ACCESS

ACCESS is a joint mentorship program between the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University and the Project on Justice in Times of Transition (PJTT) that combines our respective resources to mentor and foster a new generation of leaders in international diplomacy prepared to engage in today’s interdependent world with humility, sophistication, and an understanding of the complexities of the world today.

Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES)

The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations. Through joint education, research, and training, ALLIES provides military and civilian students and professionals alike the opportunity to explore significant topics, events and policy while developing relationships that will last a lifetime.

Alumni Program

As an alumni, what is your story?

How has your experience with IGL enriched your global perspective? Why can this increased awareness benefit others? How can you assist today’s inquisitive youth to grow into tomorrow’s innovators for holistic solutions?

As part of the IGL family, you dare to motivate others towards active global citizenship by example. Your empathetic and collaborative approach to today’s complex issues is a valuable asset, and the IGL needs your support as we mentor youth who, just like you, are passionate about acting as global citizens.

Boryana Damyanova Award for Corporate Social Responsibility

This annual Award is given in honor of EPIIC's wonderful student Boryana Damyanova of Bulgaria (1983-2005), whose passion and professional aspirations centered around the complex issues of capitalism, integrity, and corporate citizenship and accountability. Boryana Damyanova was an international student at Tufts University from Sofia, Bulgaria. Born and raised in Bulgaria, she studied at the Sofia Math School for two years prior to attending The American College of Sofia - a private high school, a hybrid of Bulgarian and American educational systems.

BrandHaiti

BrandHaiti is a student led non-profit business marketing organization that re-brands Haiti’s negative image through highlighting the country’s strengths and comparative advantages to foster pro-Haitian business investment and revitalize a non-exploitative economy. By partnering with multinational enterprises, BrandHaiti advertizes for local Haitian companies to increase consumer demand for “made in Haiti” products and facilitate long-term investment.

Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD)

China-US Symposium

Thank you to all who made the 5th Annual Tufts China-US Symposium a stellar sucess!

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Discourse

Discourse provides an inclusive platform for reasoned discussion and prescriptive analysis of issues of both international and domestic concern, while also including poetry, fiction, art and photography to illuminate the human condition. Its emphasis is on exploring a diversity of thought and perspectives from students, scholars, and practitioners. The purpose of Discourse is to provide an open forum for discussion of contemporary dilemmas, not as a vehicle with any specific political or intellectual agenda.

Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award/Series

The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was established in 1993 to honor Jean Mayer, by challenging and inspiring our students and the community, by bringing to Tufts distinguished scholars and practitioners whose moral courage, personal integrity, and passion for scholarship resonated his dictum that:

"Scholarship, research and teaching must be dedicated to solving the most pressing problems facing the world."

Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship

The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship educates, mentors, guides and motivates aspiring social entrepreneurs. Empower is a program for Tufts University undergraduate and graduate students to engage in practical, experiential learning for social entrepreneurship.

We help students develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to pursue entrepreneurial ventures with a social perspective — with a particular focus on poverty alleviation.

Engineers Without Borders (EWB)

For the most up to date information, please visit our external website Engineers Without Borders

A collaboration with the School of Engineering, the mission of the Tufts Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is to design sustainable development projects for communities around the world and to engage students, faculty and the campus in the process. The group has worked on projects in Tibet, Ecuador, and El Salvador.

EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)

EPIIC is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program. Through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.

EPIIC Archives

View our legacy of EPIIC programs in these archives from the past 25 years.

Exposure

Exposure is the Institute for Global Leadership’s photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights program. Dedicated to mentoring and developing young, knowledgeable photojournalists and documentary filmmakers, it is allied with the preeminent photographers of the VII Photo Agency, Contact Press, and other distinguished journalists.

Global Research Projects, Internships, and Conferences

Students are encouraged to conduct original, policy-oriented research and projects that allow them to test their theories and assumptions on the ground. Since 1985, more than 900 students have conducted research or participated in an international internship in more than 80 countries. These projects often develop into significant projects and senior honors theses.

