Sentences with phrase «international understanding»

He was deeply impressed by the difference between a religious and a secular international conference, by the greater possibility at the former of generating truly international understanding.

She was honored with the Philippines - based Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in 1962.

In 1962, Mother Teresa was awarded the Padma Shri, followed by the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1972 and the Bharat Ratna in 1980.

CASIE works with educators to promote international understanding through education programs, research, discussion, policy planning and workshops.

Interventions include hacking public utilities to provide discounted or free services, as in the case of Mejor Vida Corp., which she founded in 1998, and her recently founded International Understanding Foundation; as well as her poetic marking of river stones for her 2010 performance Rio Bravo Crossing.

Hand in Hand won a Golden Globe for Best Film Promoting International Understanding, a category retired in 1964 after 19 years in existence.

Established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, in memory of seventeen - year - old John Simon Guggenheim, the elder of their two sons, who died April 26, 1922, the Foundation has sought from its inception to «add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding,» as the Senator explained in his initial Letter of Gift (March 26, 1925).

NSF International understands the challenges businesses face, and provides timely and pertinent training and instruction in the areas of sustainability, consumer products and NSF food equipment standards.

«The basis for the EU's common foreign and security policy (CFSP) remains «soft» power: the use of diplomacy - backed where necessary by trade, aid and peacekeepers - to resolve conflicts and bring about international understanding.»

«I will also make further efforts to gain international understanding.»

As a reading specialist who promotes intercultural and international understandings by engaging children and adolescents in exploring cultures through global literature, winning this giveaway would be very special.

They develop international understanding and a global outlook.

8:30 AM — 9:15 AM Keynote: Dr. Joshua Starr, CEO, PDK International Understanding Public Attitudes About Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and more.

foster school curricula that encourages international understanding and goodwill, and a respect for the human rights and dignity across all races and cultures; 5.

Lane and Caldwell vowed a return to Andrew Carnegie's vision for the exhibition as a means to advance international understanding, and assembled a team of American and European advisors in hopes of organizing the show by a «truly bilateral process.»

(12) Article 1 (a) of UNESCO's 1974 Recommendation Concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Unlike the Mejor Vida Corp., Cuevas's International Understanding Foundation (IUF), structured like an institution mandated to serve the public good, features a mission statement and a board of trustees.

The Center for the Advancement and Study of International Education (CASIE) is a non-profit organization that promotes multi-language programs, the International Baccalaureate, and international understanding in K - 12 schools in the United States and abroad.

ROGER LALLOUETTE Deputy French High Commissioner: «If they take place in the spirit of their founder, they promote better international understanding.

ISER's purpose is to examine educational reform from a global perspective, discuss common issues facing educational leaders, and promote international understanding.

As long as that language is spoken by sportsmen as true amateurs and not as tools of national ambition, I think the Olympics will aid in international understanding.»

Progressives saw it as an instrument of social equity and international understanding.

The book launch will be chaired by the Secretary General of the AAU, Prof. Etiene Ehile and launched by the president of GUNI Africa Prof. Okebukola, a UNESCO Kalinga Laureatte and Director of the UNESCO Institute for African Culture and International Understanding.

Erstwhile governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has explained why Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka recently launched verbal attack on him over the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding.

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The interest in Moldova came about because Winston - Salem, a university town that grew up on tobacco money, began a sister - city relationship with Ungheni, and Lavender asked some visiting Ungheni dignitaries and the North Carolina Center for International Understanding to help her find a partnership school.

The global dimension is well described by the idea of «international education» — the term brought up by the United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organisation (hereinafter UNESCO)(going in line with abovementioned human rights acts) gathering together different connotations of terms «international understanding», «co-operation» and «peace» as an indivisible whole (12).

(12) 10 UNESCO Commission for Education, Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 19 November 1974, art 1 (b).

Championed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, Ambassador Edwin Reischauer and other key figures, the newly - founded International Christian University (ICU) took up a vision that would educate future generations of leaders dedicated to international understanding and cooperation.

The need to broaden our international understanding is critical, yet promoting international education remains an uphill battle.

The pattern is very clear in the education systems where global themes and building consciousness on world problems are not relevant in comparison with micro-national visions of different themes that don't lead to international understanding and cooperation within nations and peoples.

XIIth International Veterinary Congress Prize, which recognizes an AVMA member who contributed to international understanding of veterinary medicine.

In an op - ed in the New York Times about the world's coolest places, columnist Nick Kristof writes that travel can also be an education, a step toward empathy and international understanding.

I was the director for the MSU London study abroad program one summer, and it highlighted, firsthand by over 350 students, their stories and lives, how important study abroad is: global citizenship is the key to international understanding.

For 50 years, the U.S. Department of State has promoted cross-cultural dialogue and international understanding through its Art in Embassies program — and Torpedo Factory artists are proud to be part of it.

She is the founder of Mejor Vida Corp. (1998) and the International Understanding Foundation (2016).

For 50 years, the U.S. Department of State has promoted cross-cultural dialogue and international understanding through its Art in Embassies program — and Torpedo Read More...

By: Lee McDavid, Arctic Program Manager, Institute of Arctic Studies Dartmouth College, Dickey Center for International Understanding

He was Deputy Director of UNESCO - APCEIU (Asia Pacific Centre for Education for International Understanding), Seoul, S.Korea.

At the same time, learning and action at the local scale can translate back (especially through organizations such as Second Nature, and efforts such as the US National Climate Assessment) to impact national and international understanding.