On Saturday, April 2nd, the Institute will host "A World of (wiki)Leaks: Secrecy and Access in a Democratic Society." This one-day conference, organized by the National Security and Civil Liberties project of the Institute's ALLIES Program, will pursue questions such as:
What information should exist in the public domain and...
Join us on Tuesday March 15th at 7pm in Barnum 008 for a lecture and presentation by David Rohde, award-winning journalist for the New York Times and author of A Rope and Prayer. Mr. Rohde's lecture is the first event of The Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, a new initiative of the Institute for Global Leadership directed by Gary Knight, co-founder of VII Photo Agency.
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The Institute published its Fall 2010 newsletter, NEXUS, with stories on the ongoing 25th Anniversary Celebration, students research and projects from Kenya to Brazil, the new US-Japan Foundation grant to bring Inquiry students to Japan to investigate nuclear issues, its new initiative on Narrative and Documentary Practice with VII...
On Tuesday February 15th, the New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) will hold a public lecture/forum to discuss the current turmoil in Egypt, as well as short and long term implications for the country and the region as a whole.
The event will start at 6:30pm in Cabot Auditorium and is open to the public.
Two leading experts on Egypt and the Middle East, Professor Tarek Masoud of the...
On Tuesday February 8, Dr. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter spoke to a packed audience about his experience of being incarcerated for 20 years for a crime he did not commit, and his work since his release in 1986 to help free others who have been wrongly accused.
This event was the inaugural public forum dedicated to the memory of Professor Gerald Gill, a member of the...
Eleven Tufts students arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan on January 4 to begin two weeks of research as NIMEP's eighth annual fact-finding mission. The students, ranging from sophomores to seniors, will spend two weeks in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, where they will conduct interviews with business professionals, community activists, political leaders, academics, and others who can shed light on recent developments in the region. While traveling...
The Institute published its Fall 2010 newsletter, NEXUS, with stories on the ongoing 25th Anniversary Celebration, students research and projects from Kenya to Brazil, the new US-Japan Foundation grant to bring Inquiry students to Japan to investigate nuclear issues, its new initiative on Narrative and Documentary Practice with VII Photojournalist Gary...
Twenty-five years since the first group of students joined together to study international terrorism and political violence. Twenty-five years since those students challenged campus conventional wisdom and organized an international symposium on a weekend at Tufts. Twenty-five years since the first sold-out EPIIC crowd in Cabot Auditorium.
We have experienced 25 years of growth and success,...
This October, as one of its 25th anniversary events, the Institute for Global Leadership hosted a symposium on “Morality and the Mind: Cognitive Science and Politics” in collaboration with the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts.
Over the past decade, cognitive scientists have begun to address morality as an aspect of human cognition. Is morality an inborn capacity? How much can it be influenced by culture? How...
“I have felt it myself, the glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our trouble--this, what you might call...
