American Center

Institute for Political and Civic Engagement (iPACE)

2013 Application
Application Instructions:
Please submit the completed application by midnight, May 24th, 2013. You may deliver the
completed application to the American Center guard booth, attention iPACE Program, or via
email to iPACE@state.gov

iPACE

Program

iPACE@state.gov

You may complete the application in English or Myanmar language.

Institute for Political and Civic Engagement (iPACE)

Please type or handwrite clearly in pen.
(Zawgyi- One )

Section 1 Background Information

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1. Full Name:
( )

2. Current Address (Street, City, Division/ State):

( - )

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3. Email Address:

4. Telephone:

()

( )

6. Date of Birth (day/

month/ year):

6. Organization:
(

(- )

5. Sex (M/ F):

(- )

7. Job Title:
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8. Ethnicity:

9. Religion:

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10. Please indicate your current position level in your organization using the following scale.

Volunteer

Entry Level

Technical Staff

Middle
Management

Senior Management

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Section 2 Professional and Volunteer Experience

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What work or activities, both paid and volunteer, are you doing now or have you done in the
past? Please fill out the table below in the order of your most recent experiences first.


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12a. Professional Experience (Paid)

Organization
Job Title
Activities/
Location
Work
You
Do

12b. Volunteer Experience (Unpaid)

Organization
Job Title
Activities/
Location
Work
You
Do

Start:mm/yy
End: mm/yy

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Start: mm/yy
End: mm/yy

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Section 3 Essay Section

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Please write a one or two paragraph response for each of the following questions. Please
write in complete sentences and be sure to provide all of the requested information and
details. You may write on the back of this page if necessary.

13. Please give an example of a time you led an activity to change something in your
organization or community.
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14a. Please an example of something you want your organization or political party to do in
2014 to help the transition process?
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14b. Explain how this activity will help the transition.

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15. Please describe the different roles of government, business and civil society in the
country.
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16. What will you do to contribute to the countrys transition?

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17a. In your opinion, what is one of the most important needs of the country during the
transition period?
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17b. Why is this need important?

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Section 4 Class Selection

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Please mark up to two classes you would like to take and based on your own schedule, in
order of priority (1 = 1st priority, 2 = 2nd priority).

(- = =
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Term 3: July 22 September 28, 2013

Class: Conflict Transformation
Section A:
Monday, Wednesday & Friday,
5 - 7 pm
Section B:
Tuesday & Thursday, 4 - 7 pm
Class: Advocacy in Democracy
Section A:
Wednesday & Friday, 1 - 4 pm

Class: English for Special Purposes

Monday & Wednesday, 1 4 pm
Class: Federalism
Tuesday & Saturday, 1 - 4 pm
Class: Transparency
Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
5 - 7 pm

Section B:
Tuesday & Saturday, 9 - 12 pm

Section 5 Certification
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Certification: I certify that I completed this application personally and that the information
contained therein is factual and accurate.
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Signature:

Date:

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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Term 3
Conflict Transformation: This class will examine issues of peace building and reconciliation,
human rights with an emphasis on the rights of minority groups, women, and persons with
disabilities, religious tolerance. It will focus on legal frameworks as well as community-driven
activities to promote tangible peace building.
(Conflict Transformation)
(reconciliation)

Advocacy in Democracy: This class will focus on various aspects of advocacy in a democratic
system, including understanding advocacy, messaging for change, coalition building, and public
opinion research.

Advocacy

(Advocacy

Advocacy

in

Democracy)

Advocacy

English for Special Purposes: This class will assist students to communicate about federalism
and decentralization in English. The class will help develop students English vocabulary and
communication abilities around these issues.

(English for Special Purposes)

Federalism: This class will focus on federalism and decentralization, with Indonesia and the
United States as case studies. Particular emphasis will be placed on looking at issues of
federalism and decentralization in a transition and in the Burmese context.
(Federalism)
(case study)
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Transparency: This class will examine several aspects of transparency in a theoretical and
practical approach. It will address conceptual understandings of transparency in the
development and governance context; explore priority areas for reform in Myanmar; and
examine possible tools to address issues of transparency in Myanmar.
(Transparency)

(Tools)

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