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Clearly the topic of democracy resonated with many students around the world. The contest received more entries this year than ever before, with representation from schools in 65 countries.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) March 14, 2019
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is pleased to announce the winners of its 2018 International Student Essay Contest.
ESSAY TOPIC: Is it important to live in a democracy?
Students approached this topic in different ways. They weighed current and historical cases. They applied and critiqued political, moral, and economic theories. They considered the protections, inefficiencies, opportunities, and inequities associated with democracy in practice. And they related their lived experiences to fundamental questions about the way societies ought to be governed.
Thanks to all who submitted essays. The contest received more entries this year than ever before, with representation from schools in 65 countries: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China (including Hong Kong), Colombia, Comoros, Croatia, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
Read all the winning essays here:https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/news/announcements/2019-03-12-carnegie-council-announces-winners-of-2018-international-student-essay-contest
And the winners are:
High School Category
First Prize
Democracy: The Keystone of our Society
You Young Kim, Seoul International School, South Korea
Joint Second Prize
Living in an "Illiberal Democracy"
Gergely Bérces, Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Kéttannyelvű Baptista Gimnázium, Hungary
Joint Second Prize
Democracy: Freedom with a Caveat
Gage Garcia, Los Altos High School, USA
Third Prize
Why Democracy is the Best We've Got
Alexandra Mork, Harvard-Westlake School, USA
Undergraduate Category
First Prize
Vote Democracy!
Claudia Meng, Yale University, USA
Second Prize
What the Tunisian Revolution Taught Me about Democracy
Aziz Ben Hadj Yahia, Tunis Business School, Tunisia
Third Prize
Democracy is What We Choose and Uphold
Mariana Isabel Sierra Estrada, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia
Graduate Category
Joint First Prize
Democracy in Ghana
Wutor Mahama Baleng, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Joint First Prize
The "Dirty War" and the History of Democracy in Argentina
Lena Muldoon, Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina
Honorable Mentions
Merry Christmas, Democracy!
Jinyoung Kim, The King's School, Australia
Is it Important to Live in a Democracy?
Murat Bakeev, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
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