Photograph: Children from Balan, Haiti, Sabina Carlson
This year, Tufts University alumni, Angelos Metaxa (A’91) and Javier Macaya (A’91), now both IGL External Advisory Board Members, joined forces to found EMPOWER at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership to establish a learning and practical experience platform to engage Tufts students in social entrepreneurship aimed at poverty alleviation.
They said, "Our...
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...
From the Tufts Parents Newsletter - Undergraduate Life
At a time when the United States is at war, the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), one of the Institute for Global Leadership's (IGL) interdisciplinary programs, is working to connect emerging leaders in the civilian and military sectors in order to improve understanding and mutual respect between these two seemingly disparate communities.
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By ESI Resource Manager, Max Leiserson
This past Saturday, March 29th, North Haven State Representative Steve Fontana moderated the Tufts Energy Conference panel discussing “Successful Maneuvering Within Policy Frameworks,” at Tufts University in Medford, MA. Fontana, the co-chairman of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Energy & Technology Committee, offered a brief introduction to the panel by examining the role of government in...
Dems weigh private military contractors at symposium
By: Gillian Javetski
The Tufts Daily - Issue date: 12/3/07 Section: News
The Tufts Democrats joined together on Saturday with the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) to discuss the military.
The Dems' third annual Issues of the Future Symposium consisted of four panels in Cabot 204. They all highlighted...
The Trident Thursday, November 29, 2007
By Midn. 1⁄C Matt Melton Special to Trident
Earlier this month, Midshipmen attended a symposium on civil-military relations hosted by the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
The conference, titled ''Classroom for the Leadership for 2050,'' brought together experts from academia, the civil service and the military with undergraduate students from...
The Military Matters
By Scott Dodds
Issue date: 11/28/07 Section: Op-Ed
This Saturday, the Tufts Democrats, in conjunction with the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), will host their annual Issues of the Future Symposium, "The Challenges and Dilemmas of Civil-Military Relations in the 21st Century." A plethora of speakers will address this most important of issues, and I encourage anyone...
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Tim Fitzsimons
Forty-one years ago, George Harrison was paddled out into the center of Dal Lake in Kashmir by Lassa, a shikara walla. While he floated under the moonlight, he strummed his...
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Samuel duPont
The village of Wathoora blends into the dense oak forest that grows around it. A bumpy dirt track leads through the trees, away from the potholed main road, and as I am jostled...
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Valerie Schenkman
The modern Kashmiri woman speaks a language of two tongues: a mixture of gentle humility, characteristic of a housewife, infused with the firebrand determination of a working...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A column by Trudy Rubin, originally published on Wednesday, May 21, 1997
A month ago, I attended a fascinating symposium on "The Future of Democracy" organized by an unusual group: students at Tufts University in Massachusetts in a program called EPIIC, which stands for "Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship."
These young people -- from freshmen to grad...
The Boston Globe
An editorial, originally published on Saturday, March 4, 1995
Global financial markets and international crime; population control, environmental degradation and national security; artificial intelligence and free will; viruses without visas - these are the topics that interweave in today's intellectual tapestry. Over five days ending Monday, some of the world's best minds will convene at Tufts...
