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The Vermont Council on World Affairs:

• brings programs on topics of global importance to Vermont
• makes statesmanship something you can embrace by bringing hundreds of international visitors to Vermont. Vermonters have an incredible aptitude for citizen diplomacy and make a difference.

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Monday, February 13

7 p.m.
Champlain College, Alumni Auditorium

Campus Map #27

Ciaran is Irish-born but has spent much of his life living in Germany and working as a German lawyer. From 2007 to 2009, he was a senior visiting faculty member at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, lecturing on International Business, Globalization, EU Government & Politics. He returned to Ireland in the summer of 2009 to practise law and started teaching for Champlain College Dublin in Fall 2009.

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Without your support the world is flat, to quote VCWA Global Symposium speaker Thomas Friedman. Please renew your membership for 2012 by making a tax-deductible donation today. We believe the VCWA makes this world a little safer for us and for our children. We hope you cannot imagine Vermont and a world without our hard work. Click here for our secure link -- or contact us by mail (60 Main Street, Burlington 05401), phone (802-861-2343) or in person. We're counting on you.

Thank you for everything that you do!

The VCWA is part of a national network of more than 100 international visitor and world affairs councils around the country. It is an affiliate of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce in Burlington, Vermont, and has an ongoing partnership with Saint Michael’s College. Our office is at 60 Main Street in Burlington and we look forward to seeing you there.

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VCWA in the news:

• Watch Peter Godwin's talk at the University of Vermont
• Read about the visit of the Ambassador of Liechtenstein to Middlebury College
• See Canadian Consul General Patrick Binns' October talk on CCTV
• Jericho author Brian Till talks about his book, "Conversations with Power"
• VCWA hosts Fulbright Scholars from around the world and they tour Hardwick
• Watch an interview with Kurdistan's Special Representative to the United States on CCTV and watch his talk at Norwich University (ignore security warning!)
• Read about the Ambassador of Iraq's meeting with the Vermont National Guard
• And watch him on VPT's Profile as a guest of Fran Stoddard