The Department of Information and International Relations of Central Tibetan Administration is convening Second Five-Fifty Youth Forum: Shaping Tibet’s Future, that will bring together a select group of 100 young Tibetans of the age group 20-35, from across the globe to discuss and deliberate on CTA’s Five-Fifty Vision.
The Five-Fifty Vision advocate that the Tibetan people will regain their freedom and dignity and that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will return to Tibet. This Vision motivates and shapes all of our activities.
The Five-Fifty Vision calls for resolving the issue of Tibet and Tibet’s political future in the next five years. We will strive to achieve this result in accordance with the Middle Way Approach. At the same time, we will devote substantial attention and resources to sustaining and strengthening the resilience of the Tibetan people inside and outside of Tibet, the Tibetan freedom struggle, and the Tibetan culture and identity for the next fifty years if need be.
The forum will be held from 16 to19 August 2019 in Dharamshala.
Selection process:
Interested participants will have to fill the online application form before the deadline.
Click here for the application form.
The same link also has provision to upload their resume. The deadline for submission of the application is May 17, 2019, by 5 pm.
A selection committee will review the application and shortlist candidates.
Preference will be given to candidates with remarkable achievements, community leadership experience, and new participants.
DIIR will incur your travel and logistical costs.
The final selected candidates will receive an invitation by May 24, 2019.
The breakdown of the participants is as follows:
20 from India-based participants
5 from Nepal/Bhutan based participants
10 from North America based participants
10 from Europe based participants
5 from Austroasia (Australia /New Zealand /Japan/ Taiwan) based participants
50 seats will be open
Deadlines:
Submission of application: May 17, 2019, by 5 pm
Intimation of selected participants: May 24, 2019
Email: diirfivefifty@tibet.net