Gulen Institute Youth Platfrom announces essay contest: ‘Hospitality in the Global Village’


Date posted: October 23, 2012

The Gulen Institute Youth Platform has announced its “Annual Essay Contest” topic for 2013: Hospitality in the Global Village. The Gulen Institute Youth Platform encourages all high school students from the U.S. and from around the world to participate the contest.

The youth platform hopes that this essay will help young minds define problems related to stable peace and social harmony, discuss them, and offer possible solutions from their own perspectives; contribute to achieving a positive impact on society by building social skills; help students improve research and writing skills that are so essential prior to college years; and it is a lifetime opportunity for students to exchange ideas with their peers both from national and global levels.

This topic, Hospitality in the Global Village, is particularly important as people uprooted by natural disasters and warfare move across borders into regions often populated with those of different cultures, ethnicities, and social customs. Unfortunately, migrations often result in increased friction in the Global Village. In fact migrants fleeing for safety often find unwelcome reception in cultures with long practiced customs. Often host peoples are themselves collections of minorities who themselves envision threats from newcomers.

Winners of the last contest were presented their awards on May 30, 2012 at Capitol Hill, at the House of Representatives’ Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington, D.C.

Important Dates

January 18, 2013: Deadline for the submission of essays.

February 22, 2013 : Results will be announced.

TBA: Award Ceremony.

Visit Youth Platform’s web site for more information.

Tags: | | |


Related News

Borough President Adams Celebrates Eid with Food Donation

With the city recently following up on it’s secular image by declaring Islamic and Chinese religious holidays for school children, so too is the Brooklyn Borough President following suit by recognizing the diversity in his borough.

Commentary: Abuses rampant in wake of Turkish coup

We don’t know a lot. But what we do know should cause us to ask our elected officials to look carefully at any request for extradition for Fethullah Gulen. We don’t know everything, but we know that the post-coup crackdown has included public appeals “to be protected from the evil things of educated people.” Nearly 60,000 have been detained. Some 1,600 university academic deans have been relieved of their positions.

Talking with the “Religious Terrorist” that Turkey Wants Trump to Extradite

Regardless of the threat Gulen poses as the purported leader of an international apparatus, any movement is a threat in that it is not easily controlled. If Gulen is right, and Erdogan fears anything that he cannot control, then the Gulen movement with its critical stance towards what it regards as abuses of the public trust, must seem threatening indeed.

NPR’s Interview with Gulen – He Denies Involvement In Coup Attempt

From his exile compound in the Poconos, the cleric accused by the Turkish government of leading a failed coup attempt last year, Fethullah Gulen, denies any involvement.

Kimse Yok Mu reaches out to orphans in Mongolia

International charity organization Kimse Yok Mu extended helping hand to orphanages in Mongolia during the holy month of Ramadan. Monoglian officials also thanked to the KYM and Khen ch baikhgui for their efforts and presented certificate of appreciation them.

Introducing the Hizmet Movement

I thank the organizers for this invitation to be part of the inaugural dinner of the conference “Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement.” I am also grateful to Georgetown University for hosting this event.

Latest News

Fethullah Gulen – man of education, peace and dialogue – passes away

Fethullah Gülen’s Condolence Message for South African Human Rights Defender Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Hizmet Movement Declares Core Values with Unified Voice

Ankara systematically tortures supporters of Gülen movement, Kurds, Turkey Tribunal rapporteurs say

Erdogan possessed by Pharaoh, Herod, Hitler spirits?

Devious Use of International Organizations to Persecute Dissidents Abroad: The Erdogan Case

A “Controlled Coup”: Erdogan’s Contribution to the Autocrats’ Playbook

Why is Turkey’s Erdogan persecuting the Gulen movement?

Purge-victim man sent back to prison over Gulen links despite stage 4 cancer diagnosis

In Case You Missed It

Bulgarian student wins Turkish Olympiad song contest final

Turkish groups call for global peace at historic İstanbul meeting

Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) bridging Eastern, Western worlds

Gülen-inspired schools lead in university entrance exam results

Deputy Prime Minister Arınç praises Turkish schools in Nigeria

Kimse Yok Mu reach out its helping held by distributing meat in Mongolia

Reps urge Federal Govt to intervene in Nigerian students’ detention in Turkey

Copyright 2025 Insightful Neighbor