International Office welcomes young Liberals from around the world to Autumn Conference

International Office_with textThis year, the International Office is bringing a delegation of eight young liberals from around the world to take part in a Youth Leadership Programme, hosted at Party Conference in Bournemouth.

Our Youth Leadership Programme aims to develop a diverse group of young activists, and especially young candidates for elected office, with strong leadership and political skills and the capabilities to succeed as future leaders.

Participants in this programme come from diverse background and represent liberal parties and groups in Palestine, Egypt, Georgia, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and Bosnia.

They will have the chance to meet with other young liberals from around the world, including representatives from our own Liberal Youth, and to learn from each other’s experiences as young politicians and activists, sharing strategies to further the development of young leaders within their political parties and to reach out to under-represented groups.

Focussing on encouraging and supporting these young activists to run for elected office, our programme will include training sessions on how to engage with voters, media training and candidacy skills, with the aim to provide them with the skills necessary to maximise their influence within their parties at home and in their wider communities.

In addition to our training programme, representatives of our own Liberal Youth and other international liberal youth organisations in Europe will meet and engage with our delegation, sharing their experiences in establishing youth branches and influencing party policy, as well as on-the-ground campaigning.

In these developing democracies where liberalism and reform can be slow to take root, we are looking forward to working with a group of enthusiastic young liberals who are determined to be part of the driving force for liberalism in their home countries!

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2 Comments

  • Richard Underhill 26th Aug '15 - 12:43pm

    Bosnia and Herzegovina has a complicated history. Lots of BiH people live in the UK because they fled the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the then UK government allowed them in and granted them a temporary status then known as Exceptional Leave to Enter and renewal as Exceptional Leave to Remain. Exceptional did not mean unususall, there were large numbers of them, it meant outside the Immigration Rules at the discretion of the Secretary of State for the Home Office, but delegated to civil servants under a policy for administration.
    Assumptions should be eschewed, because many or most of the white-skinned Europeans will describe themselves as Muslims, a consequence of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1918. Being a muslim is not necessarily a religious description, counter-intuitive as that may seem, but a member of an ethnic group (in the language of the 1951 UN convention relating to the status of refugees).
    Some may drink alcohol and eat pork, contrary to the wishes of their religious leaders.
    A cartoonist depicted a game of football with three goalmouths, instead ot two, and with three balls.
    Comparisons with sectarian tribalism in Northern Ireland are relevant, but inexact because other sects/tribes/nations in the fight were nominally Roman Catholic or nominally Christian Orthodox.
    Slovenia and Croatia have already joined the European Union. Other Balkan countries can join, but must not fight each other, as they did before World War 1 and during World War 2.

  • Richard Underhill 26th Aug '15 - 12:46pm

    Exceptional Leave was superseded because of the Human Rights Act and divided into Humanitarian Protection and Discretionary Leave.

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