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...
Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Public Policy Initiative
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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
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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|July 9, 2008
(NECN) - A recent journey to Iraq may have possibly changed the future of the country. It all began with a program known as "Institute for Global Leadership" at Tufts University. Part of the "Iraq Project"
The program drew on lessons from Ireland and South Africa, to create a process of reconciliation for Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish and other factions from Iraq. The...
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IGL News|July 8, 2008
The Tufts Daily
Dan Pasternack
Issue date: 7/1/08 Section: NewsTufts took on a major role in helping to heal the war-ravaged nation of Iraq as Iraqi leaders met late last month with officials from South Africa and Northern Ireland at a forum in Helsinki, Finland.
The private forum, known as Helsinki II, examined how diverse members of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein government can coexist and bring about change without...
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IGL News|July 8, 2008
By Khalid al-Ansary
Reuters / July 6, 2008BAGHDAD - Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister and a former top IRA guerrilla, urged Iraqis yesterday to learn from the experience of his homeland, which suffered decades of sectarian conflict, then found peace.
McGuinness was addressing a conference on national reconciliation in Baghdad that brought together politicians from across Iraq's sectarian and...
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IGL News|July 1, 2008Over the last weekend in April, 36 Iraqis -- senior figures in their respective political parties and tribal communities -- convened in Helsinki, Finland to discuss principles of future engagement. After three days of intense discussions, the conferees adopted a set of principles for joint national action in addition to a set of implementation mechanisms with the aim of advancing national reconciliation in Iraq.
Most importantly, they...
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IGL News|June 9, 2008TUFTS JOURNAL
Giving Peace a Chance
An initiative to solve the intractable conflict in Iraq brought the warring sides together in Helsinki recently for talks-thanks in part to critical Tufts connections