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Teacher Fellows Return Home Energized May 26, 2011 Last week, IREX welcomed 72 teachers from fifteen different countries to Washington, D.C., for the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) End of Program Conference. These teachers spent the past five months in an intensive professional development program at one of five US Universities. The End of Program Conference is the culmination of the professional and cultural exchange experience that the teachers have gone through over the course of the semester. During the conference, teachers presented excerpts from original professional development teacher training modules that they created at their host universities on effective teaching methods such as active learning, sheltered instruction, and technology for instruction.	Beyond Internet Freedoms Conference in Iraq May 16, 2011 On May 16, 2011, marking the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD), the Kurdistan Regional Government Department of Information Technology and IREX are hosting a conference on Government Responses to the the Global Transparency Imperative. A Hands-on Training will follow May 17, 2011. Both activities will be at KRG IT Academy in Erbil.
IREX Biblionet Program in Romania to Host Top Gates Foundation Officials April 1, 2011 From April 5 to April 7, 2011 Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will travel to Bucharest to visit the Global Libraries Romania – Biblionet program. Burwell and Pearson will take part in a national panel discussion on the role that libraries can play in deploying e-government services and visit several of Romania’s rural libraries that are effectively addressing community development challenges.	Supporting Democracy in the Middle East: Tools and Strategy March 28, 2011 IREX is pleased to host the Project on Middle East Democracy seminar, "Supporting Democracy in the Middle East: Tools and Strategy."
Event: Social Media: Cutting Edge Campaigns January 13, 2011 Please join our panelists, young entrepreneurs, and innovators at the next SID-Washington Youth in Development workgroup session for a dynamic conversation on the immediate future of social media campaigns.	Event: Women Peace Builders November 2, 2010 by Troy Johnson On Noverber 10th, 2010 at 10:00 am IREX's CSML project will host an event that reflects upon the ways in which women have contributed to peace processes in conflict regions.
Event: Building Peace in Rwanda, Thurs, Oct 28 at 10:30am October 22, 2010 Eugene Gatari will discuss the causes of the conflict in Rwanda and examine different strategies and initiatives designed to address these causes	Chinese Educators Learn About American High School Journalism October 20, 2010 by Clare Ye Sheng Recently, we hosted a delegation of educators from northwestern China. The High School attached to Northwest Normal University is one of the high schools in which IREX is implementing a student journalism program.
Event: Conflict Mitigation through Youth Leadership, Oct 21 October 18, 2010 IREX Program Director in Lebanon, Peter Salloum, will share innovative approaches, examples, and lessons learned on working with youth to address conflict and corruption in Lebanon’s most divided communities.	Event: Approaches to Reaching Vulnerable Children and Youth, Sept 22 September 16, 2010 We invite you to a panel discussion that addresses the issue of vulnerable children and youth and the different approaches that are currently being used by the development community to reach them.