Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES)

“Civilian participation is both necessary to making military operations successful and to relieving stress on the men and women of our armed services… Indeed, having robust civilian capabilities available could make it less likely that military force will have to be used in the first place.”
-Secretary Gates, Kansas State University, 26 Nov 2007

Boryana Damyanova Award for Corporate Social Responsibility

This annual Award is given in honor of EPIIC's wonderful student Boryana Damyanova of Bulgaria (1983-2005), whose passion and professional aspirations centered around the complex issues of capitalism, integrity, and corporate citizenship and accountability.

Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD)

Check out the documentaries BUILD produced for the No Alcanza forum!  Click here

Want to know more about the history of Santa Anita la Union?  Take a look at our new audio slideshow here

BUILD Mission Statement:

Discourse

Discourse provides an inclusive platform for reasoned discussion and prescriptive analysis of issues of both international and domestic concern, while also including poetry, fiction, art and photography to illuminate the human condition. Its emphasis is on exploring a diversity of thought and perspectives from students, scholars, and practitioners. The purpose of Discourse is to provide an open forum for discussion of contemporary dilemmas, not as a vehicle with any specific political or intellectual agenda.

Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award/Series

The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was established in 1993 to honor Jean Mayer, by challenging and inspiring our students and the community, by bringing to Tufts distinguished scholars and practitioners whose moral courage, personal integrity, and passion for scholarship resonated his dictum that

"Scholarship, research and teaching must be dedicated to solving the most pressing problems facing the world."

See this years Recipients

Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC)

EPIIC is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program. Through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.

Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship

The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship educates, mentors, guides and motivates aspiring social entrepreneurs.  Empower is a program for Tufts University undergraduate and graduate students to engage in practical, experiential learning for social entrepreneurship.

Engineers Without Borders (EWB)

A collaboration with the School of Engineering, the mission of the Tufts Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is to design sustainable development projects for communities around the world and to engage students, faculty and the campus in the process. The group has worked on projects in Tibet, Ecuador, and El Salvador.

You may also visit EWB-USA here

EPIIC Archives

This is a comprehensive list of the content from the past 24 years here at the Institute. This page is currently under construction - please do not link to it as it is subject to change. Thank you - Matt Mercier | Multimedia Coordinator

Exposure

Exposure is the Institute for Global Leadership’s photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights program. Dedicated to mentoring and developing young, knowledgeable photojournalists and documentary filmmakers, it is allied with the preeminent photographers of the VII Photo Agency, Contact Press, and other distinguished journalists.

Global Research Projects, Internships, and Conferences

Students are encouraged to conduct original, policy-oriented research and projects that allow them to test their theories and assumptions on the ground. Since 1986, more than 650 students have conducted research or participated in an international internship in more than 70 countries. These projects often develop into significant projects and senior honors theses.

Inquiry

Information on the 2009-2010 Simulation here

Inquiry, a global issues simulation program, was developed in 1991 by the EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) program at Tufts University. It is now a program of the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership. Currently in its 15th year, Inquiry provides a unique opportunity for high school students to participate in an intellectual and challenging simulation regarding pertinent international issues.

Institute Scholars and Practicioners in Residence (INSPIRE)

This program brings scholars and practitioners to campus for public lectures, classroom lectures and research and career advising.

International Resilience Program

Resilience is a multi-dimensional construct defined as the capacity of individuals, families, communities, systems and institutions to anticipate, withstand and/or judiciously engage with catastrophic events and/or experiences, actively making meaning out of adversity, with the goal of maintaining ‘normal’ function without fundamentally losing their identity. This definition evolved from many years of interdisciplinary research, scholarship and learning involving iterative engagement with people, primary and secondary d

Iran Dialogue Initiative (IDI)

Mission
IDI’s mission is to facilitate educational dialogue and exchange between Tufts University students and students at the School for International Relations (SIR) in Tehran. This is a non-polemical and non-political initiative. In 2004, IDI organized the first official U.S. university visit to Iran since the 1979 revolution, where ten Tufts students spent two weeks traveling through Iran and meeting with their peers at SIR as well as at Mofid, a religious university in Qom.

Why Iran: Rationale

New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)

NIMEP is a non-polemical student think-tank and outreach initiative aimed at finding progressive solutions to the historic conflicts in the Middle East. NIMEP provides a forum for productive dialogue, scholarship, and exploration of the region. This initiative is committed to contributing to future leadership and to inspiring others to realize the powerful results such a model of thinking and action can produce.

Poverty and Power Research Initiative

In a world with substantial partnership and commitment from the international community to eradicate global poverty, it appears antithetical that, in many countries, levels of poverty remain stagnant or are worsening. Therefore, PPRI is a policy-oriented student research initiative that investigates the hypothesis that poverty is often a product of distorted national governance structures where decision making powers are unequally distributed within a society.

RESPE: Haiti Project

Mission: Our mission is to collaborate with the rural Haitian community of Balan in support of its development initiatives in addition to raising awareness on campus and in the local Boston area about issues facing rural Haitians.

Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Public Policy Initiative

The Bendetson Public Diplomacy Initiative is an effort to bring key global policymakers and officials to Tufts to share their experiences and perspectives with students. It also brings these policymakers and officials together to discuss their shared experiences, such as the program on “Iraq: Moving Forward” in 2007, which explored next steps in Iraq with participants from Iraq, South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Guatemala

Synaptic Scholars

Student Program

Tufts Energy Forum

Announcement of Name Change: We are excited to announce that the Tufts Energy Security Initiative has changed its name to the Tufts Energy Forum. Although ESI was originally founded in a security-centered context, the Institute for Global Leadership's 2005 EPIIC Oil and Water Colloquium, the group has since evolved and expanded to address a wide range of energy topics.

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IGL Program

Tufts Initiative for Leadership and International Perspective (TILIP)

In 1998, Tufts University, in cooperation with Peking University (Beijing), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong, began this unique leadership program. The program fosters cross-cultural team building through intensive, intellectual inquiry and practical study. Initially, students from all four universities spent the summers in Hong Kong, working in pairs at specifically designed internships and attending the Leadership Lecture Series and a weekly seminar.

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IGL Program

Voices from the Field

For the last seven years, the IGL has brought back to campus mid-career alumni (the Voices) who are presently working in the fields of nation building, complex humanitarian emergencies, human rights, U.N. peacekeeping, refugee assistance, preventative diplomacy, conflict resolution, and development assistance. They engage in several days of intense round-table conversation and a full day of undergraduate advising.

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