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From April 27th to May 1st, Machik convened the first ever US-based Tibetan Education and Language Policy Symposium. The Symposium was hosted through the Tibet Sustainable Governance Program at the University of Virginia. Never before have such leading pioneers and innovators of Tibetan education and language policy been convened at an international conference, along with high-level researchers from Beijing affiliated with the Chinese State Council. 
The exchange that took place included but transcended academic knowledge and research on the urgent issue of Tibetan language education and treated bilingualism as a key issue across the Tibetan region. Through the formal two-day conference at the University of Virginia, a one-day retreat deep in a forest of Marshall, VA, and site visits of educational institutions in the DC area (including a guided tour of Sidwell Friends School, one of our Machik partners, and National Geographic Society), the symposium created an unprecedented occasion to build common understanding and a sense of shared stakes in progressive change for the Tibetan Plateau. All the participants - especially the Chinese and the Tibetans - left the symposium with a greater commitment to advancing Tibetan language education in the interest of sustainable peace and reconciliation.
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