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Published: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Matt Bai (LA ’90), a political writer for the New York Times Magazine, spoke to students yesterday about the transformative power of the Internet in national elections and the shifting political landscape.
Bai focused his speech on the implications of a possible Obama victory and the unprecedented technological factors underlying this year’s race.
To begin his Pearson Hall talk
The Nobel Committee awarded its 2008 peace prize on Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has been associated over decades with peace efforts and quiet, cautious diplomacy from Asia to Africa and Europe.
Read the article from the International Herald Tribune
President Ahtisaari was the recipient of a Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award on
For EPIIC students, participating in an Outward Bound weekend as part of orientation prepares them for the academic rigors to come.
Medford/Somerville, Mass. [09.30.08] Few Tufts students can say they've camped in the wilderness for a weekend with their fellow classmates. However, every graduate and current student of the EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) program at Tufts can say they've had three days of class in the New England outdoors.
Now en
(NECN) - A recent journey to Iraq may have possibly changed the future of the country. It all began with a program known as "Institute for Global Leadership" at Tufts University. Part of the "Iraq Project"
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The program drew on lessons from Ireland and South Africa, to create a process of reconciliation for Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish and other factions from Iraq. The journey led up to two conferences, months apart, i
The Tufts Daily
Dan Pasternack
Issue date: 7/1/08 Section: News
Tufts took on a major role in helping to heal the war-ravaged nation of Iraq as Iraqi leaders met late last month with officials from South Africa and Northern Ireland at a forum in Helsinki, Finland.
The private forum, known as Helsinki II, examined how diverse members of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein government can coexist and bring about change without the use of violence. It sought, at the very least, t
By Khalid al-Ansary
Reuters / July 6, 2008
BAGHDAD - Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister and a former top IRA guerrilla, urged Iraqis yesterday to learn from the experience of his homeland, which suffered decades of sectarian conflict, then found peace.
McGuinness was addressing a conference on national reconciliation in Baghdad that brought together politicians from across Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divide.
The participants, who included pr
Reconciling Iraq Following up on "Iraq Moving Forward" from January 2007, The Institute for Global Leadership, IGL External Advisory Board Chair Robert Bendetson, and University of Massachusetts/Boston Professor Padraig O'Malley gathered leading senior Iraqis in Helsinki for three days of discussions on principles of future engagement.
Under the aegis of the Synaptic Scholars Program and in collaboration with Sol Productions, Nomadic Wax Productions, and more than fifteen Tufts groups and organizations, Ikenna Acholonu, Erin Baldassari, and Breese McIlvaine coordinated a full-day event revolving around the theme of “Hip Hop for Social Change”.
The event began with a panel discussion on the evolution of hip hop and its hi
International Resilience Workshop (Talloires 2007) Participants' photograph by Gabriella Goldstein
Astier Almedom, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health at The Fletcher School and Inaugural IGL Fellow. Astier is the recipient of the 2008 Graduate Student Council Award for "Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Graduate Studies".
Over the last seven years, the Luce Program in Science and Humanitarianism at Tufts University has contributed si
Photo: Synaptic Scholars at a retreat in the fall of 2007
The IGL began its Synaptic Scholars program in 2006-07. Synaptic Scholars is designed to encourage and enable students interested in creative, intellectual exploration to realize their potential in intensive, interdisciplinary settings.
After being accepted into the program in their sophomore year, students work with selected faculty and other mentors to develop immersive and rigorous internships, research initiatives and
