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 3, 2010- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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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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Program News|November 6, 2009
“Tejiendo los lienzos del desarrollo: Peace and Development in a Tumultuous Guatemala” is a faculty-student collaborative exhibition out of the Tufts University Anthropology Department and the student-let program, BUILD out of the Institute for Global Leadership.
Thirteen years since the signing of the Peace Accords, Guatemala and her people continue to face unfathomable obstacles in becoming a peaceful, progressing nation. Although...
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IGL News|October 27, 2009
Happy Birthday Sherman!
From your friends and colleagues at the IGL
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IGL News|October 27, 2009
Happy Birthday Sherman!
From your friends and colleagues at the IGL
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IGL News|May 8, 2009
- Programs : Synaptic Scholars
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Hannah Flamm
In May, the inaugural class of 11 Synaptic Scholars will graduate. Synaptic Scholars is designed to encourage and enable students to realize their potential in collaborative, intensive, and interdisciplinary settings. It is meant to provide a forum for students to take...
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IGL News|May 4, 2009
- Programs : Synaptic Scholars
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Hannah Flamm
In May, the inaugural class of 11 Synaptic Scholars will graduate. Synaptic Scholars is designed to encourage and enable students to realize their potential in collaborative, intensive, and interdisciplinary settings. It is meant to provide a forum for students to take...
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Program News|April 30, 2009
November- January 2008
- Students planned first trip to Haiti.
January 2008:
- RESPE: Boston’s assessment trip. We listened to Balan’s priorities, which included health, education, and finance; met with community leaders; and established RESPE: Balan, which guides our research and identifies local resources and needs.
Spring 2008:
- We strengthened our Boston ties with our current partners, the...
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IGL News|April 29, 2009
- Programs : Tufts Energy Forum
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Alex Clough and Peter O’Regan
The 4th annual Tufts Energy Conference, “Global Green Infrastructure: Powering the 21st Century”, took place on Saturday, March 28th in Tufts' new and environmentally-friendly Sophia Gordon Hall. It was a highly successful event that brought together...
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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...