Do You Know that:

If you work on an issue of international importance, travel on an international service project, host people from other countries in your home, workplace, school or community; Have a passport…Then you are a citizen diplomat?

The foreign affairs ministry or state department are not the only organizations involved in the world of diplomacy. There are many ways individuals can become a part of the very interesting world of international relations as well.

Citizen Diplomacy is the concept that the individual has the right to help shape foreign policy in conjunction with other private citizens. Citizen diplomats can be students, teachers, athletes, artists, business people, humanitarians, adventurers or tourists. They are motivated by a desire to engage with the rest of the world in a meaningful, mutually beneficial way.

Global Ties & Bimodular have now partnered to make this possible.

Global Ties USA (www.globaltiesus.org), a 55 year old, Washington DC based Non Profit Partner of the U.S Department Of State (DOS), in conjunction with Bimodular Consulting (www.bimodular.com), her Nigerian Program Partner organizes series of Citizen Diplomacy & Knowledge Exchange (CDKE) programs for foreigners in different American cities, aimed at strengthening relationships between the United States and citizens of friendly nations, especially Nigeria.

These citizen diplomats- emerging leaders drawn from the organized private sector, civil society, government, politics and academia, are brought into the United States to share ideas and knowledge, to develop capacity while increasing mutual understanding and cooperation between peoples and institutions of both countries.

The GLOBAL TIES/BIMODULAR CDKE Program calls for participants for her international capacity building program for real estate professionals with the theme:
Real Estate Development & Infrastructure Financing For Africa’s Largest Economy:
Engaging with Major US Real Estate Stakeholders & Financiers.

This event is scheduled for Dallas Fortwort, Texas from 13th - 19th December, 2015.

The purpose of the program is to exchange knowledge about the real estate development, management, and financing markets and build partnerships between U.S. and Nigerian professionals in the industry. Through such exchange, Nigerian professionals will be able to share their best practices and challenges with their American counterparts, while the Americans will likewise be able to discuss and share trends in the U.S. market, all leading to possible future collaboration between Nigerians and Americans.

The overall program will consist of a series of professional & cultural activities carefully designed and integrated with each other, to ensure maximum exposure to the program topic and American culture and society as planned by Global Ties.


ABOUT GLOBAL TIES
For over 50years, Global Ties US, as a Citizen Diplomacy organization, working closely with the United States Government has been strengthening relationships between the US and other nations of the world. Formerly known as the National Council for International Visitors (NCIIV), GLOBAL TIES US is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1961 to promote excellence in citizen diplomacy.

Global Ties U.S. members include individuals, program agencies, and more than 90 community organizations throughout the United States. Members design and implement professional programs, provide cultural activities, and offer home hospitality opportunities for foreign leaders, specialists, and international scholars participating in the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program and other exchange programs.

ABOUT EVENT

A CITIZEN DIPLOMACY AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM FORNIGERIA
Real Estate Development and Infrastructure Financing for Africa's Largest Economy: Engaging with major U.S.Real Estate Stakeholders and Financiers

Sunday, December 13 – Saturday, December 19, 2015

Global Ties U.S., a 50 year old nonprofit international exchange organization in the United States, proposes a one-week, U.S.-based exchange project for 10-20 Nigerian real estate experts, policy-makers, financiers, and other professional. The purpose of the program is to exchange knowledge about the real estate development, management, and financing markets and build partnerships between U.S. and Nigerian professionals in the industry. Through such exchange, Nigerian professionals will be able to share their best practices and challenges with their American counterparts, while the Americans will likewise be able to discuss and share trends in the U.S. market, all leading to possible future collaboration between Nigerians and Americans. Specific Project objectives are:

• To examine U.S. policies, best practices, and challenges in the real estate development and property management markets, and share Nigerian experiences in the same;

• To examine and discuss some of the major innovations and current trends in real estate development, infrastructure development, real estate management, and financing;

• To discuss the Nigerian real estate investment and property management markets and engage with potential business partners, funders, and consumers in the United States;

• To discuss and develop partnership between U.S. and Nigerian real estate developers, managers, financiers, and other stakeholders so as to increase mutual collaboration in the future; and,

• To help promote citizen diplomacy and increase mutual understanding and collaboration among the United States and Nigeria, resulting in a more peaceful and prosperous world.

INTENDING PARTICIPANTS WITHOUT VISAS WILL BE ASSISTED TO PROCURE B1/B2 or J1/J2.
REGISTRATION FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE EVENT CLOSES OCT 31, 2015

More information can be gotten from

www.bimodular.com/about-upcoming-event

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