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.

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 together, the students will be researching their own individual topics, including Turkish investments in Kurdistan, the creation of defense forces,

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 condition of  medical education in the Gulf nations.

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 analysis and offering policy prescriptions when applicable.

NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009

By James Kennedy

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 fact-finding mission to Syria as well as primary research conducted in Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008

The Joint Research Project is a program of the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES). ALLIES is an undergraduate led initiative at the Institute for Global Leadership that creates a bridge for shared understanding between future civilian and military leaders.