4 October 2007

Invited by the University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba and the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association as organizers of the 19^th biennial international conference on Ethnicity, Public Policy and Minority Inclusion, F. Tony Bislimi traveled to Canada on 26 September to serve as an international panellist for the Good Governance and Minority Inclusion plenary session of the conference.

Besides serving as an international panellist, Bislimi led a delegation of Kosovar presenters (from the TBG Foundation) at the conference, who presented a paper on religion in Kosova.

During his participation in CESA’s conference, Bislimi had the opportunity to meet with several other participants, lecturers, and panellists with whom he discussed his Education for Peace Scholarships Program and the possibility of its enlargement to include Canadian universities.

Bislimi hopes to continue talks with several universities in Canada in an effort to get them to join Texas Lutheran University in providing scholarships for deserving Kosovars through the EFP Scholarships Program.

On this trip, Tony Bislimi was accompanied by Ms Nora Dauti, Vice-President, Ms Dafina Bislimi, Scholarships Program Coordinator, and Mr Arden Abazi, Program Officer for Education, of the TBG Foundation.