Jeeshan Chowdhury's Sauvé Scholars Project Summary:  Building a Technology Startup to Improve Healthcare: Applying Academic Research in the Market

Stéphanie Jensen-Cormier's Sauvé Project Summary: Influencing Canada's Climate Change Policy by Informing Canadians about China's New Energy Sources and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategies 

Yimin Jiang's Sauvé Project Summary: The Keystone Pipeline: A Case Study in Governmental Decision-Making

The Review of Obama Administration’s First 100 Days

The Future of U.S. Anti-Terrorism Strategy

Can U.S. Really Accept an African American President?

The implication of Iraq War for China.  

Why Obama turns a hard stance against China?

Ethan Kay's Sauvé Project Summary: Smokeless Cookstoves and Self-Adjustable Eyewear: Commercializing Technologies to Radically Change Lives in Developing Markets

Simangele Mabena's Sauvé Project Summary: Playing for Change: Including the Performing Arts in Teaching Life Skills to Deaf Adolescents

 Maria Moreno's Sauvé Project Summary: The Challenge for our Generation: Saving the Guarani Aquifer System

 Esmael Njuguna's Sauvé Project Summary: Enhancing Impact Kenya Youth Initiative's Capacity to Solve the Socio-Economic Challenges Facing Kenyan Youth

 Paul Omonge's Sauvé Project Summary: Environmental Leadership: Engaging Young Kenyans in Building their Future

 Sadia Rafiquddin's Sauvé Project Summary : Highlighting Human Rights Issues in Canada and the World: The Video Interview as a Medium for Social Change

Mohammed Shaban's Sauvé Project Summary: Peace Education in Palestine: Rebuilding a Nation, Reforming Communities and Remaking Lives

 Charlotte Sobolewski's Sauvé Project Summary: Turning MTV on its Head: Using Fast, Simple, Smart Media to Re-engage Youth in the Issues that Matter

Joshua Monk Vanwyck's Sauvé Project Summary: Small is Beautiful: Supporting the Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability of Small Canadian Communities through Better Practice Sharing and Citizenship Participation

Dechen Wangmo's Sauvé Project Summary: Media and Democracy in Bhutan: The Role of Public Service Broadcasting

Alia Whitney-Johnson's Sauvé Project Summary:  Beads to Business: Scaling a Model that Transforms Girls' Shelters into Entrepreneurship Hubs

Links:

On February 18th 2011, the Globe and Mail published an Op Ed piece co-written by Kyle calling for the creation of a network of Canadian expatriates to advance Canada's economic interests abroad.

PROJECT:

An overview of the content and historical context of the international freshwater agreements that South Africa has entered into with neighbouring countries

PUBLICATION:

The TWO Analysis – Introducing a Methodology for the Transboundary Waters Opportunity Analysis.The report details an analytical framework for effectively developing transboundary water resources in a responsible manner and outlines an approach by which transboundary water stakeholders can collaborate on the equitable and sustainable use of their jointly held freshwater resources.

PROJECT:

Youth Environmental Activists Network for Africa (YEANA) addresses the knowledge gap regarding climate change by training college students on climate change and ultimately establishing Green Clubs at universities throughout Africa.

PUBLICATIONS:

Mainstreaming Human Rights into Anti-Corruption: A Strategy for Protecting Vulnerable Groups in Nigeria from Double Jeopardy.

A Synopsis: Rights, Responsibilities and Roles of Human Rights NGOs under International Law.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Report on Cadieux-Léger Fellowship 2007-2008.


• Obstacles to realising Guiding Principle 29 in Afghanistan Restoring property to displaced Afghans is a formidable challenge. Given the prevalence of landlessness, overlapping claims and inequitable property distribution, focusing solely on restoring land to its ‘original owners’ is unlikely to meet the needs of IDPs, returnees and their neighbours.

PROJECT:

Networking the Gap is a unique peace project. It aims to develop workshops that will bring together journalists coming from conflict-affected areas. However, participants will not be war correspondents but journalists who cover culture, lifestyle, health and other non-conflict related matters. The project has been adopted by The Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation (CIIAN)  which will serve as its institutional home.

PROJECT: 


Public equity is an innovative corporate ownership model that puts the profits of consumer goods companies into the service of under-funded social agendas. The first venture to test the model is Moniker, Inc., a rapidly growing online luxury menswear studio that Christopher launched shortly after completing the Sauvé program.

PUBLICATIONS:

“Expertise in Parliament: How to Improve the Effectiveness of Members”, in, Thomas Axworthy, Everything old is New Again: Observations on Parliamentary Reform, Centre for the Study of Democracy Research Papers. April 2008.

