NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
The evening of our lives: Elegy for Akonyi Bedo
By Sam James
Throughout the course of 22 years of conflict in Northern Uganda, Lazarus Nyero never left home. His village hut was not burned, unlike nearly every other hut in the area. He was never harmed, unlike the tens of thousands killed and maimed. The conflict...
photo credit: Rebekah Sokol / Tufts Daily
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...
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...
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...
By MICHAEL A. COHEN and MARIA FIGUEROA KÜPÇÜ
former panelist and outward bound speaker
August 22, 2008
Nearly a year after the tragic shooting of 17 Iraqis by Blackwater security contractors, the Department of Justice is close to indicting six of the guards involved in the horrific events. This is a long overdue step toward holding contractors legally responsible for their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But...
By MATT BAI
Washington
LIKE so much in his presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s search for a running mate was shadowed by the specter of race.
In the weeks leading up to his decision, as a flurry of new polls showed Mr. Obama and John McCain to be almost deadlocked, many Democrats and some members of the news media embraced a new article of faith: Lower-income white voters are resisting Mr. Obama’s candidacy principally...
by JAMES S. HENRY
From: The Nation | July 22, 2008
For what is the crime of burglarizing a bank, compared with the crime of building one? --Bertolt Brecht
The Hearing: Last week in Washington we got a rare look inside the global private banking industry, whose high purpose it is to gather up the assets of the world's wealthiest people and many of its worst villains, and shelter them from tax collectors, prosecutors,...
(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...
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...
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...
