Astier Almedom's thoughts on resilience in Haiti in the aftermath of the most devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010.
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Program News|February 5, 2010
- Programs : International Resilience Program
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Program News|January 4, 2010- Programs : Exposure
Photographs by VII
January 21 – April 4, 2010
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 28, 5:30-8pm
Remarks by VII photographers at 6:30pmView the Questions without Answers Mini-site View the Tag Cloud
MEDFORD, MA – The Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts’ Institute for Global...
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Program News|January 3, 2010- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
Eight students from the New Initiative For Middle East Peace departed today for NIMEP's annual fact-finding mission, this year traveling to Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The trip is an opportunity for these students to conduct professional-caliber research in a real-world setting. Each student will be producing a paper on the topic of their choice, ranging from a security studies look at tensions in the Persian Gulf to the current...
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Program News|January 1, 2010
- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
The Tufts New Initiative For Middle East Peace (NIMEP) is happy to announce the launching of its new student-run blog through the Tufts Roundtable. The blog will present student opinions on breaking news events, contemporary issues and topics, as well as summaries of our weekly dialogue sessions. Students will be encouraged to write about a topic of their own choosing, presenting personal...
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Program News|November 6, 2009
“Tejiendo los lienzos del desarrollo: Peace and Development in a Tumultuous Guatemala” is a faculty-student collaborative exhibition out of the Tufts University Anthropology Department and the student-let program, BUILD out of the Institute for Global Leadership.
Thirteen years since the signing of the Peace Accords, Guatemala and her people continue to face unfathomable obstacles in becoming a peaceful, progressing nation. Although...
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Program News|April 30, 2009
November- January 2008
- Students planned first trip to Haiti.
January 2008:
- RESPE: Boston’s assessment trip. We listened to Balan’s priorities, which included health, education, and finance; met with community leaders; and established RESPE: Balan, which guides our research and identifies local resources and needs.
Spring 2008:
- We strengthened our Boston ties with our current partners, the...
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Program News|February 7, 2009On Friday, February 6, BUILD was informed that it's application had been selected for the 100 Projects for Peace Prize of Tufts University. Prize winners receive $10,000 towards a project designed to promote Peace. The Projects for Peace Website describes the mission of the contest:
In its third year, Davis Projects for Peace is an invitation to undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World...
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Program News|November 14, 2008
- Programs : Tufts Energy Forum
by Elyse Tyson
Fletcher International Business Professor Bruce Everett spoke to 30 Tufts and Fletcher students Thursday night on the prospects of fossil fuels in the 21st century. Everett, a Fletcher graduate and Fulbright scholar, has worked in the energy industry for almost 30 years, 22 of which were spent at ExxonMobil.
Everett began his presentation by clarifying the difference between resources and reserves, the former...
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Program News|November 13, 2008
- Programs : Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship
MICROLOAN FOUNDATION USA INFORMATION SESSION
Conducted by David Rice,
Founder and Principal, Strategic Policy ConceptsThursday, November 13; 10:00-11:00 am
Mugar 231Learn more about MicroLoan foundation USA and related internships and research opportunities.
Coffee and refreshments will be served.
The Fletcher School | Microfinance and Development Venture Capital Club
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Program News|July 1, 2008- Programs : Synaptic Scholars
Photo: Synaptic Scholars at a retreat in the fall of 2007
The IGL began its Synaptic Scholars program in 2006-07. Synaptic Scholars is designed to encourage and enable students interested in creative, intellectual exploration to realize their potential in intensive, interdisciplinary settings.
After being accepted into the program in their sophomore year, students work with selected faculty and other mentors to develop immersive...
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IGL News|October 31, 2008NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
In October, as part of a developing collaboration with Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia and Hybricore in Chicago, the IGL hosted two senior members of the Faculty of Technology from AAU courtesy of Gregg Steinberg, the founder of Hybricore.
Dr. Abebe Dinku and Dr. Heyaw Tereffe spent a week at the IGL, learning...
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IGL News|October 28, 2008
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
With 2007 seeing the first time in history that more of the world’s population is living in urban areas than in rural areas, EPIIC is exploring “Global Cities” as its 2008-09 theme.
Cities have variously been understood as the cultivators of civilization and the generators of prosperity, as well as the source of...
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IGL News|October 28, 2008NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
Ten years after graduating, Tufts graduate and Institute for Global Leadership alumnus Ryan Centner has returned to campus, this time in the role of Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology where he also teaches on the sociology of leadership.
A double major in Sociology and International Relations, in his...
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IGL News|October 28, 2008NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
Sebastian Chaskel
Research Associate, Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsBack in 2000, then-candidate George W. Bush pledged to make this a "Century of the Americas." ''Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America,'' then-candidate George W. Bush told a Miami audience in...
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IGL News|October 28, 2008photo 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...
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IGL News|October 6, 2008For 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...
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Program News|December 31, 1999-by Sherman Teichman, Heather Barry
"For more than a decade EPIIC has provided our students with an opportunity to examine the most complex international issues which generate enormous amounts of partisanship. EPIIC has demanded only one thing: Learn when fact informs opinion, and when opinion informs fact...That has been the standard of the EPIIC programs: high intellectual engagement, passion and heat by necessity, and the capacity...
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Program News|February 28, 1999
An editorial, originally published on Sunday, February 28, 1999
Not too long ago it was fashionable for world-weary realists to argue that a little bribery might serve the cause of economic efficiency. No more
The cataclysms that have racked Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Russia taught an expensive lesson: Corruption, far from being part of the solution for underdevelopment in Third World and postcommunist countries, is...
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IGL News|March 1, 1998
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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Program News|March 1, 1998
International Migration Review
A conference report by Mark Miller, originally published in Winter 1998
EPIIC is the acronym for Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship, a program of Tufts University's Experimental College which, since 1986, organizes an annual program on an issue of pressing international concern. The 1998 program, Exodus and Exile: Refugees, Migration, and Global Security, was...