Monday, June 22, 2009

Supporting the Work of Citizen Diplomacy Organizations and Encouraging the Convening of a Presidential Summit on Global Citizen Diplomacy

Last Friday, June 19, 2009 Representative James Moran (D-VA8) introduced House Resolution 569 Supporting the work of citizen diplomacy organizations and encouraging the convening of a Presidential Summit on Global Citizen Diplomacy.

This, of course, is huge in terms of gaining attention for citizen diplomacy, exchanges, study abroad, etc. as it comes at a time when the
Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act has just passed with the House Foreign Affairs Reauthorization Act.

H. Res. 569 currently has the following eight cosponsors: Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC9); Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY22); Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA1); Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-AZ5); Rep. David Loebsack (D-IA2); Rep. Thomas Latham (R-IA4); Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT3); and, Rep. James McGovern (D-MA3)

The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy just circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter throughout the U.S. House of Representatives to sign on and cosponser this Resolution. I urge all IHEC Blog readers to contact their Representatives and encourage them to cosponsor this Resolution. The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy is working on a letter that citizens and organizations can use to send to their respective Representatives and I will update IHEC Blog readers on this as soon as I receive word from The Center. I want to thank my colleague Derek Forsythe from the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy for putting this on my radar last Thursday and to Google Alerts for providing me a link to the House Resolution itself.

You can learn more information on H. Res. 569
here on Govtrack.us.

I also want to encourage IHEC Blog readers to learn more about the Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy and to take 30 seconds out of your day to sign the letter to President Barack Obama in support of this initiative. You can learn more about the Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy and sign the letter on The Center’s website right here!

You can read past IHEC Blog posts focusing on Citizen Diplomacy here.

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