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• Media Advisory: New Caribbean HIV/AIDS Project
  (12/6/2011) World Learning is proud to be part of a new initiative that could help save lives and fundamentally change the way Caribbean nations address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
  
  
  
• Christian Parenti Discusses the Links Between Climate Change and Violence
  (11/21/2011) Author and journalist Christian Parenti spoke to SIT Graduate Institute students about his prediction that the consequences of climate change will go beyond extreme weather to include increased regional and global conflict. 
  
  
• SIT to Organize Symposium in Rwanda
  (11/16/2011) Researchers and other experts will come together in Rwanda from January 10 – 13, 2012 to discuss the links between conflict and memory. The symposium is organized by the SIT Graduate Institute and SIT Study Abroad.
  
  
• World Learning Gives Mother, Daughter Global “Four-sight”
  (10/31/2011) Many families boast of multi-generational ties to one or two of World Learning's programs, but few can match that of a mother-daughter duo connected to four programs.
  
  
• SIT Alumna Wins Fellowship for Prisoner Art Project
  (10/27/2011) World Learning congratulates the newest recipient of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship, which returns alumni of its undergraduate study abroad program to their host countries to conduct human rights projects.
  
  

In The News

• Nobel Laureate Says Award Empowers Women (Associated Press)
  December 09, 2011
  Yemeni democracy advocate and World Learning alumna Tawakkol Karman said the period in which women appear as victims rather than leaders has ended, in remarks a day before she accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.
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• Study Abroad Programs Remain Popular (SentinelSource.com)
  December 05, 2011
  The number of US undergraduates studying abroad increased by four percent last year, with more and more interested in programs like the ones World Learning offers in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East through SIT Study Abroad.
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• World Learning Alumna Tops 2011 Global Thinkers List (Foreign Policy)
  November 29, 2011
  Yemeni democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman tied for the number one spot on this year's Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers list. Karman, who participated in a State Department sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program tour of the United States, was chosen for "keeping the spirit of the Arab Spring alive."
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• Students Become "World Travelers" with the Experiment (naplesnews.com)
  November 26, 2011
  Seven Florida high school students had the chance to go "far, far away" from home this summer on Experiment trips to China, Ghana, Morocco, Thailand, and other countries.
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• SIT Professor Promotes Peace with "Strait Talk" (The Brown Daily Herald)
  November 15, 2011
  Tatsushi Arai, associate professor of conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute, coordinated the seventh annual Strait Talk Symposium at Brown University, which aims to improve relations between China and Taiwan.
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