Jess Bidgood, EXPOSURE’06-, EPIIC’08
Photo by Jess Bidgood, A Woman Prays in the Grand Mosque in SRINAGAR, KASHMIR
I am sitting on the floor of a small room that is dubiously wedged, seemingly as an afterthought, between the first and third floors of a rickety building on a narrow street in Srinagar. To get into in to this room, you have to squeeze through an alleyway and past a medium-sized brown cow, who is sifting through a pile of chip bags and cigarette butts, refuse from t
Photograph: Allies Intellectual Roundtable November 2007
The IGL's ALLIES program experienced a very successful surge this year with the infusion of INSPIRE Fellow Gregg Nakano. ALLIES (Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services), the Institute's civil-military initiative, grew out of the IGL's long-standing interactions with the US Military and Naval Academies (starting as far back as the first EPIIC symposium on International Terrorism, when a delegation of USMA cadets
Photograph: Sherman Teichman with Former President William Jefferson Clinton in September 2007
This year, through IGL External Advisory Board Member Tim Phillips, the IGL was nominated to attend the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative, hosted by President Bill Clinton and his foundation.
According to its web site, President Clinton launched the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2005 as a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and
Photograph: Children from Balan, Haiti, Sabina Carlson
This year, Tufts University alumni, Angelos Metaxa (A’91) and Javier Macaya (A’91), now both IGL External Advisory Board Members, joined forces to found EMPOWER at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership to establish a learning and practical experience platform to engage Tufts students in social entrepreneurship aimed at poverty alleviation.
They said, "Our commitment to EMPOWER is long term as we feel that social
Over the last weekend in April, 36 Iraqis -- senior figures in their respective political parties and tribal communities -- convened in Helsinki, Finland to discuss principles of future engagement. After three days of intense discussions, the conferees adopted a set of principles for joint national action in addition to a set of implementation mechanisms with the aim of advancing national reconciliation in Iraq.
Most importantly, they agreed that dialogue and negotiation was the primar
Editorial | Outsourcing the war and forgetting its costs
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Posted: 12/3/07
The Tufts Democrats and the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and Services (ALLIES) deserve accolades for the symposium that they put on this past weekend. Devoted to discussion about civilian-military relations in the 21st century, the event featured a panel on the contentious issue of private military contractors (PMCs).
Using private firms to help fight a public war is not unprecedente
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Giving Peace a Chance
An initiative to solve the intractable conflict in Iraq brought the warring sides together in Helsinki recently for talks-thanks in part to critical Tufts connections
From the Tufts Parents Newsletter - Undergraduate Life
At a time when the United States is at war, the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), one of the Institute for Global Leadership's (IGL) interdisciplinary programs, is working to connect emerging leaders in the civilian and military sectors in order to improve understanding and mutual respect between these two seemingly disparate communities.
Formally established in the spring of 2006, ALLIES is co
By ESI Resource Manager, Max Leiserson
This past Saturday, March 29th, North Haven State Representative Steve Fontana moderated the Tufts Energy Conference panel discussing “Successful Maneuvering Within Policy Frameworks,” at Tufts University in Medford, MA. Fontana, the co-chairman of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Energy & Technology Committee, offered a brief introduction to the panel by examining the role of government in the energy market.
“Government is inevitably
Dems weigh private military contractors at symposium
By: Gillian Javetski
The Tufts Daily - Issue date: 12/3/07 Section: News
The Tufts Democrats joined together on Saturday with the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) to discuss the military.
The Dems' third annual Issues of the Future Symposium consisted of four panels in Cabot 204. They all highlighted the "Challenges and Dilemmas of U.S. Civil-Militar
