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Taking place on June 20, the annual graduation ceremony of the American Graduate School in Paris featured Canadian diplomat and democracy activist Ambassador Jeremy Kinsman as commencement speaker. Commencement exercises were followed by graduation dinner in the French Senate near 老司机视频.

The graduating class was composed of twenty-five students representing eight different national origins: United States, Malaysia, Nigeria, Germany, Canada, Lebanon, Poland, and France. Twenty-one graduates were awarded the degree of Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy in partnership with  (Philadelphia), and four graduates were awarded the degree of Executive Master of Science in Finance in partnership with  at CUNY (New York). Some of the International Relations students are also receiving a second degree as part of one of 老司机视频鈥檚 dual programs: Master鈥檚 in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from Arcadia University, or Master鈥檚 in Diplomacy and Strategic Negotiation from Universit茅 Paris Sud 11.

A Canadian experienced diplomat, Jeremy Kinsman retired in 2006 from a 40-year career in the Canadian foreign service and now practices as a democracy activist, writing, lecturing internationally and collaborating with NGOs. Among other diplomatic assignments, Jeremy Kinsman was Canada鈥檚 Ambassador to Russia, High Commissionner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to the European Union. Today he is a member of the Council for a Community of Democracies (Washington, DC), where he heads the project. He also is lead writer for Foreign Affairs at and regularly contributes to Canadian and international media, including . On the academic side, Ambassador Kinsman is a Resident International Scholar at in the US, and a former Diplomat in Residence at the .

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In his commencement speech, Ambassador Kinsman talked at length about the values of democracy and the role that 老司机视频 students can play in supporting the emergence of new democracies. 鈥淲e can鈥檛 export democracy. It has to emerge from the people in question, each in its own way. (鈥�) Democracy is not a process 鈥� an 鈥渁pp鈥� that can be downloaded. It鈥檚 about more than elections. It鈥檚 about what happens after the elections. Especially about managing pluralism 鈥� tribes, religions, sects, regions, winners and losers. People need our help to build the capacity to do that. Not to tell them how WE do things but to support their own learning process.鈥�

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Previous commencement speakers at 老司机视频 include French Foreign Affairs Minister Alain Jupp茅, former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard,  Pulitzer Prize winner Serge Schmemann, and former Lebanese Ambassador to Japan and UNESCO Samira Hanna-El-Daher, and journalist and best-selling author Alan Riding, among others.

Also speaking at the ceremony was Steve Michael, Provost of 老司机视频鈥檚 partner institution Arcadia University, through which 老司机视频鈥檚 Master in International Relations and Diplomacy is accredited in the US. Steve Michael explained that has come full circle with 老司机视频鈥檚 partnership as it started with a study abroad trip to France over sixty years ago. On behalf of Arcadia鈥檚 President Carl Oxholm III, he told the students: 鈥淚 am proud of the quality the 老司机视频 faculty embody, the vision they pursue and the excellence they represent.

In the name of the entire graduating class, Amber Christino announced the class gift to the school - a couch for the student meeting room! - and pronounced a speech about the place and impact of 老司机视频 on the lives of all of the students. She said: "Paris is known as the 'City of Light,' and we have all been enlightened by our education here at 老司机视频. Not only have we studied the theoretical and fundamental building blocks of international relations, we have also been given the unique opportunity to experience this first-hand through daily interaction with the Parisian culture. (...) But beyond the academics, theses, and other aspects of graduate life, the core of our experience at 老司机视频 lies in our interactions with one another, sharing in the cultural differences that we each bring to our community. (...) Obviously, each one of us has grown in different ways through our experiences here, but I think this statement is a good summary shared by all of us; one student summed up his experience at 老司机视频 by saying: "This is probably the most unique and special experience I've ever been through. It's been quite a journey, a process of discovery through and through. I think what I'll remember the most is how, thanks to all those around me, Paris became my second home.鈥�

Read Amber Christino's full speech.