Past Events

June 1, 2008

Conduct a Joint Research Project (JRP) with cadets and midshipmen from the Service Academies in Amman, Jordan to explore the impact of the war in Iraq on Jordanian civil society.

Purposes of the research project are:

  • Bring students, cadets, and midshipmen together to build a comprehensive understanding civil-military perspectives issues on national policy by comparing and contrasting perspectives.
  • Gain personal understanding of the impacts of US foreign policy on local populations.
  • Develop lasting relationships between the team members and with the people visited to create alternative mechanisms for dialogue and conflict resolution.
May 12, 2008

FA HUM 08 is a USSOUTHCOM/Salvadoran Ministry of Defense-sponsored, regionally-oriented disaster relief exercise, involving military and civilian agencies from the Western Hemisphere. The exercise enhances military-to-military, military-to-civilian, and civilian-to-civilian contacts between participating organizations and promotes regional cooperative engagement.

April 29, 2008

IGL INSPIRE Fellow Gregg Nakano, Tufts Professor Paul Joseph, George Kosar (Associate Director of
Tufts' Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations), and IGL Director Sherman Teichman traveled to
Washington, D.C, Carlisle, PA, and Annapolis, MD to: develop and strengthen relationships in the ALLIES

April 11, 2008

This symposium, spearheaded by ALLIES senior Leah Averitt, served as an academic discourse into determining how certain aspects of the Sino-US relationship will evolve in the years to come and what implications these will have in the future. This one-day symposium was comprised of panel discussions, small discussion groups, and a keynote address.

February 3, 2008

ALLIES leadership briefs representatives from United States Naval Academy Department of Humanities and Social Science, USAID/OMA, Interaction, Reserve Officers Association, United States Institute of Peace (USIP), DoS S/CRS, and GMU/POPP Civil Affairs conference.   As a result of the meetings:

January 9, 2008

ALLIES leadership met with representatives from OSD Stability Operations, USAID Office of Military Affairs (OMA), DoS Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS), House Armed Services Committee, New America Foundation and Institute for Defense Analyses.

December 1, 2007

At the end of the first semester, ALLIES co-sponsored an all day symposium with the Tufts Democrats. The symposium, “The Future of U.S. Civil-Military Relations,” examined civil-military relations from a non-partisan point of view. Dr. Mackubin Owens, professor at the Naval War College, and Dr.

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December 1, 2007
Cabot 205 | Tufts University Campus | (All day)-(All day)

An Issues of the Future symposium

11:00-12:00: What is the Role of the Military in a Democracy?
Dr. Harvey Sapolsky- Prof. at MIT and Dr. Mac Owens- Prof. at Naval War College

November 8, 2007

This fall, ALLIES held its first-ever Intellectual Roundtable. Participants drawn from the military, US government, civil society, and academia grappled for a day and a half with the needs for civil-military education to create the agile, inter-agency leaders required to integrate all aspects of US foreign policy—development, diplomacy, and defense—for the future.

October 31, 2007

ALLIES members Leah Averitt (08) and Chas Morrison (11) attended the 59th annual Student Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA) at West Point. The year’s theme was “Uncertain Future: Freedom, Security, and Responsibility.” SCUSA brings together students from over 100 colleges to discuss the salient issues of United States foreign policy.

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