April 28th, 2008 by Stephen

On Friday and Saturday, POMED held a conference in Rabat, Morocco entitled, “Find Your Voice: A Cross-Cultural Forum on Political Participation and Civic Activism.” The conference brought together 25 American and 25 Moroccan students and young professionals to explore pathways to youth empowerment through political participation, civil society activism, media and blogging. The conference was organized by Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), and the Institut National de la Jeunesse et la Démocratie (INJD), an initiative under the Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The conference was a tremendous success, and it kicked off the 2008 “Young Global Leaders Forum: Democratic Development in the Middle East and North Africa” series of conferences. The next conference will be this coming weekend in Cairo, followed by a third conference May 29-31 in Amman, Jordan.

A preliminary report on the Morocco conference is now available here.

Check back in the days and weeks ahead for more detailed reports from the conference including the policy recommendations formulated and approved democratically by the American and Moroccan conference participants.

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