Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES)

The objective of ALLIES is to expand and integrate the ongoing relationship between the Institute for Global Leadership and the military's educational institutions. ALLIES fosters dialogue, encourages joint research opportunities, creates activities that bring together students at private liberal universities and future military officers, and educates about the role of the U.S. military at home and abroad.

Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD)

Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD) is a year-round interdisciplinary student program that works with rural communities in Central America to achieve sustainable solutions for social and economic development.

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."

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: Encouraging Social Entrepreneurship

Tufts University alumni, Angelos Metaxa (A'91) and Javier Macaya (A'91), joined forces to catalyze and found Empower at Tufts University's Institute for Global Leadership to establish a learning and practical experience platform to engage Tufts students in social entrepreneurship aimed at poverty alleviation.

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.

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

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 (interdisciplinary) Resilience (research) & Policy/practice (IRP)

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, pr

Iran Dialogue Initiative (IDI)

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.

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.

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

The program creates a framework in which intellectual juxtapositions, critical thinking and self-directed explorations are fully realized. Synaptic Scholars is a leadership program, meant to provide a forum for students to take risks, pursue passions, and challenge assumptions in an intimate, supportive and collaborative environment. It is designed to cultivate a strong sense of accountability and responsibility, while encouraging scholars to enrich the University’s intellectual life and programming.

Mission Statement

Tufts Energy Security Initiative (ESI)

The Energy Security Initiative (ESI) was born out of the Institute for Global Leadership's EPIIC Oil and Water Colloquium in 2005. The group serves as a forum for discussion of all issues related to energy, and allows students to conduct original, international research on various energy topics. Through research, discussion and events, the group address issues such as peak oil, climate change, the global food crisis, emerging energy technologies, government policies, international treaties, resource conflict, as well as many other topics.

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 and internships with dynamic companies and organizations. Students from all four universities spend the summer in Hong Kong, working in pairs at specifically designed internships and attending the Leadership Lecture Series and a weekly seminar.

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.