March 27, 2013
tbd | 6:30pm9:30pm
Program:

ALLIES, in collaboration with the Women’s Center, will screen Impact Partners’ second Academy Award nominated documentary this season, “The Invisible War.” This is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem – today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 19,000 violent sex crimes in the military in 2010. “The Invisible War” exposes the epidemic, breaking open one of the most under-reported stories of our generation, to the nation and the world.

 
   
March 5, 2013
7:00pm10:00pm
Program:

On March 5, the Institute will host a panel discussion on “Ten Years after the Toppling: The Fall of Iraq, the Media, and US Intervention.” The discussion will feature:

• Peter Maass, award-winning author and journalist, who wrote about the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square and the US military’s entrance into Baghdad in 2003 for The New Yorker

• Gary Knight, award-winning photojournalist and co-founder of VII, who covered the war in Iraq as a non-embedded journalist and who photographed the toppling of the statue on April 9, 2003

• Tim McLaughlin, a Marine Corps officer who was working in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and who commanded the first American tank that entered Firdos Square on April 9, 2003, signaling the end of Saddam Hussein’s rule

• Mowaffak al-Rubaie, an Iraqi politician and the former national security adviser for Iraq (April 2004-2009), who was present for the execution of Saddam Hussein

 

 

 
   
March 4, 2013 to March 15, 2013
Program:

Dr. Mofwaffak al Rubaie is an Iraqi politician. He was appointed as a member of the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council by the Coalition Provisional Authority in July 2003. In April 2004, he was appointed National Security Advisor and held this position until 2009. From April 2009 to March 2012, Dr. al Rubaie was an MP in Iraq’s Council of Representatives.  Sponsored by the Bendetson Public Policy Initiative.

 

March 2, 2013 to March 3, 2013
Cabot Intercultural Center
Program:

Panels include: Energy Efficiency in China: Challenges and Lessons from the World’s Largest Energy Consumer | Climate Change and the Future of Biofuels | Tanks, Jets, and Solar Panels: The U.S. Military and Energy Security | Economic Policy and the Global Implications of the ‘Golden Age of Gas’ | Energy Innova- tion and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries | Arctic Anxiety: Evaluating Approaches to Arctic Resource Exploration

 
   
February 21, 2013 to February 24, 2013
Multiple, please check web site for details | 7:00pm
Program:

GLOBAL HEALTH and SECURITY

Thursday, February 21

• Workshop Report, 7:00pm

• Food Insecurity: Hunger, the Environment, and Conflict, 7:30pm

Friday, February 22

• Bystanders, Perpetrators and Survivors: A Global Health Perspective on Sexual Violence, 9:30am

• Lunch Break, 11:30am

• The Nexus of Water and Disease, 12:30pm

• Drugs for Survival: The Pharmaceutical Industry, 2:30pm

• Dinner Break, 4:45pm

• Symposium Introductions and Keynotes, 6:30pm

• Zoonoses and Pandemics: The Next Big One, 8:00pm

Saturday, February 23

• A State of Well-Being: Mental Health and Security, 9:30am

• Health and Human Rights in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, 11:00am

• Lunch Break, 1:00pm

• Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: How Significant a Threat?, 2:30pm

• Breakout Sessions, 4:30pm

• Dinner Break, 6:30pm

• Violence: A Global Public Health Challenge, 8:00pm

Sunday, February 24

• Health Care Delivery Systems: Bringing Care where it’s Needed Most, 1:00pm

• New Technologies at the Juncture of Health and Security, 3:30pm

 

 
   
February 26, 2013
Cabot Intercultural Center, ASEAN Auditorium | 8:00pm10:00pm
Program:

Peter Piot MD, PhD is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008. Professor Piot co- discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, and led research on AIDS, women’s health, and public health in Africa. He was a Scholar in Residence at the Ford Foundation and a Se- nior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He held the 2009 chair “Knowledge against poverty” at the College de France in Paris.

 
   
January 31, 2013
Cabot 702 | 5:30pm7:00pm
Program:

Amanda Judge, F'09, founded the Andean Collection in 2008 to bring sustainable change to impoverished communities in South America.

 
   
January 25, 2013 to January 27, 2013
Photonics Building, Boston University | 7:00pm3:00pm
Program:

Coordinated by the Boston University ALLIES Chapter and held at Boston University, the Roundtable will feature panels on American Identity | Domestic Challenges and Solutions | Credible International Strategies and a simulation on Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (https://www.facebook.com/events/392871454131178/)

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