Program | Schedule
Resource Wars and the Changing Climate of Conflict
Cullen Hendrix, Assistant Professor of Government, College of William and Mary; Author, “Climate Change, Rainfall, and Social Conflict in Africa”*
Abbas Maleki, Associate Professor of Energy Policy, MIT
William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Peter Rosenblum, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Peter Rosenblum, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Money, Munitions, and Markets: The Perpetuation of Conflict
Mark Baillie, King's College, London, War Studies Dept.; Consultant, AKE Ltd
Jack Blum, Attorney, specializing in issues of money laundering, financial crime, and international tax evasion; former Investigator, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Angelica Duran Martinez, PhD Candidate, Brown University; Co-author, "Does illegality breed violence?: Drug trafficking and state-sponsored protection rackets"
Andrew Feinstein, Author, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade; Founding Director, Corruption Watch*
Andrew Kain, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AKE; former Member and Instructor, Special Air Service Regiment, United Kingdom
Peter Rosenblum, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Jake Sherman, Deputy Director for Programs (Conflict), Center for International Cooperation, New York University*
Dick Simon, Co-founder, Peace Action Network, Young Presidents’ Organization; Chair, Presidents Action Network Chapter, World Presidents’ Organization (WPO) (PAN)
The Media and Warfare
Daniel Bennett, War Studies Department, King’s College, London; Author, Reporting War, a blog for the Frontline Club
Nick Birnback, Chief, Public Information, United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS)
Carlotta Gall, Senior Reporter for Afghanistan/Pakistan, The New York Times; Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University
Jeff Howe, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Northeastern University; Author, Crowdsourcing: How the Power of Crowds Is Driving the Future of Business*
Gary Knight, Photojournalist; Co-founder, VII Photo Agency; Author, Evidence: The Case Against Milosevic; Founding Director, Program on Narrative and Documentary Practice, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor and Head, Camera Culture Research Group, MIT Media Lab*
Presentation of Photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s work as compiled by Photojournalist Christopher Anderson
A State of Well-Being: Mental Health and Security
Barbara Lopes Cardozo, Founding Member, Doctors Without Borders – Holland; Psychiatric Epidemiologist, International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Justine Hardy, Founder, Healing Kashmir
Giuseppe Raviola, Director, Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Director of Mental Health, Partners In Health
Elizabeth Herman (A'10), Photojournalist; documentary project: "A Woman's War"
Zach Iscol, Executive Director and Chairman, Headstrong Project
Violence: A Global Public Health Challenge
Kassam Dawood, former National Security Adviser, Iraq
Gregg Nakano, former Development Outreach Coordinator, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; former Military Liaison Officer, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Merrill Singer, Professor of Anthropology and Public Health, University of Connecticut
Richard Sollom, Deputy Director at Physicians for Human Rights
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: How Significant a Threat?
Hillel W Cohen, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Author, The Coming Plague
Amb. Bonnie Jenkins, Coordinator for Threat Reduction Program, US Department of State
Ali Khan, Director of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
Sam R. Telford III, Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
Health and Human Rights in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Ezra Barzilay, Lead Epidemiologist, Health Systems Reconstruction Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Commander, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Daniel Holmberg, Senior Humanitarian Adviser, Sudan, USAID
Brigadier General Yitshak Kreiss, Surgeon General, Israel
Jennifer Leaning, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Richard Sollom, Deputy Director at Physicians for Human Rights
Domestic Politics in the Gulf: Regional Impact
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Frederic Wehrey | Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprising
Matar Ebrahim Matar | Scholar at Risk, Bahrain; Former Member of Parliament with the al-Wefaq Political Party, resigned in protest of government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors; Recipient, 2011 Leaders of Democracy Award, Project on Middle East Democracy
Presentation of the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy by Lilly Tahmasebi '17, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Presentation of Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy
Presentation of Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy to Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait
Vying for Influence: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Nawaf Obaid | Visiting Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Special Advisor for National Security Affairs to Prince Turki Al Faisal, Saudi Arabia
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Wu Bingbing | Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Culture, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Moderated by Ayesha Forbes '15, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
International Institutions and Intervention
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Richard Atwood | Director of Research and future Director of Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
Eileen Babbitt | Professor of Practice of International Conflict Management, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Michael Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Duncan Pickard | Nonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East; Constitutional Adviser, Democracy Reporting International
Mark Katz | Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University; Author, “Moscow’s Middle East Policy” (inFocus Quarterly, 2014)
Hugh Roberts | Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University; former Director, North Africa Project, International Crisis Group
Moderated by Elissa Miller '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Expert-led Discussions/Breakout Sessions
Political Islam
Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi | Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University
Elizabeth Nugent | PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Robert P. Parks | Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (American Institute for Maghrib Studies)
State of the State
Nimrod Hurvitz | Professor of Middle East History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Jonathan Shimshoni | Retired Battalion and Brigade Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; Author, Israel and Conventional Deterrence
