NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2010

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The 25th Anniversary – from the Director, Sherman Teichman Twenty-five years since the first group of students joined together to study international terrorism and political violence.  Twenty-five years since those students challenged campus conventional wisdom and organized an international symposium on a weekend at Tufts.  Twenty-five years since the first sold-out EPIIC crowd in Cabot Auditorium. more>>

EPIIC's 25th Anniversary Colloquium: Our Nuclear Age Against the backdrop of the arc of nuclear history from the race for the atomic bomb and the secrecy and espionage of the Manhattan Project to President Obama’s 2010 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and Nuclear Security Summit, the 25th Anniversary EPIIC colloquium is exploring our global nuclear future. more>>

IGL Sending 54 Students to 12 Countries over Winter Break This winter intersession, 54 Institute students will be conducting research in 12 countries on issues, supported by the Javier Macaya Global Research Fund and the Empower Fund. more>>

Global Research -- Rio de Janeiro: Power, Public Security and New Democratic Potentials Synaptic Scholar Alison Coffey arrived in Brazil in June 2009, still reveling in the buzz of EPIIC: Forging an Urban Future. After nine exhausting but fulfilling months with a reading list like no other and the joy of soaking up the wisdom of the guest speakers, she landed in a new country where she intended to learn the language and begin an equally intense exploration of the urban experience in Rio de Janeiro, particularly its favelas. more>>

The IGL Launches the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice Led by Photojournalist Gary Knight This spring, the Institute for Global Leadership is launching a new initiative: the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice.  Founded and directed by acclaimed photojournalist and VII co-founder Gary Knight, the Program will teach students to seek out and explain complicated situations and communicate these situations to the public in a clear, engaging fashion, using visual, written and oral narratives. more>>

IGL-GlobalPost Collaboration Grows The IGL-GlobalPost partnership continues to develop as a serious outlet for student research.  This fall, GlobalPost revamped its Study Abroad site and kicked it off by publishing seven stories from the students who participated in the Exposure Workshop in Hue, Vietnam. VII Photojournalist Gary Knight and Journalist Mort Rosenblum led the workshop – their fifth – and the student pieces were accompanied by an introduction by Rosenblum.more>>

EXPOSURE/Aftermath Hold Two-Week Workshop in Houston 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. Individual photo essays explored gentrification, Baptist churches, ideas of home, single motherhood, art movements, black identity, family life, and legacies of the Civil Rights movement. more>>

Inquiry Receives US-Japan Foundation Grant for Research Trip in Japan This fall, Inquiry secured a grant from the US-Japan Foundation for its second Inquiry Research Trip.  This January, Inquiry will be taking 22 high school students and seven high school teachers from seven high schools in four states to Japan for nine days of study.  In a collaboration with the Synaptics Scholars program, two of the Synaptic Scholars – Ben Perlstein and Nadia Nibbs – will lead the trip. more>>

Peace Mapping in Kenya: IGL Students Launch Sisi ni Amani IGL Empower fellows Rachel Brown (Tufts 2010) and Cody Valdes (Tufts 2012) spent the summer launching Sisi ni Amani [We are Peace], a project to map and connect peace initiatives in Kenya. Brown and Valdes are co-founders of Sisi ni Amani, and will be staying on in Kenya to run the project for one to two years, at which point it will be handed over to local staff. During their summer months in Kenya, Rachel and Cody have made great strides on their way to launching Sisi ni Amani’s peace map and spent one month with Sisi ni Amani Media Manager Tegan Bukowski (Washington University, BA, 2010) leading workshops for youth in Kibera, perhaps Africa’s largest slum, to give them the digital media skills to photograph peace in their community. more>>

ALLIES Honors Fallen Tufts Alumnus and Begins Long-Term Relationship in Uganda Representatives from three ALLIES chapters, USNA, Tufts, and West Point, traveled to Uganda from July 23 – August 9, 2010 to conduct field research on the state of post-conflict reconstruction following the civil war against a rebel army, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), that ended in 2006.   Students included Ben Ross and Emily Paine from Tufts, Cadet Matt Ropelewski from West Point, and Midshipman Mark Carrion from the Naval Academy. The trip was inspired by the memory and legacy of Ben Sklaver, a Tufts and Fletcher alumnus, who was a Captain in the US Army when he was killed in Afghanistan. more>>

ALLIES Explores Civil-Military Relations in Ukraine This past summer, three students from the Institute’s ALLIES Program (Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and Service) teamed up with students from the US Air Force Academy, US Military Academy, and US Naval Academy to travel to Ukraine and conduct research on the future of that country’s military reforms.  The trip was the fourth ALLIES Joint Research Project (JRP) that has taken Tufts students and members of the service academies to Chile and Jordan in recent years to study civil-military issues.  This year’s JRP was organized through the US Naval Academy. more>>

ALLIES Holds Fourth Annual Intellectual Roundtable at the US Air Force Academy On October 22-23, 2010, ALLIES, the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services, hosted its fourth annual Intellectual Roundtable at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). Serving as the capstone event for ALLIES, the Roundtable previously has taken place at Tufts University and the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA). This year, over 25 students, cadets and midshipmen participated in the two-day conference. As part of the conference, the National Defense University’s Center for Advanced Strategic Learning hosted a Simulation Exercise (SIMULEX) for the attendees. more>>

IGL and Center for Cognitive Studies Host "Morality and the Mind" Symposium This October, as one of its 25th anniversary events, the Institute for Global Leadership hosted a symposium on “Morality and the Mind: Cognitive Science and Politics” in collaboration with the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts. Over the past decade, cognitive scientists have begun to address morality as an aspect of human cognition.  Is morality an inborn capacity?  How much can it be influenced by culture?  How much of it can be traced to our primate heritage? more>>