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Bullying is NOT a rite of passage.

A youth activist asks Nabozny a question in the event’s open forum

“What would you say to the kids who are at the point of suicide?” a student stood up to ask in AED’s packed theater. “First, that you are not alone,” answered Jamie Nabozny, an activist against bullying who was abused by his peers throughout middle and high school. “You have . . .

The story of the story in international development

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“We have spent 50 years trying to take advantage of the media, with radio andnow with online tools, to effect social change through the use of stories,” said Stepehen F. Moseley, AED president and CEO, in his remarks that opened the launch of a new way for international development to . . .

Spotlight on Iraq – The Role of Higher Education

Dr Abdul Hadi Al Khalili, cultural attache from the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq, listens to Iraqi students at the AED Globe Theater with AED Senior Vice President and Director of the Leadership and Institutional Development Group Bonnie Barhyte, and Sandra MacDonald-Davis, vice president and director of the AED Center for Academic Partnerships.

The cultural attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in the United States, Dr. Abdul Hadi Al Khalili, spoke at the AED Globe Theater on Tuesday in a symposium about the role of higher education in the future of Iraq. Joining Dr. Al Khalili on a panel were . . .

In Pictures

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View photos of the event on AED’s Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/aedphotos/sets/72157625164763677/. //

`Women do X, men do Y’

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An AED-FAO conference on how experts in nutrition and agriculture can collaborate to establish global food security took a closer look at the role of women and gender in an afternoon breakout session. Kathleen Kurz, from AED, moderated the discussion. She opened by noting that as efforts to improve nutrition . . .