo before being accepted into the Ph.D. program at The University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. Laszlo’s academic interests lie in the International Criminal Court – and, in particular, the sources of the proprio motu powers of the Prosecutor of the ICC. He enjoys learning about all aspects of international relations, comparative politics, international criminal justice, democracy, and the cognitive dimensions of politics and philosophy. At the present time, Laszlo teaches a third year course on globalization in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario – the home of the ‘Blackberry’. This coming December Laszlo will be attending the Assembly of States Parties meeting of the International Criminal Court at the United Nations in New York, where a new Prosecutor for the Court will be chosen. When not thinking about cooperation in the international realm, or how one should think about cooperation, Laszlo works at the YMCAs of Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo as a Coordinator for a very unique program called the ‘Virtual Y’ which is run out of two elementary schools located in under-serviced areas of Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge, Ontario. He also works and as a Program Instructor at the YMCA in health, fitness, recreation, and teen leadership programs. During the summers, Laszlo coordinates a summer camp for the local YMCA where he leads a staff team about 10-12 young adults. Laszlo is extremely excited to be a part of the IYLC again, following an 8-year absence.
The First Facilitator of the 24th IYLC (deferred from 23rd IYLC) Aitzaz Rehman Sheikh Presently a postgraduate student of Public Policy at King’s College London, Aitzaz attended the 11th International Youth Leadership Conference in 2007, shortly prior to the commencement of his undergraduate degree in Pakistan, where he was born and raised. Although Aitzaz has since yearned to revisit Prague, the motivation to do so predominantly stems from the significance he associates to the experiences that he has gained from such initiatives. Over the last five years, Aitzaz has developed nothing short of an addiction for public-speaking and youth leadership projects, which has resulted in his participation in several dozen conferences in Germany, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Accordingly, this passion culminated in Aitzaz’s endeavors towards the establishment of the MUN Society of Pakistan, a non-governmental organization, which he currently serves as its President. A strong advocate of both the preservation of human rights and rapid nuclear-weapons disarmament, Aitzaz is greatly inspired by a quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men”. |
