Alistair Campbell

In November 2008, Alistair Campbell travelled around Iraq talking with people from many different tribal, ethnic and religious groups. He was there to assess the viability of a project he is initiating which involves starting a national schools debating league in Iraq, with view of taking the first ever Iraqi team to World Schools Debating Championships to be held in Qatar in 2010. His involvement with Iraq started when he was an organiser and a facilitator of the Youth Initiative for Progress in Iraq conference held in Jordan in July 2008; the conference was the first and only youth policy conference held specifically for Iraqi youth to discuss development issues and the conflict.