Selected Programs

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    IGL Program

    ACCESS is a joint mentorship program between the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University and the Project on Justice in Times of Transition (PJTT) that combines our respective resources to mentor and foster a new generation of leaders in international diplomacy prepared to engage in today’s interdependent world with humility, sophistication, and an understanding of the complexities of the world today...

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    Student Program

    The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations. Through joint education, research, and training, ALLIES provides military and civilian students and professionals alike the opportunity to explore significant topics, events and policy while developing relationships that will last a lifetime.

    The time for increased underst...

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    IGL Program

    This annual Award is given in honor of EPIIC's wonderful student Boryana Damyanova of Bulgaria (1983-2005), whose passion and professional aspirations centered around the complex issues of capitalism, integrity, and corporate citizenship and accountability. Boryana Damyanova was an international student at Tufts University from Sofia, Bulgaria. Born and raised in Bulgaria, she studied at the Sofia Math School for two years prior to...

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    Student Program

    The BUILD Mission Statement

    Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD) is an interdisciplinary student-led program of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. BUILD seeks to educate and immerse students in the theory and practice of sustainable development by partnering with rural communities in the developing world to research and implement sustainable...

  • IGL Program

    Thank you to all who made the 5th Annual Tufts China-US Symposium a stellar sucess!

     

    If you missed it, watch it now.

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    IGL Program

    Discourse provides an inclusive platform for reasoned discussion and prescriptive analysis of issues of both international and domestic concern, while also including poetry, fiction, art and photography to illuminate the human condition. Its emphasis is on exploring a diversity of thought and perspectives from students, scholars, and practitioners. The purpose of Discourse is to provide an open forum for discussion of contemporary di...

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    IGL Program

    The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was established in 1993 to honor Jean Mayer, by challenging and inspiring our students and the community, by bringing to Tufts distinguished scholars and practitioners whose moral courage, personal integrity, and passion for scholarship resonated his dictum that:

     


    "Scholarship, research and teaching must be dedicated to solving the most pressing problems facing the...

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    IGL Program

    The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship educates, mentors, guides and motivates aspiring social entrepreneurs. Empower is a program for Tufts University undergraduate and graduate students to engage in practical, experiential learning for social entrepreneurship.

    We help students develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to pursue entrepreneurial ventures with a social perspective — with a...

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    Student Program

    For the most up to date information, please visit our external website Engineers Without Borders

    A collaboration with the School of Engineering, the mission of the Tufts Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is to design sustainable development projects for communities around the world and to engage students, faculty and the campus in the process. The g...

  • IGL Program

    EPIIC is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program. Through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.

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    Student Program

    Exposure is the Institute for Global Leadership’s photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights program. Dedicated to mentoring and developing young, knowledgeable photojournalists and documentary filmmakers, it is allied with the preeminent photographers of the VII Photo Agency, Contact Press, and other distinguished journalists. Exposure has run documentary photojournalism workshops in Kosovo, Argentina and Philadelphia; pu...

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    IGL Program

    Students are encouraged to conduct original, policy-oriented research and projects that allow them to test their theories and assumptions on the ground. Since 1986, more than 650 students have conducted research or participated in an international internship in more than 70 countries. These projects often develop into significant projects and senior honors theses. One project culminated in an informational DVD on the history of the S...

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    IGL Program

    View the Inquiry 2012 program here

    Inquiry, a global issues simulation program, was developed in 1991 by the EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) program at Tufts University. It is now a program of the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership. Currently in its 15th year, Inquiry provides a unique opportunity for hig...

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    IGL Program

    This program brings scholars and practitioners to campus for public lectures, classroom lectures and research and career advising. Recent participants have included Jack Blum, Senior Counsel for Special Projects for Finance Sector Compliance Advisers Limited and an expert on controlling government corruption, international financial crime, money laundering, international tax havens and drug trafficking; Peter Droege, the Asia-Pacifi...

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    IGL Program

    Mission
    IDI’s mission is to facilitate educational dialogue and exchange between Tufts University students and students at the School for International Relations (SIR) in Tehran. This is a non-polemical and non-political initiative. In 2004, IDI organized the first official U.S. university visit to Iran since the 1979 revolution, where ten Tufts students spent two weeks traveling through Iran and meeting with...

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    IGL Program

    NIMEP is a non-polemical student think-tank and outreach initiative aimed at finding progressive solutions to the historic conflicts in the Middle East. NIMEP provides a forum for productive dialogue, scholarship, and exploration of the region. This initiative is committed to contributing to future leadership and to inspiring others to realize the powerful results such a model of thinking and action can produce.

    In 2005, NIMEP...

  • Student Program

    In a world with substantial partnership and commitment from the international community to eradicate global poverty, it appears antithetical that, in many countries, levels of poverty remain stagnant or are worsening. Therefore, PPRI is a policy-oriented student research initiative that investigates the hypothesis that poverty is often a product of distorted national governance structures where decision making powers are unequally di...

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    IGL Program

    The Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice gives students the skills to explain the world around them to the people around them. The program teaches students to shape global issues into multi-media stories that are narrative and compelling.

    The role of narrative storytelling is increasingly important in this time of the 24-hour news cycle. Students will be trained by immersive practice to identify specific stories that...

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    Student Program

    RESPE: Haiti is a student initiative through the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership whose mission is to partner with the rural community of Balan in northern Haiti and support its local development projects. Through community- guided research and respectful collaboration, students in RESPE work on development initiatives, conduct independent research, learn first-hand about issues facing Haiti's long-term development, and help rai...