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...
New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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IGL News|February 11, 2011- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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...
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IGL News|January 7, 2011- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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...
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Program News|January 3, 2010- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
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 1, 2010
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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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IGL News|April 28, 2009
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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...
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IGL News|April 1, 2009- Programs : New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)
Every year, NIMEP publishes this journal of student-written academic articles in order to add to the constantly evolving dialogue that seeks to promote peace in the most tumultuous region on Earth. This edition contains articles written by a diverse student group; authors come from all four years of undergraduate education at Tufts University as well as one student at the Fletcher School for Law and diplomacy. This issue highlights our latest...