Program | Schedule
Future Flashpoints
Sami al-Faraj, Founder and Director, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Nick Birnback, Chief, Public Information, United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) Christian Parenti, Author, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Editor-in-Chief, International Security
Col. Ferdinand Safari, Defense Attache, Rwandan Embassy
John P Williams, Program Manager, Asymmetric and Irregular Threats, The Johns Hopkins University
Post-Conflict Challenges and Building Peaceful Societies
Mowaffak al-Rubaie, former National Security Advisor, Iraq (under the Coalition Provisional Authority); former MP, Iraq's Council of Representatives (Parliament)
Susan Bissell, Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation; Research Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Senior Advisor, African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan
Sahana Dharmapuri, former Gender Advisor on conflict and complex emergency situations, Office of Women in Development, USAID; Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
Zainab Salbi, Founder and President, Women for Women International*
Ervin Staub, Author, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism; Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Student Presentation:
EPIIC Uganda Group
Health Care Delivery Systems: Bringing Care Where It's Needed Most
David Chiriboga, former Minister of Health, Ecuador; former President, Health Council of the Union of South American Nations.
Lachlan Forrow, Director of Ethics Programs and Director of Palliative Care Programs, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
Anne Goldfeld, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School
of Public Health
Bhaswati Goswami, Communications Officer and Program Management Unit for boat clinics, Centre for North East Studies
Jean Kagubare, Principal Technical Advisor, Management Sciences for Health; former Director, Health Planning Department, Rwanda
Ali Sindi, Minister for Planning, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq; former Deputy Minister of Health and Social Affairs; former Head, Health Sector Committee, UN Oil for Food Program
Student presentations
Kosovo
Kerala
Cambodia
Rwanda
Colombia
New Technologies at the Juncture of Health and Security
Ira M. Herman, Professor and Director, Tufts Center for Innovations in Wound Healing
Daphne Moffett, Deputy Director, Health Systems Reconstruction Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David Walt, Robinson Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Walt Lab, Tufts University
Keynote Address: American Policy and the Arab Revolutions
R. Nicholas Burns | Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008, he was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program; Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Border Crossings: Refugees, Jihadists, Money, and Arms
- Michaël Béchir Ayari | Senior Analyst, Tunisia, International Crisis Group
- BG Rami Ben Efraim | Special Assistant, J5 Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; former Commander, Ramat David AFB
- Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
- Ibrahim Warde | Author, The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror; Consultant and Adjunct Professor of International Business, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- Moderated by Iris Levine, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Elizabeth Robinson, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
- Umar Shareef, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members Adrienne Larson and Tory Martin, Poverty and Power Research Initiative Co-Chairs, Institute for Global Leadership
Education, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
- Perihan AbouZeid | Co-Founder and CEO, Qabila Media Productions, Egypt; Legatum Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Junaid K. Ahmad | Director, Sustainable Development Unit Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
- Inger Andersen | Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank
- Robert Springborg | Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
- Muthanna Khreisat | Jordan Country Director, Questscope
- Moderated by Samantha Lund, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Bradley Friedman and Adam Nagy, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Bahar Ostadan and Katherine Saviano, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
Keynote Address: Russia and Glboal Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy
• Thomas Pickering, Career Ambassador; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Political Engagement: Civil Society, Youth, and Dissent
• Samuel Greene, Head, King's Global Institutes and Director, King's Russia Institute, King's College, London
• Roman Lunkin, Director, Institute for Religion and Law; Leading Institute Fellow, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Marya Rozanova, Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Socio-Cultural Integration and Associate Professor, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, St. Petersburg; Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
Sanctioned Split? Russia and the European Union
• R. Bruce Hitchner, Professor of Classics and International Relations and Director, Peace & Justice Studies Program, Tufts University; Chair, Dayton Peace Accords Project
• Angela Stent, Professor of Government and Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University; Author, The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century
• Vasily Zharkov, Director, Political Science and International Relations Programme, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Columnist, Novaya Gazeta
Film Screening: Red Army
Film Screening of "Red Army," 8pm, Somerville Theater, Davis Square
Red Army is an inspiring story about the Cold War played out on the hockey rink, and a man who stood up to a powerful system and paved the way for change for generations of Russians. Trailer: http://sonyclassics.com/
Brought to you thanks to the efforts of Board Member David Cuttino and Mindy Hanneman from MPAA.
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.