“From Here to Real Action Worldwide: Engaging Canada in Democratic Development”. Diplomat & International Canada. March-April 2008. P 21-24.

“The Evaluation of Democracy Assistance: How to Ensure Effective Programming”, and, “Evaluating Democratic Transitions: A New Role for Canada in Democracy Assistance”, in Creating Democratic Value: Evaluating Efforts to Promote Democracy Abroad. Centre for the Study of Democracy and Foreign Affairs Canada. March 2008.

Thomas S. Axworthy, Leslie Campbell and David Donovan. The Democracy Canada Institute: A Blueprint. Institute for Research on Public Policy. (Originally published May 2005 with ongoing research and commentary through 2008).

Publication

What is your legacy? An open letter to the Baby Boomer generation.
By Jon McIntosh, Sauvé Scholar (2007-2008)
What is your legacy, baby-boomer? If you are reading this email, you are one of the most privileged human beings on the planet – you are endowed with great talent, opportunity and power. It is said that with great privilege comes great responsibility. Are you leaving the world in a better state than you found it?
Published in Corporate Knights, The Canadian Magazine for corporate responsibility, 2009 Responsible Investing Issue (Web exclusive)

PUBLICATION:

On January 19, 2009, Kirsten launched her book Van Rotterdam naar het Witte Huis In het hart van Obama’s campagne (Sorry, available only in Dutch), about her experiences working with the Democratic National Committee at the heart of the Obama campaign.

PROJECTS:

Directed, filmed and edited "Transition & Leadership": A McConnell Foundation film on Santropol Roulant

Filmed and edited a video record of the year as a Sauvé Scholar for publication on the Sauvé website including virtual tour of Sauvé House

Developed feature length film script and completed preparations for filming in Egypt

PUBLICATION:

Her senior thesis paper “Inaction as Action: South Africa’s Political Culture of Protest and the Declining Voter Turnout” was published in the Spring 2007 Issue of The Michigan Journal of Political Science.

 PUBLICATIONS:

"The Role of Young People in Conflict Prevention & Peace Building: A Case Study of Nepal" in Young People, Education, and Sustainable Development: Exploring Principles, Perspectives, and Praxis, edited by Philip Osano & Peter Blaze Corcoran (April 2009);

"Understanding Maoists Insurgency: Context, Cost & Consequences" in Changing Contours of Global Conflicts, Costs and Prospects of Peace, edited by Dr. Seema Shekhawat and Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra (2008); 

"Ministry of Peace & Reconstruction: A Foundation for Peace" in Joint Action for Prevention: Civil Society & Government Cooperation on Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding, edited by Paul Van Tongeren & Christine van Empel (2007);

Institutional Approaches to Gender Policies in Post Conflict Reconstruction – A Case Study of World Bank (2006);

“Back to Negotiations: Diagnosis & Prognosis of Future Negotiation Process of Nepal” in EPU Research Paper Series (2006);

“Understanding Maoists Insurgency from Wider Perspective” in GDN Research Paper Series (2005).

PUBLICATION:

Exposure to European Union Policies and Support for Membership in the Candidate Countries, September 2007 issue of the Political Research Quarterly

PUBLICATIONS:

“Young People, Education and Sustainable Development: Exploring the Principles, Perspectives and Praxis”, Edited by: Peter Blaze Corcoran and Philip Molo Osano. A global perspective on education initiatives by and for young people that promote a transition to sustainability. It includes 38 essays co-authored by 68 contributors from 25 nations, representing a diversity of geography, gender, and generation. Published on Earth Day - 22 April - 2009 -.

McGill InFocus Magazine (Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Edition), Fall, 2007.A Student’s Perspective: Sustaining the Future

McGill Tribune "Seeds of Change sow lasting impressions".


PUBLICATION:

‘A Price Too High: The cost of Australia’s approach to Asylum Seekers’ for Oxfam and A Just Australia (co-author).

PUBLICATIONS:

(co-author with Tasha Kheiriddin) Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution.

(in collaboration with Peter G. White) Gritlock: Are the Liberals in Forever?

PUBLICATION:

(McGill Reporter) First person: The Sauvé experience.

PROJECT:

Co-founder of Apathy Is Boring, a non-partisan organization that uses sarcasm, media, art and technology to engage youth in Canadian politics.

Publication

Annette Lu: Strong People are Easy Targets
By Sherry Lee for Commonwealth Magazine
No matter how the power struggle for the presidential ticket in the 2008 election ends, Lu’s confidence and her estimation of her position will not be affected - she belongs to the world.