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Learn Ways to Establish and Maintain a Succesful SWA Chapter!
Establishing a successful SWA chapter on your campus takes time and energy. With this toolkit, we provide you with a variety of ideas for recruiting, fundraising and hosting events. Using the suggestions in this toolkit and your own creativity, we are confident that you can establish and maintain an effective chapter.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond
While many authors focus on successful development as
a model for effective government practices, few delve
into answering the questions about failure. Jared Diamond
focuses on a discussion of failed societies and collapsed
civilizations.
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Discuss Pressing Global Issues with other Student World Assembly Members
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Tackling
Corporate Social Responsibility
Location: Peshawar,
Pakistan
Date: September
21, 2007
 On
the 21st of September, the SWA chapter at the Institute
of Management Sciences held a forum to discuss the
issue of corporate social responsibility. The forum
served as a platform to address this concept that
is essential to the emergence of a dedication to sustainable
development by individuals, businesses, and governments.
Students were given a full overview of the various
facets of corporate social responsibility in preparation
for an upcoming seminar on the topic later in the
fall.
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SWA Nigeria Celebrates International Youth Day
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Date: August 12, 2007
 On
the 12th of August, SWA Nigeria participated in the
annual International Youth Day celebration in the
capital city of Abuja. SWA was honored to be among
the first five student NGO’s to be invited by
the National Youth Council of Nigeria to participate
in this event. International Youth Day, this year
entitled "Be Seen, Be Heard: Youth Participation
for Development," aims to celebrate the achievements
of youth around the world and serves to promote innovative
ideas for effective youth action, displaying that
the youth of today can make a difference. By participating
in such an event, SWA Nigeria continues to establish
themselves among leading development and democracy
groups in the region.
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Chapter
Kick-Off Event at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
Location: Awka, Nigeria
Date: August
9, 2007
 On
August 9th, 2007, students in Awka, Nigeria, launched
the most recent addition to SWA-Nigeria: a Chapter
SWA at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK). This
preliminary information session was intended to inform
new members about the presence of the organization
on campus, and to propose potential group goals for
the upcoming school year.
The chapter founder, Okafor Ikenna, greeted event-attendees
and reviewed organization objectives - both locally
and globally. SWA’s Regional Representative,
Charles Akponah, then gave an overview of SWA’s
mission and operational structure. In addition, those
in attendance were given an opportunity to learn about
the 2007 Annual International Convention that took
place in Accra, Ghana on the topic of Human Trafficking.
Finally, the members of the newly formed chapter
discussed and formed a planning committee on the upcoming
Chapter Kick- Off Event, scheduled for sometime in
November. New chapter officers on the planning committee
include Umeakoli Benjamin .O., Ekemezie Ikechukwu
.B. , Anakor Ethel Ikenna, Ossai Ifeanyi Anthony and
Light Chukwue Ube.
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Our
Democratic Philosophy
The Student World Assembly believes that true global democracy affirms fundamental human rights, which include the dignity and worth of all human beings, the equal rights of men and women, social, economic and cultural justice for every person, and the freedom to promote these causes. SWA's representative democracy offers a powerful instrument for addressing the vital social and political conditions that threaten our global future. The informed wishes of the people, conveyed through the collective of a democratic assembly, need to be heard in the decision-making processes. By giving students from the most remote to the more accessible institutions an equal voice, we are enabling all students to educate, participate and take action, and to begin thinking of themselves as global citizens.
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