Archive 2019

Jul 12
Empower

Your Place, My Place: Investing in the Strength of Nairobi’s Informal Settlements by Geoffrey Tam (F’20)

by tuftsigl

Five major components define a slum household according to UN Habitat: lack of access to an improved water source, lack of access to improved sanitation facilities, lack of sufficient living area, lack of housing durability, and lack of security of tenure.

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Jul 12
ALLIES

China in the Indo-Pacific by Akash Mishra (A’22)

by tuftsigl

This final day of the 2019 ALLIES JRP has brought with it a fair bit of reflection. Over the course of the last sixteen days, Jake, the US Naval Academy team, and I have been able to engage in the culmination of over seven months of preparation to broaden the scope of our knowledge on civil military relations in India.

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Jul 11

Interning at the Institute for the Study of War by Ezgi Yazici (A’20)

by tuftsigl

This summer, I am interning at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington D.C. as a research intern. My research mainly focuses on Turkey, its domestic politics and its foreign policy in Syria. Beyond excited to be working on my own country, I arrived in Washington D.C. in early June, after a month-long stay in Istanbul.

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