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Padraig O’Malley: Kirkuk: Obstacle to American Withdrawal from Iraq?

Shishire — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:22:30 -0600

Padraig O’Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author on topics related to divided societies. Among his award winning books are Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj & the Struggle for South Africa; Sticks and Stones: Living with Uncertain Wars (ed.); Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair; and The Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today.

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The Iraq Project

Matt Mercier — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:17:14 -0500

Derived from EPIIC's 2006 forum,"The Politics of Fear", the Institute's “Iraq: Moving Forward” Symposium (January 2007) evolved into closed facilitations, Helsinki I in September 2007, Helsinki II in Finland in April 2008, and is now continuing in Badgdad Iraq. Links and Media NECN: "The Main Event"

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The Main Event: Reconciliation in Iraq

Matt Mercier — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:38:54 -0500

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The Origins of the Iraq Project

Matt Mercier — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

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The Main Event: Reconciliation in Iraq

Matt Mercier — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:48:12 -0500

(NECN) - A recent journey to Iraq may have possibly changed the future of the country. It all began with a program known as "Institute for Global Leadership" at Tufts University. Part of the "Iraq Project"

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Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership co-convenes Iraqi peace talks in Helsinki

Matt Mercier — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:48:21 -0500

The Tufts Daily
Dan Pasternack
Issue date: 7/1/08 Section: News

Tufts took on a major role in helping to heal the war-ravaged nation of Iraq as Iraqi leaders met late last month with officials from South Africa and Northern Ireland at a forum in Helsinki, Finland.

The private forum, known as Helsinki II, examined how diverse members of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein government can coexist and bring about change without the use of violence. It sought, at the very least, to hold peaceful discussions.

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McGuinness urges Iraq to learn from N. Ireland's past

Matt Mercier — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:45:11 -0500

By Khalid al-Ansary
Reuters / July 6, 2008

BAGHDAD - Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister and a former top IRA guerrilla, urged Iraqis yesterday to learn from the experience of his homeland, which suffered decades of sectarian conflict, then found peace.

McGuinness was addressing a conference on national reconciliation in Baghdad that brought together politicians from across Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divide.

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NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2008

Matt Mercier — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:46:16 -0500

Reconciling Iraq Following up on "Iraq Moving Forward" from January 2007, The Institute for Global Leadership, IGL External Advisory Board Chair Robert Bendetson, and University of Massachusetts/Boston Professor Padraig O'Malley gathered leading senior Iraqis in Helsinki for three days of discussions on principles of future engagement.

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Reconciling Iraq

Matt Mercier — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:18:05 -0500

Over the last weekend in April, 36 Iraqis -- senior figures in their respective political parties and tribal communities -- convened in Helsinki, Finland to discuss principles of future engagement. After three days of intense discussions, the conferees adopted a set of principles for joint national action in addition to a set of implementation mechanisms with the aim of advancing national reconciliation in Iraq.

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EPIIC Symposium On Global Poverty And Inequality

Matt Mercier — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:35:06 -0500

Mass poverty is one of the world’s most pressing problems and daunting challenges. The compelling facts are well known:

• Over one billion people – almost one in five – live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than a dollar a day.
• If the poverty line was raised to $2 a day, more than half of the world’s population would be living in poverty.
• Over 100 million primary school-age children cannot afford to go to school.
• Eight million people die each year simply because they lack the means to survive.

Voices from the Field

Mac Maharaj speaks on “Nelson Mandela: Myth and the Man,”

Matt Mercier — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:46:26 -0500

In October, Mac Maharaj came to Tufts to speak on “Nelson Mandela: Myth and the Man,” which also featured highlights from the book Mandela: The Authorized Portrait, for which he was an editorial consultant and contributor. Mac Maharaj was a member of Nelson Mandela’s inner circle during the days of resistance in South Africa. In 1977, after spending 12 years in prison on Robben Island, he was appointed secretary of the Internal Political and Reconstruction Department of the African National Congress (ANC).

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Giving Peace a Chance

Matt Mercier — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:30:59 -0500

TUFTS JOURNAL

Giving Peace a Chance
An initiative to solve the intractable conflict in Iraq brought the warring sides together in Helsinki recently for talks-thanks in part to critical Tufts connections

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IRAQ: Moving Forward

Matt Mercier — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:57:52 -0500

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Iraq Moving Forward Conference 2007

Matt Mercier — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Photographs in the above banner are by Matthew Edmundson (Tufts'05, EPIIC'04, EXPOSURE'04-05) and Jacob Silberberg (Tufts'02, EPIIC'01, IGL China Program'02) Introduction Iraq is convulsed with indiscriminate killings and rampant sectarian violence. Whether Iraq is in the throes of a civil war or heading in that direction is moot (and it is really only a debate that is more about the semantics of body counts than a contribution to a fuller understanding of the dynamics that drive the cycles of vengeance and retribution).