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...
Edited by Judy Kuriansky
"Young Leaders on the Front Lines for Palestinian-Israeli Peace" by Alumna Rachel Brandenburg (A'05, EPIIC '03)
About the book:
In the midst of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, civil war, and political discord, courageous civilians from both sides are working together toward mutual understanding and peace. Israeli Jews and Arabs, and Palestinian Muslims and Christians, young and old, men and...
By IGL Alumnus and Boston Globe Staff writer Neil Swidey (A'91)
About the book:
Jack O'Brien is a high school basketball coach extreme in both his demands and his devotion. With monastic discipline, he has built a powerhouse program that wins state championships year after year while helping boys rise above the neighborhood forces pulling them down, and get to college. He does this as a white suburban guy working exclusively...
Edited by Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas and EPIIC Alumna Aditi Banerjee (A'02, EPIIC '01)
About the book:
India, once a major civilizational and economic power that suffered centuries of decline, is now newly resurgent in business, geopolitics and culture. However, a powerful counterforce within the American Academy is systematically undermining core icons and ideals of Indic Culture and thought. For instance, scholars...
By Adam Dolnik and EPIIC Alumnus Keith Fitzgerald (A '91)
About the book:
This book is about the role of negotiation in resolving terrorist barricade hostage crises. What lessons can be learned from past deadly incidents so that crisis negotiators and decision makers can act with greater effectiveness in the future? What are the lessons the terrorists are learning and how will they affect the dynamics of future incidents? What...
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007
By Matt Bai (A '90, EPIIC '90)
About the book:
Great political movements need more than a bunch of shared principles; they need an argument. The New Dealers had one. So did the Goldwater conservatives. So what's the progressive argument? What new path are Democrats urging us to choose in the era of Wal-Mart, Al Qaeda, and YouTube? Matt Bai seeks answers in The Argument, a book that...
Progressives in the U.S. are focused on the immediacy of November 2008, but they don’t like to admit it. The battle between short-term and long-term interests — and progressives’ current obsession with the short-term — is at the heart of The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, by New York Times Magazine writer and EPIIC alum Matt Bai (A ’90).
This is not a book about next...
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...
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...
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...
