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...
Conducted by David Rice,
Founder and Principal, Strategic Policy Concepts
Thursday, November 13; 10:00-11:00 am
Mugar 231
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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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Sir William Francis Butler
NEXUS | 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...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Marti Ahtisaari Kicks Off Fall Semester Events
The Institute for Global Leadership has held a number of events throughout the fall semester to date, including honoring the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Marti Ahtisaari with a Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award. The...
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...
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...
NEXUS | 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...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
Sebastian Chaskel
Research Associate, Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Back 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...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
The evening of our lives: Elegy for Akonyi Bedo
By Sam James
Throughout the course of 22 years of conflict in Northern Uganda, Lazarus Nyero never left home. His village hut was not burned, unlike nearly every other hut in the area. He was never harmed, unlike the tens of thousands killed and maimed. The conflict...
