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Short Bio
Marios Antoniou collaborated with Future Worlds Center from his role as member of the Youth Promoting Peace group. Marios was the youngest member of a group of teenagers who managed to organize over 40 large public events between 1999-2003 breaking the ice and mobilizing thousands of citizens to work towards peace. Even though he was the youngest, the group elected him President, a position that he hold for the whole time he was in Cyprus. Up[on graduating high school and completing his army, he studied a few years as a teacher and then he moved on to the US.
Marios holds a Masters in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina and a BA in Science of Education from the University of Cyprus. He also holds a diploma in Conflict Resolution and International Development from the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center.
In 2007, he worked as a communications and events officer at the NGO Support Center, on a UNDP/UNOPS - USAID funded bi-communal peace building project on strengthening the Cyprus Civil Society.