Publications

Pardee Center "Issues in Brief" No. 10

Publications | Posted Feb 4, 2010
Program: International Resilience Program

 "A Call for a Resilience Index for Health and Social Systems in Africa"

Boston University, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, ISSUES IN BRIEF  No. 10

 

By Astier M. Almedom

 

This paper is part of the Africa 2060 Project, a Pardee Center program of research, publications and symposia exploring African futures in various aspects related to development on continental and regional scales.

IGL 2010 Calendar

Publications | Posted Jun 10, 2009
Program: Exposure

THE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP \ THINKING BEYOND BOUNDARIES, ACTING ACROSS BORDERS \ FROM JULIUS CAESAR CROSSING THE RUBICON TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS INDICTMENT OF SUDAN PRESIDENT OMAR AL-BASHIR, A COMPENDIUM OF SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIO-POLITICAL EVENTS THAT RESONATE THE CONCERNS AND THEMES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY'S INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND ITS PHOTOJOURNALISM, DOCUMENTARY STUDIES, AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM, EXPOSURE. Read more...

Discourse Volume 2 | Spring 2009

Publications | Posted Jun 3, 2009
Program: 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. The perspectives represented are solely those of the authors.


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BUILD Program Pamphlet

Publications | Posted Apr 9, 2009
Program: Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD)

This pamphlet contains basic information about the BUILD Program: its history, mission, vision, and partners.

NIMEP INSIGHTS: Volume IV, Spring 2009

Publications | Posted Mar 31, 2009
Program: New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)

Welcome to the fourth edition of NIMEP Insights. Now in its sixth year, the New Initiative for Middle East Peace continues on its mission to adapt to the changing nature of world events, as well as the needs of its members and the broader community, in order to face the challenges presented by the 21st century. 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. Read more...

IGL 2009 Calendar

Publications | Posted Oct 15, 2008
Program: Exposure

Exposure | photojournalism | documentary studies | human rights | Exposure is the Institute for Global Leadership’s photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights program. allied with the preeminent photographers of the VII Photo Agency, contact press images and other distinguished photojournalists, exposure is dedicated to mentoring and developing young, knowledgeable photojournalists and documentary filmmakers. Read more...

African Health Sciences

Publications | Posted Jul 30, 2008
Program: International Resilience Program

Special Issue on "Resilience" guest-edited by Astier M. Almedom

Journal of Biosocial Science, July 2004

Publications | Posted Jul 30, 2008
Program: International Resilience Program

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Special Issue on "Mental Well-being in Settings of 'Complex Emergency'" guest-edited by Astier M. Almedom

Copies of all articles in this Volume are available free of charge via Tufts University's Tisch Library for Tufts students and faculty. Other interested readers may contact Astier Almedom to request a copy of a specific article.

Discourse Volume 1 | Spring 2008

Publications | Posted Jun 6, 2008
Program: 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. The perspectives represented are solely those of the authors. Read more...

Rebuild: Kosovo Six Years Later

Publications | Posted Jun 3, 2008
Program: Exposure

Rebuild: Kosovo Six Years Later is the result of a week-long photojournalism workshop held by Gary Knight and Mort Rosenblum in Kosovo from August 20-27, 2005. Gary Knight, founding member of VII Photo Agency and acclaimed documentary photographer, and Mort Rosenblum, world affairs specialist who was Special Correspondent for The Associated Press and editor of the International Herald Tribune, guided and mentored fourteen students from Tufts University and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Read more...

Argentina: From the Ruins of a Dirty War

Publications | Posted Jun 3, 2008
Program: Exposure

Led by Gary Knight and Mort Rosenblum, the EXPOSURE-VII Photo Agency Workshop in Argentina consisted of eight Tufts students and one Tufts staff member. In January 2006, the participants of this weeklong workshop traveled to Buenos Aires to work on photo essays with topics ranging from the city police force to the “Las Madres” -- the mothers whose loved ones were disappeared during the “Dirty War” to the impact of tourism.

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IGL 2007 Calendar

Publications | Posted Dec 1, 2007

THINKING BEYOND BOUNDARIES, ACTING ACROSS BORDERS \ From the death of Socrates to sectarian warfare in Iraq, the 2007 Institute for Global Leadership Calendar is a compendium of significant historical and contemporary socio-political events that resonate the concerns and themes of the Institute for Global Leadership and EXPOSURE. In addition, the calendar features 12 stunning photographs by IGL students and alumni from around the world. Thank you to all that submitted dates and supported this initiative - a special thanks to de.MO publishing for making this calendar a reality. Read more...

NIMEP INSIGHTS: Volume III, Fall 2007

Publications | Posted Sep 15, 2007
Program: New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)

Welcome to the third addition of NIMEP Insights. Now entering its fifth year, the New Initiative for Middle East Peace continues to evolve and grow with the changing nature of world events, as well as the needs of its members and the broader community. This journal advances NIMEP’s goal of creating space for dialogue beyond our doorstep, incorporating the work of alumni and current members as well as one exemplary addition from a leader and NIMEP participant from Georgetown University. Read more...

NIMEP INSIGHTS: Volume II, Spring 2006

Publications | Posted Mar 21, 2006
Program: New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)

Welcome back to NIMEP Insights. We continue to live in interesting times -- this journal is an effort to contribute to an innovative, constructive, and humane dialogue that hopes to lend a framework of possibility to a world besieged by dissonance and complexity. This issue incorporates research from our latest fact-finding missions to Turkey and Egypt as well as individual research trips to Belgium, Iran, Israel and the West Bank, and the United Arab Emirates. NIMEP is proud to present a journal that is representative of our diverse makeup. Read more...

NIMEP INSIGHTS: Volume I, Spring 2005

Publications | Posted May 21, 2005
Program: New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP)

Welcome to the inaugural issue of NIMEP Insights. The New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) is a student-run organization of the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership, in collaboration with the University College. NIMEP is committed to its vision of fostering constructive dialogue and research on the Middle East. Through seminal fact-finding missions to the region, we have forged lasting bonds and relationships. Read more...

Artificial Intelligence - The Tufts Symposium - Oxford CD

Publications | Posted Mar 4, 1995
Program: EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)

A CD-ROM based on video footage of a two-day symposium on artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, and artificial life held at Tufts University in March 1995.