The International Child Art Foundation, the only national art and creativity organization for children in the U.S., is bringing together ten Greek-Cypriot and ten Turkish-Cypriot youth for peace education and leadership training. The program’s objective is to prepare the students to live side by side in an open society.

Tue. July 16
Topic: Cross-Cultural Advertising
Guest: Ronnie Lipton

Our guest will examine the challenges of creating appropriate cultural messages by advertisers, to effectively speak to multiethnic audiences.

Wed, July 17
Topic: Cyberterror
Guests: Marc D. Goodman, Digital Security & Investigations Group
               Jeff Bedser, security specialist

A new Cyber Security Information Act is being sponsored in Congress. Our guests will discuss the threats that exit in the cyber world and what a cybersecurity agency could do to protect he nation’s public and private information infrastructures.

Thr. July 18
Topic:  Women's Political Leadership in Latin America
Guests:  Theresa Loar, Pres. of Vital Voices Global Partnership
                 Isabel Londono, PhD, Director, Leadership Organization,
                 Colombia
                 Minou Tavarez Mirabel, Member of Congress, Dominican Republic
                 Gladys Anabella de Leon Ruiz, Member of Congress, Guatemala
                 Yolanda Carolina Falcon Lizaraso, Human Rights Ombudsman 
                 Representative, Peru

Vital Voices is holding a special program at the Global Leadership Institute
for women from Latin America. The guests will discuss issues of women's political leadership in post-conflict regions, the links between women's political
participation and lower rates of government corruption and human rights and
women.

Fri. July 19
Topic: The Failure of Corporate Leadership
Guests: TBA

The corporate world of the United States is going through a crisis. Corporate officers who cheat investors or harm employee pensions will face new criminal charges, but how does this effect people outside the U.S.? Our guests will discus how the U.S. corporate world could have fallen so low and what lessons should be learned from their misdeeds.