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AIESEC and United Nations Millennium Campaign Partnership

15. October 2014/0 Comments/in News /by Zain Qasim

On Wednesday September 19, 2014 AIESEC and United Nations Millennium Campaign signed a letter of Intent for collaboration. The letter was signed by Vinicius Tsugue, President of AIESEC International and Corinne Woods, Director of UN Millennium Campaign in New York City. AIESEC was established in 1948 in order to achieve peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential […]

Turn to the Leader in the Mirror

22. August 2014/0 Comments/in Leadership /by Zain Qasim

“This moment in history demands that we stop waiting on others to solve the problems and right the wrongs of our times.” At 66th AIESEC International Congress 2014 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Arianna Huffington addressed more than 700 young leaders from 124 countries and territories. In her message to young people, she addressed the concept of “leading the […]

AIESEC Everyday Leader Series — Everyday Leaders Changing the World. Submit Your Story!

29. July 2014/0 Comments/in Leadership /by Zain Qasim

World Peace may just be attainable. AIESEC Everyday Leader Series — Everyday Leaders Changing the World. AIESEC Everyday Leader series highlights powerful stories and lessons from thought and everyday leaders from around the world. The stories illustrate on how World Peace may just be attainable through the actions of everyday leaders who are working towards the peace […]

How Young People Contribute to Changing The World Everyday

28. July 2014/0 Comments/in Leadership /by Zain Qasim

Written by Ivana Gusic, Head of Public Relations and Marketing at AIESEC in Austria This is not a story about current conflicts that are happening in the world. It is not about rockets flying over our skies or ending wars. It is about smaller things. Little things. But the kind of little things that keep a person […]

How World Peace Begins With Everyday Leaders

22. July 2014/0 Comments/in Leadership /by Zain Qasim

AIESEC World Peace series highlights the stories and lessons from thought and everyday leaders from around the world on how World Peace may just be attainable. Contribute your story. — World Peace. It has been humanity’s eternal, elusive dream. A dream that has inspired influential leaders like Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Wangari Maathai, and Malala […]

Karachi; a more open city than expected.

31. August 2016/0 Comments/in Cultural Understanding /by Zain Qasim

An account of how her perspective of our city changed after being a guest of AIESEC in Karachi, through the Global Volunteer Program operated by AIESEC, from Liu Siqi, who came to us from China as a social intern for ‘Project ILM’. In her own words… “In our imagination , Muslim women are forced to […]

AIESEC Participates at UN ECOSOC Forum on Youth

2. February 2015/0 Comments/in Events /by Zain Qasim

This generation of young people – the largest the world has ever seen – has a historic opportunity to end poverty, combat climate change, create jobs and fight injustice, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a Youth Forum at UN Headquarters in New York this morning as he called on the participants to get involved […]

Living Diversity for World Peace

29. January 2015/0 Comments/in Cultural Understanding /by Zain Qasim

The World’s Very Real Need for Cultural Understanding AIESEC emerged from a period in time when cultural understanding was at an all-time low. In the years following the Second World War, the whole of the European continent was ravaged to the ground. Each nation was coping with its own grave losses, and between all countries […]

Happy Holidays

25. December 2014/0 Comments/in News /by Zain Qasim

Give the gift of gratitude Did you know? Giving gratitude and happiness is linked. Give thanks and warm wishes to those who have helped empower you to become the person you are today. It is in these special moments of peace and warmth where we can find joy and rekindled bonds that fuel us for the coming new year. To […]

TEDx talks that inspire a different perspective on World Peace

17. December 2014/0 Comments/in Cultural Understanding /by Zain Qasim

We live in a world where seemingly small things like intolerance and misunderstanding of people’s differences have caused large-scale conflict, destruction and even wars. World peace can seem like an impossible thing, but we at AIESEC interpret it a little differently. ‘Peace’ should not be interpreted necessarily as absence of a major war. ‘Peace’ symbolizes […]

The Skills of 2020 and Changing Leadership

10. December 2014/0 Comments/in Leadership, Skills Development /by Zain Qasim

The societies we live in today are vastly different from what they were twenty, or even ten, years ago. The pace of the world is increasing exponentially, due to technology and its effects on the daily life of human beings. The most prevalent of these effects is no doubt the capacity for global connection. TIME […]

Top 5 Things Keeping Youth Complacent

21. November 2014/0 Comments/in Personal Effectiveness /by Zain Qasim

Hi, I’m Jessie, and I’m part of the North American millennial generation. And as someone who identifies as part of this generation, I have no problem telling you that I believe complacency runs rampant among North American youth. This is not a particularly new idea; we’ve heard before that millennials are notorious for being narcissistic […]

Youth on the Move

11. November 2014/0 Comments/in Youth mobility /by Zain Qasim

Do you know anyone who has gone abroad for any internship, youth program or university scholarship? Have you ever seen any foreigners in your own country? Have you at least once searched online about work, study or travel abroad opportunities? Well, let’s face it, we have all answered yes at least once, if not three times. […]

5 things Millennials Care About the Most

11. November 2014/0 Comments/in Cultural Understanding /by Zain Qasim

We call them lazy and demanding. We judge them and find them narcissistic. However looking at raw data they are not so bad after all. Here are 5 things that millennials care about the most nowadays, according to the YouthSpeak survey powered by AIESEC. 1 . Gaining new skills New gadgets, iPhones and tablets are […]

Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize: Seventeen Years of an Admirable Story

10. November 2014/0 Comments/in Cultural Understanding, Leadership /by Zain Qasim

More or less seventeen years ago, in Mingora, the largest city in the Pakistani district of Swat, a baby girl was born. The date was precisely July 12th and she was welcomed by her family with great love and joy. It is interesting to imagine, so many years afterwards, that the whole world would hold […]

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