Inquiry

Information on the 2010-2011 Simulation here

Inquiry, a global issues simulation program, was developed in 1991 by the EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) program at Tufts University. It is now a program of the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership. Currently in its 15th year, Inquiry provides a unique opportunity for high school students to participate in an intellectual and challenging simulation regarding pertinent international issues.

Institute Scholars and Practitioners in Residence (INSPIRE)

This program brings scholars and practitioners to campus for public lectures, classroom lectures and research and career advising.

International Resilience Program

This program addresses "What is resilience? Whose resilience? and resilience to what?" as its basic research questions with direct relevance to international health and social policy, focusing on both theory and practical applications.

Resilience is a multi-dimensional construct defined as

Iran Dialogue Initiative (IDI)

Mission
IDI’s mission is to facilitate educational dialogue and exchange between Tufts University students and students at the School for International Relations (SIR) in Tehran. This is a non-polemical and non-political initiative. In 2004, IDI organized the first official U.S. university visit to Iran since the 1979 revolution, where ten Tufts students spent two weeks traveling through Iran and meeting with their peers at SIR as well as at Mofid, a religious university in Qom.

Why Iran: Rationale

New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)

NIMEP is a non-polemical student think-tank and outreach initiative aimed at finding progressive solutions to the historic conflicts in the Middle East. NIMEP provides a forum for productive dialogue, scholarship, and exploration of the region. This initiative is committed to contributing to future leadership and to inspiring others to realize the powerful results such a model of thinking and action can produce.

Poverty and Power Research Initiative

In a world with substantial partnership and commitment from the international community to eradicate global poverty, it appears antithetical that, in many countries, levels of poverty remain stagnant or are worsening. Therefore, PPRI is a policy-oriented student research initiative that investigates the hypothesis that poverty is often a product of distorted national governance structures where decision making powers are unequally distributed within a society.

Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice

The Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice gives students the skills to explain the world around them to the people around them. The program teaches students to shape global issues into multi-media stories that are narrative and compelling.

Research and Engagement Supporting Poverty Elimination in Haiti (RESPE)

RESPE: Haiti is a student initiative through the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership whose mission is to partner with the rural community of Balan in northern Haiti and support its local development projects.

Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Public Policy Initiative

The Bendetson Public Diplomacy Initiative is an effort to bring key global policymakers and officials to Tufts to share their experiences and perspectives with students. It also brings these policymakers and officials together to discuss their shared experiences, such as the program on “Iraq: Moving Forward” in 2007, which explored next steps in Iraq with participants from Iraq, South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Guatemala

Special Programs

Click on the images below to learn more about Special Programs that the Institute for Global Leadership has sponsored 

Synaptic Scholars

The program creates a framework in which intellectual juxtapositions, critical thinking and self-directed explorations are fully realized. Synaptic Scholars is a leadership program, meant to provide a forum for students to take risks, pursue passions, and challenge assumptions in an intimate, supportive and collaborative environment. It is designed to cultivate a strong sense of accountability and responsibility, while encouraging scholars to enrich the University’s intellectual life and programming.

Tufts Energy Forum

Tufts Energy Conference 2010

The Tufts Energy Forum is pleased to announce the 2010 Tufts Energy Conference. For more information, please visit the official website of the Tufts Energy Conference at www.tuftsenergyconference.com.

Tufts Initiative for Leadership and International Perspective (TILIP)

In 1998, Tufts University, in cooperation with Peking University (Beijing), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong, began this unique leadership program. The program fosters cross-cultural team building through intensive, intellectual inquiry and practical study. Initially, students from all four universities spent the summers in Hong Kong, working in pairs at specifically designed internships and attending the Leadership Lecture Series and a weekly seminar.

Voices from the Field

For the last seven years, the IGL has brought back to campus mid-career alumni (the Voices) who are presently working in the fields of nation building, complex humanitarian emergencies, human rights, U.N. peacekeeping, refugee assistance, preventative diplomacy, conflict resolution, and development assistance. They engage in several days of intense round-table conversation and a full day of undergraduate advising.