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Togo - Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment Informal member gathering planned alongside confirmed in-person International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), the U.S. Department of State's premier professional exchange program.

Every year, military airstrikes in conflict zones like Iraq, Syria, and Libya result in thousands of civilian deaths and displacement. To shed light on the impact that civilians face in these conflict zones, the Council is hosting a discussion with the Director of Airwars, a non-profit transparency organization working to track, assess, and archive military actions and related civilian harm claims in conflict zones.

Discover the benefits of Peace Corps service from returned Volunteers. In honor of Black History Month, this interactive panel discussion of RPCVs will highlight their experience in Peace Corps.

​From neighborhood pop-up concerts to the formal stage, the Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change has been inspiring dialogue and action regarding domestic violence and other Liberian immigrant community concerns for the past two years.

When Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that “everyone in the world should read” (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,” comes to the Council to discuss his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone.

Doctors Without Borders is coming to Philadelphia for a FREE panel discussion!