EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Erin Baldassari
It is past Srinagar’s undeclared curfew, and the...
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Erin Baldassari
It is past Srinagar’s undeclared curfew, and the...
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Neeraj Doshi
“Save Dal Lake, the pride of Kashmir,” a schoolboy speaker shouted into the microphone...
Lilly Riber
Issue date: 10/23/07 Section: News
Media Credit: Tim Straub/Tufts Daily,
Sophomore Sabina Carlson and Junior Jesse Sloman participated in last night's screening.
PANGEA and the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the...
EXPOSURE-VII workshop in Kashmir | Photo Gallery
Adrienne Frieden
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John Meyers
Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: News
Last night a group of students gathered in Barnum for a discussion panel entitled "Security in Afghanistan: An Examination of Current Dilemmas to Securing Peace and Stability in Afghanistan."
"Afghanistan is a particularly relevant topic [considering] the surge in suicide bombing and the fact that most of the national debate seems to be [about] Iraq and not Afghanistan,"...
Ex-Pakistani official Abbas calls for soft-power along the Afghan-Pakistani border
by: Pranai Cheroo
Issue date: 11/14/06 Section: News
"You cannot bomb an idea, and there are some ideas that are too well-entrenched," Fletcher School doctoral candidate and ex-Pakistani official Hassan Abbas said in his lecture on Instability in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Areas last night.
Abbas,...
-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...
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...
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...
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...
EXP 91F
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm, Barnum 008
Bi-monthly Discussion Sessions TBA...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eritrea and South Sudan have totally different histories of emergence as "Newest nation in Africa", first Eritrea, and now South Sudan. Yet, there are important lessons to be learned.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/resilience/current-issue.shtml Responses to the content are welcome as we prepare to re-launch the International Resilience Forum (IRF) where discussion will be facilitated. Contact: <john.parker@tufts.edu>
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...
Astier Almedom offers a "Perspectives" article reflecting on the meanings of resilience with a focus on national security.
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs is a highly respected international journal run by accomplished students of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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...