February 20, 2007
FNF Alumni Group Welcomes New Members,
Plans Activities
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| FNF Resident Representative
Siegfried Herzog leads the Alumni group in a planning session. |
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) Alumni Group welcomed the new
International Academy
for Leadership (IAF) scholars into its network with the launch
of the Group’s 2007 directory on 20 February 2007 at the Foundation’s
office in Makati City.
After the directory launch, FNF Resident Representative Siegfried
Herzog led the Group in a planning session to determine its activities
for the year. The alumni agreed that the Group should continue
to serve as a network for the exchange of ideas
and the promotion of liberalism through sponsored seminars, especially
those that replicate the IAF trainings. Topics
of concern were: education, strengthening democratic institutions,
electoral reforms, freedom of the press, citizen’s participation
and the environment. To realize the Group’s plans, it elected
a coordinating team composed of Clare Amador (New Public Management
2006), Anne Elicaño (Human Rights and Liberalism 2006)
and Odette Padilla (Conference on Human Rights 1991).
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| The Alumni Group decides on
its activities. |
“The FNF Alumni Group should
go beyond being a
regular network of individuals who share a common thread
of scholarship,” said Clare Amador. “The training
and the relationships formed during the seminars do not stop at
the IAF. It is
only the beginning,” she
added. “The challenge would be in concretizing that opportunity
and turning it into a collective effort. In this sense, we
build
a community of learning and camaraderie.”
“We like to stay in touch because we send people as part
of a liberal partnership process, and it does
not end when they come back," said Siegfried Herzog regarding
the launch of the yearly directory and the activities of the Alumni
Group. “It is meant to strengthen the liberal family,”
he added. “We therefore invite them from time-to-time to
continue this partnership process and enable them to meet and
interact with people who have had a similar experience.”
