High Resolves
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| Founded | 2005 Australia |
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| Type | Nonprofit INGO |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
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| Services | Youth empowerment |
Co founders | Mehrdad Baghai, Roya Baghai |
| Website | HighResolves.org |
High Resolves (or the High Resolves Initiative) is an International non-governmental organization for young people.[1] The aim of High Resolves programs are to educate high-school aged students in the meaning of being a global citizen.[2][clarification needed] High Resolves programs emerged from simulations developed by co-founder Mehrdad Baghai and Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling at Harvard University.[3]
High Resolves was founded in 2005 by Mehrdad Baghai author of The Alchemy of Growth[4] and his wife Roya.[3] High Resolves started as an experiment in Baghai's son's school in Sydney, Australia, and had expanded to at least 350 Australian schools by 2018,[3] having engaged more than 200,000 Australian students since its inception.[5]
In 2014 the Australian Council for Educational Research conducted an independent evaluation of the programs and found:[1] "High Resolves is meeting its intended purposes, namely it is effectively engaging and helping to empower young Australians to take part and be active in their communities".
Program
Collective Action: a series of High Resolves programs for students, which teach personal decision-making skills and encourage critical thinking about social change.[6]
Collective Identity: an investigation of cosmopolitanism.[7][8]
Justice: an exploration of fairness, especially in the distribution of wealth and poverty.[7]
Awards and honours
Author and venture capital entrepreneur Mehrdad Baghai, a member of the Initiative, was short-listed as a finalist for the first Aspen Institute, John P. McNulty Prize in 2008,[9] and ultimately was the winner of the award in 2018, the prize's eleventh year, citing extraordinary leadership.[3][5][10]
High Resolves won the 2015 Patrons Prize in the national Good Design Awards.[11]
Videos for Change Challenge
High Resolves created Videos for Change in 2015[12] to help students to take action and feel empowered to create change in the world.[13]
The challenge is for young people from high school years 7 to 12 to create a one-minute video on a social issue they feel passionate about. Past participants have covered issues such as social inclusion, racism, domestic violence, gender equality, LGBTQI rights, and bullying.[14]