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...
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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
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm, Barnum 008
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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|May 21, 2012- Programs : Exposure
The photography of IGL alum, Elizabeth Herman, was featured on the New York Times photography blog, Lens.
Time, pitilessly lurching forward, has a way of altering memory.
And a memory can be a powerful thing. Tweaked, reinterpreted, repackaged — in a war-ravaged country, it’s a political tool, to be sold back to people seeking stability, seeking answers. Or, it could be a means to empowerment, a way to define one’s...
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IGL News|April 18, 2012- Programs : Exposure
"Ballplayer : Pelotero", our feature length documentary about teenage baseball players in the Dominican Republic has been bought by indie film distributor Strand Releasing. That means that the film is FINALLY coming to a theater near you.
Mark your calendars, as the movie will be released July 13th in select cities. More details on cities and theaters will follow. Don't worry! No matter where you are you will have a chance to... -
IGL News|February 1, 2012- Programs : Exposure
GlobalPost – in partnership with the Open Hands Initiative – brought together 17 top, young journalists to cover “Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution.”
Nine Egyptians. Eight Americans. One team coming together to tell the stories of Egypt’s dramatic, ongoing journey.
The panel discussion will feature five of the Fellows, including Tufts alumna Elizabeth Herman’10,
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IGL News|January 12, 2012- Programs : Exposure
January 27, 2012 to February 6, 2012
Slater Concourse Gallery | 9:00am-5:00pmReception: Friday, January 27...
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IGL News|August 17, 2011- Programs : Exposure
Samuel James, the inaugural recipient of the Alexandra Boulat Award for Photojournalism from the Institute for Global Leadership and VII Photo Agency, had his photos on ...
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IGL News|December 7, 2010
- Programs : Exposure
This summer, in collaboration with Aftermath Founder and photographer Sara Terry and photographer Jeff Jacobsen, eight members of Exposure explored one of America's most defining aftermaths -- the aftermath of slavery, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement -- and the effect these events continue to have on our country today, particularly as they relate to race relations...
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Program News|August 12, 2010- Programs : Exposure
This Award, a $2,500 stipend, has been established by the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University and its Exposure program to promote the creation of documentary work with a social purpose. Named in honor of Alexandra Boulat, a co-founder of VII Photo Agency, it has been created to acknowledge the...
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Program News|January 4, 2010- Programs : Exposure
Photographs by VII
January 21 – April 4, 2010
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 28, 5:30-8pm
Remarks by VII photographers at 6:30pmView the Questions without Answers Mini-site View the Tag Cloud
MEDFORD, MA – The Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts’ Institute for Global...
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IGL News|October 31, 2008
- Programs : Exposure
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...
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IGL News|October 28, 2008- Programs : Exposure
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...