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.

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)

BUILD Mission Statement:

Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD) is an interdisciplinary student-led program of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. BUILD seeks to educate and immerse students in the theory and practice of sustainable development by partnering with rural communities in the developing world to research and implement sustainable initiatives for human, 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)

Information about the 2009 EPIIC International Symposium here

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

The Empower Program offers a platform for undergraduate and graduate students to engage in practical, experiential learning to complement their studies and make a positive social impact. Students will participate in internships, research, or projects of their own design. In addition, they will join a network at Tufts, which encourages collaboration, mentorship, and the promotion of social entrepreneurship on campus.

The objective of Empower is to help educate, mentor, guide and motivate future social entrepreneurs, defining social entrepreneurship as activities that benefit humankind.

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

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.

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.

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.