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Press and Media Coverage about the VCWA

Read about the disrupted panel at UVM on oil in the Niger Delta in the Burlington Free Press .

Check out great photos from the French Ambassador's visit on our Facebook page and read about
his visit in the Free Press.

IVLP alum Illies Sahar, an Algerian journalist specializing in energy issues, particularly the oil and gas
industry writes about Vermont in the Algerian newspaper El Watan (scroll to p. 13).

Open World journalists from Yaroslavl profiled in The Charlotte News

Burlington-Yaroslavl Sister City Open World visitors in the Addison Independent

Hear Peter Garang Deng speak about his book at the Fletcher Free Library.

Seven Days and Stuck in Vermont about our April IVLP group (19 visitors from 18 countries!) and our collaboration with The Root Center for Earth Day.

Watch Peter Godwin's talk at the University of Vermont in 2011

Read about the visit of the Ambassador of Liechtenstein to Middlebury College in 2011

See Canadian Consul General Patrick Binns' October talk on CCTV in 2011

Equal Time Radio's December 2010 discussion of international visitors in Vermont featuring retired diplomats and Vermonters Peter Galbraith and Bill Harwood, and Rick Weston of the Regulatory Assistance Project, Montpelier.

Read about the real-world impact of VCWA visitors' programs for a disability activist from Kazakhstan who visited Vermont in 2008.

Group of Egyptian Science Educators Comes to Vermont

Jericho Author Brian Till on "Conversations With Power"

VCWA hosts Fulbright Scholars fro m 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!)

Ambassador of Iraq to the United States Samir Sumaida'ie meets with the Vermont National Guard
And watch him on VPT's Profile as a guest of Fran Stoddard

Russian Open World Group(February 2011) profiled on"Learning About Government in Vermont " and meeting with high school students: "From Russia with Questions" in the Burlington Free Press

Champlain Business Journal profiles the VCWA (December 2010)

Press release on the Burlington-Yaroslavl Sister City Open World Group, December 2010

Article on the group's television appearances highlighted in the Open World national newsletter.

Press release on Middle Eastern visitors on food security and sustainable development, November 2010

Read about the Middle Eastern group's visit in the Hardwick Gazette (Dec, 3, 2010)

Press release on Indonesian visitors on environmental law and sustainable forestry, November 2010

Tom Miller, Vice President, Business for Diplomatic Action, on "Why Citizen Diplomacy is Good for Business" (August 2010, PowerPoint) and radio interview

Multi-National Group of Young Community Leaders Visits the Institute for Sustainable Communities

The "Hardwick Gazette" profiles Latin American group (June 2010)

The National League of Cities and Towns reports on Russian visitors to Vermont municipalities
(February 2010)

Vermont Inspires Disability Activist to Create Two New Companies in Kazakhstan (2008)