Media
Ahmed Benchemsi | Visiting Scholar, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Stanford University; Founding Publisher and Editor, TelQuel (French) and Nishan (Arabic)
Amahl Bishara | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University; Author, “New Media and Political Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Assembling Media Worlds and Cultivating Networks of Care”
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist
Mourad Gargoum | Former Head, Media Office, National Council for Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Libya
Rule of Law & Human Rights
Enes Aldsrey | Head, Documenting and Monitoring Department, Benghazi Office, National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Sherif Mansour | Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists; former Senior Program Officer, Freedom House
Iran and Nuclear Proliferation
Ariel Levite | Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Principal Deputy Director General for policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Trauma and Resilience
Justine Hardy | Mental Trauma Specialist; Writer
Entrepreneurship
Gideon Argov | Founder, Shlomo Argov Fellows, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel; Advisory Director, Berkshire Partners
Dick Simon | Chair and Co-Founder, Peace Action Network, Young Presidents’ Organization
Terrorism
Aaron Zelin | Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, King’s College of London
Refugees
Mike Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Women
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh | Scholar at Risk, Iran; Founder, Meydaan Zanan (Women’s Field); former Editor in Chief, Farzaneh Journal; Editor and Chief Researcher, Alternative National Report on Women’s Status in Iran
Dalia Ziada | Executive Director, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Israel-Palestine
Robert Blecher | Deputy Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group
Mouin Rabbani | Head, Programme in the Middle East, Conflict Management Initiative
Gulf politics
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Lebanon
Sahar Atrache | Lebanon Analyst, International Crisis Group
Alex Taylor | Former Reporter and International Editor, The Daily Star, Beirut; MALD Candidate, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Unraveling of Syria
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist, contributing to Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio and other major media outlets
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Denis Sullivan | Professor of Political Science and Director, Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, Northeastern University
Aaron Zelin | Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, King’s College of London
Radwan Ziadeh | Scholar at Risk, Syria; Recipient, 2009 Academic Freedom Award, Middle East Studies Association; Senior Fellow, United States Institute for Peace; Founder and Director, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies
Irina Zvyagelskaya | Vice-President, Centre for Strategic and Political Studies, Russia; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Bruna Gaspar '16, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Moderated by Sam Rock '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Ruling Russia: Governance in the 21st Century
• Ilya Ponomarev, Member of Russian Parliament, State Duma; Chairman of Innovation and Venture Capital Subcommittee, Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee; one of the leaders of the left flank of Russian politics
• Thomas F Remington, Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science, Emory University; Author, Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective and The Politics of Inequality in Russia
• Anna Vassilieva, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Author, The Russian Émigré Press on Democracy in Russia, 1980-1990s, Co-author, Influence on Russian Culture on Russian Negotiating Style; Co-editor, Russia and East Asia: Informal and Gradual Integration, Crossing National Borders
Student Presentation: Grigory Khakimov, EPIIC Colloquium Member; Junior, majoring in International Relations with a thematic concentration on Europe and the Former Soviet Union; Former Member, Russian Democratic Party Yabloko
Beyond the Barrel: The Russian Economy
• Ari Axelrod, Senior Fellow, Council on Emerging Market Enterprises, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Partner, Banyan Family Business Advisors
• Birgit Hansl, Lead Economist for the Russian Federation and Country Sector Coordinator in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network in the Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
• Matthew Murray, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce
• Stephan Vitvitsky, International Economist, Office of Europe and Eurasia - US Treasury
Security Strategy: Military Reform and Nuclear Capability
• Lt. Gen Arlen Jameson (USAF, ret.), Former Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command; Vice Chairman, Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
• Michael Kofman, Russia/Eurasia Security and Defense Public Policy Scholar, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, Adviser for military to military engagements for senior officers at National Defense University
• Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army retired), Director, Defense and Intelligence Projects at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Svetlana Savranskaya, Director, Cooperative Projects with Russia and Editor, Russian and East Bloc Archival Documents Database, National Security Archive
• Major General Pavel Zolotarev (Russian Armed Forces, ret.), Deputy Director, Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (confirmed in principle)
Expert-led, Small-group Discussions
Geopolitics: Russia and the Post-Soviet Sphere
• Maxim Bratersky, Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Igor Istomin, Lecturer, Department of Applied Analysis of International Crises, MGIMO; Executive Editor, International Trends
• Carol R. Saivetz, Research Fellow, Security Studies Program, MIT; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
• Shorena Shaverdashvili (EPIIC’99), Partner and Editor, Liberali, Georgia
• Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
• Maxim Suchkov, Fellow, Institute for Strategic Studies, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University
• Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, Moscow; served in the Russian Armed Forces, 1972-93
Callouts
ALLIES
The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations.
TILIP
The Tufts Initiative for International Leadership and Perspective (TILIP) is a program that seeks to foster cross-cultural team building through intensive, intellectual inquiry and practical study.
[EXPOSURE]
[EXPOSURE] is the Institute for Global Leadership's undergraduate-led program for photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights.