Aleksa Dabic (21) from Banja Luka participated in an international competition for young leaders in Dubai, where he represented Republika Srpska (RS) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and brought home the award for the best young leader in the world.
Dabic is a second-year student at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Banja Luka, and as he said in an interview, at the recently held competition titled “Best Diplomats Conference”, held under the patronage of the United Nations (UN) and intended only for young leaders up to 35 years old, he had the opportunity to participate in simulations of global negotiations.
He won this award among thousands of participants who wanted to become young leaders.
“I had the opportunity and honor to represent RS, that is BiH, on the world’s largest platform for the development of young leaders. There were more than 5.000 registered participants, and I was selected to be one of them, in order to represent the interests of my country before the international community through concrete diplomatic work, negotiations, and decision-making,” Dabic explained.
He explains that during the competition they went through different trainings, in order to reduce the number of participants as much as possible, down to the selected ones who would be the most effective.
“The event lasted three to four days, and the competitive part one day. Before that, we spent the whole day divided into teams, which we ourselves selected and recognized, in order to have the same vision and defend our position with amendments. As a team, we were second in the world,” Dabic explains.
As he says, the next day, when awards and recognitions were handed out – which are divided into seven categories, with only one of those categories having four awards – he received the individual award for the best young leader in the world.
He adds that he has already been involved in the youth sector for three to four years, where, he emphasizes, he gained most of his knowledge and led certain organizations.
“After that, I left this sector, and now I work on individual projects. In March, I was in Brazil at the World Climate Summit, so everything was connected with this competition in Dubai and brought additional points,” said Dabic.
He emphasizes that everyone is more than satisfied with this major recognition – his parents, family, and friends, as well as professors who were familiar with this program. “Besides that, I was selected for the Balkan youth leaders, through a project held in the United States (U.S.). It is a program that lasts a month and a half and includes traveling through Central America, with work on a topic they will assign. After that, I’m coming to Banja Luka in October, where I’ll stay only seven days, and then we’re going to Kenya, where we are preparing the World Conference for Presidents because we wanted the African continent to be included in that program,” said this young man from Banja Luka about his plans for the coming period.
