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...
New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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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|February 11, 2011- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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...
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IGL News|January 7, 2011- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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...
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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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IGL News|April 28, 2009
- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By James Kennedy
On the flight home from Tel Aviv, we would have been celebrating our successful trip if we hadn’t been so demoralized and emotionally exhausted. On paper, the New Initiative For Middle East Peace (NIMEP) fact-finding mission to Israel and the West Bank had been an admirable success...
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IGL News|April 1, 2009- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
Every year, NIMEP publishes this journal of student-written academic articles in order to add to the constantly evolving dialogue that seeks to promote peace in the most tumultuous region on Earth. This edition contains articles written by a diverse student group; authors come from all four years of undergraduate education at Tufts University as well as one student at the Fletcher School for Law and diplomacy. This issue highlights our latest...