Professor Astier M. Almedom (PI) and Professor George A. Bonanno (PI) have been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant to develop methods and tools for measuring community resilience to extreme events. This research...
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Program News|January 29, 2013
- Programs : International Resilience Program
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Program News|September 21, 2012
As part of the EPIIC “Conflict in the 21st Century” symposium in February 2012, EPIIC for the first time dedicated one of its breakout sessions to gathering experts and students in thinking about the following year's theme on global health and security. One of the leaders of the session was Ezra Barzilay, an alumnus of both Tufts undergraduate and medical schools and a Commander in the US Public Health Service as...
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Program News|September 21, 2012Myanmar sits at a crossroads, between the oppression of the last decades and the recent promise of an opening society; between its isolation and the possibility of rejoining the international community; and between the rising geographical powers of China and India. After decades under severe authoritarian military rule, virtually closed off to the outside world, Myanmar is just starting to see an influx of international visitors and...
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Program News|September 21, 2012“We are all BUILD,” mused Janani Duraisamy, reflecting upon her position as Learning Center administrator for the past year.
Janani is a student and resident of the village of Thottiyapatti, a bustling hamlet of about 300 people located approximately three kilometers from the larger village of Thenur in rural Perambular, Tamil Nadu, India.
For the past two years, the IGL’s BUILD: India program has been working with the NGO...
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Program News|February 9, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012: ‘Zahra’s Paradise’ is the new graphic novel by an Iranian-American author. He tells host Marco Werman how he created a webstrip based on the images streaming out of the Iranian protests in 2009. Listen to the full story at Soundcloud.com.
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Program News|June 22, 2011EXP 91F
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm, Barnum 008
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Program News|May 16, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Jacqueline Kingfield has won a Boren Fellowship for a year in India where she will be studying Urdu as part of completing her MALD degree at the Fletcher School.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Tiffany Castillo has won the Thomas F. Black Jr Memorial Scholarship of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation. Tiffany will be attending Boston College Law School in the Fall.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Chloé Rousseau was awarded the Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship on April 15th. Chloé will be pursuing her master's in public health studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Fall.
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Program News|March 25, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Professor Almedom and her colleagues/students at the Fltecher School answer informal questions on the study of resilience and the details of publishing in the Resilience journal.
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IGL News|September 29, 2012This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in an Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) Joint Research Project (JRP) that took place in Rwanda. Over three weeks, we heard the stories of Rwanda’s recent history and plans for the future from a broad variety of individuals.
Joint Research Projects (JRP) are one of ALLIES core inter-chapter initiatives conducted annually by ALLIES members in order to provide...
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IGL News|February 9, 2012
Ayron Strauch (G10) successfully...
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IGL News|December 10, 2010By LT Anne Gibbon
Assistant Director, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, US Naval Academy and trip leader
Representatives from three ALLIES chapters, USNA, Tufts, and West Point, traveled to Uganda from July 23 – August 9, 2010 to conduct field research on the state of post-conflict reconstruction following the civil war against a rebel army, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), that...
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IGL News|December 7, 2010On October 22-23, 2010, ALLIES, the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services, hosted its fourth annual Intellectual Roundtable at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA).
Serving as the capstone event for ALLIES, the Roundtable previously has taken place at Tufts University and the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA). This year, over 25 students, cadets and midshipmen participated in the two-day conference. As part of the conference,...
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IGL News|December 7, 2010This past summer, three students from the Institute’s ALLIES Program (Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and Service) teamed up with students from the US Air Force Academy, US Military Academy, and US Naval Academy to travel to Ukraine and conduct research on the future of that country’s military reforms. The trip was the fourth ALLIES Joint Research Project (JRP) that has taken Tufts students and members of the service academies to Chile...
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IGL News|October 31, 2008
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards."
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IGL News|October 31, 2008
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
The Joint Research Project is a program of the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES). ALLIES is an undergraduate led initiative at the Institute for Global Leadership that creates a bridge for shared understanding between future civilian and military leaders.
The Joint Research Project (JRP) is...
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IGL News|July 1, 2008Photograph: 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...
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Program News|June 11, 2008
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...