Photograph:The 2008 EPIIC SYMPOSIUM. Left to right, Jackie Silberman, Rachel Brown, David Mok, Kelsi Stine
As a special project derived from the EPIIC 2007-08 theme on "Global Poverty and Inequality," a team of seven undergraduate and graduate students worked with INSPIRE Fellow, Amb. José María "Chema" Argueta to understand how the mission and innovative methodology of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) as well as the "MCC Effect...
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...
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...
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...
TUFTS JOURNAL
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
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Jessica Bidgood
Dal Lake is tucked into the foothills of the Himalayas near Srinagar. Illuminated by a waxing moon, it is still tonight, as it is most nights. But an aural...
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Sam James
Naka Nights
The Boston Globe
A column by David Nyhan, originally published on Sunday, March 1, 1998
This is the story of how two young women, with just their freshman year at Tufts University behind them, went to Nepal last summer to learn firsthand what should be done and what can be done about the slave trade that takes poor peasant girls from their mountain villages to the bordellos of India and the Middle East.
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