Special Events

Steve Coll

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Managing Editor and former South Asian (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) Correspondent, Washington Post; Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Co-sponsored by the Tufts Program in International Relations
EPIIC 20th Anniversary Event

Steve Coll,

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Managing Editor and former South Asian (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) Correspondent, Washington Post ; Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

EPIIC 20th Anniversary Event

Steve Coll

Pulitzer Prize-winning Managing Editor, Washington Post ; Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 and The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular - and Catastrophic - Takeover of All Time

EPIIC 20th Anniversary Event

David Goodstein, Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Caltech
Author, Out of Gas

Co-sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts

Peter Droege

Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy, Asia Pacific; Director, 'Solar City,' International Energy Agency CERT; Adviser, Beijing Municipal Institute for City Planning and Design; Leader, Missions in Africa and the Middle East, United Nations Development Programme; Editor, Intelligent Environments: IT, Telecommunications and Urban Form

Julia Taft

Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme; Headed the UNDP Task Force for Afghanistan; Former Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, United States Department of State; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, InterAction

"A Critique of US Foreign Policy"
EPIIC Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentation
Barnum 008, 7:00pm

Professor Stanley Hoffmann

Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University; Author of numerous books on international affairs, he is also an essayist for The New York Review of Books and the Western Europe review editor for Foreign Affairs

IGL/EPIIC Student Research Abroad Presentations
3:00-6:00 pm, Crane Room, Paige Hall

Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, France, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Panama, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Uganda, United Arab Emirates

Hosted with Provost Jamshed Bharucha

Ken Roth

Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

"Resource Wars"
Lecture and Discussion, 4:00 pm
Barnum 104

Michael Klare

Author, Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency

Peter Howe

Photographer, Author, Editor, Agent, Writer, and Curator

Hurst Hannum

Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School
20th Anniversary Event

Dr. Allan E. Goodman

President, Institute for International Education (IIE), the leading not-for-profit organization in the field of international educational exchange and development training that administers the Fulbright program; former, Executive Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor at Georgetown University; Former Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence

This workshop will provide an introduction to marine GIS, coastal resource management, and research challenges for oil and water, including a demonstration of how a GIS is used for global ocean analysis using examples from a marine archeology case study in Israel. It will also be an introduction to new ways that a GIS can be used to inform decisions on contested resource issues in the Middle East.

Joe Breman

Editor; Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas; Served as Vice-President on the board of directors of the Society for Conservation GIS; Member of ESRI's professional services division

Nick Birnback received his B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University and also has a Masters degree in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship, and he received the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity 2000 Humanitarian Award as part of his work with UNAMET. Mr. Birnback also was the recipient of the EPIIC Alumni Recognition Award in 2003.

This workshop will demonstrate how a GIS can be used to visualize key oceanographic concepts. Topics covered will include sea floor spreading, plate tectonics, bathymetry, and the layers of the Earth. ArcGIS will be used to demonstrate global ocean phenomenon including, exclusive economic zones, marine pollution, and oil pollution. There will be a focus on the hydrological and marine data models and demonstration of how they are used in GIS problem solving.

Joe Breman

Editor; Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas; Served as Vice-President on the board of directors of the Society for Conservation GIS; Member of ESRI's professional services division

This hands-on workshop is an introduction to using ESRI's ArcGIS software for GIS spatial analysis.

"Should Climate Change Drive Energy Policy?"
Cabot 206, 6:00 pm

Hear an environmental scientist, Professor Bill Moomaw, and a former oil executive, Professor Bruce Everett, share their views on oil, climate change, and the impacts they should have on business and the modern economy.

Co-sponsored by Fletcher Environment & Sustainability Initiative and
the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts

"The Politics of Oil in Nigeria: Blessing or Curse?"

Professor Darren Kew

Professor in the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts