Tufts University

Institute for Global Leadership

Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD)

Recent News

Peace and Development in a Tumultuous Guatemala

Program News | Posted Nov 6, 2009

“Tejiendo los lienzos del desarrollo: Peace and Development in a Tumultuous Guatemala” is a faculty-student collaborative exhibition out of the Tufts University Anthropology Department and the student-let program, BUILD out of the Institute for Global Leadership.

BUILD wins Davis 100 Projects for Peace competition!

Program News | Posted Feb 7, 2009

On Friday, February 6, BUILD was informed that it's application had been selected for the 100 Projects for Peace Prize of Tufts University. Prize winners receive $10,000 towards a project designed to promote Peace. The Projects for Peace Website describes the mission of the contest:

Topsfield teen plays key role helping Guatemalan farm

IGL News | Posted Jan 5, 2009

By Mike Stucka
Staff Writer

TOPSFIELD — Whether he's trying to renegotiate a loan with a foreign government or bring dozens of former guerrilla soldiers up to economic self-sufficiency, Mike Niconchuk's life is turning out to be, well, a bit revolutionary.

Niconchuk, a 19-year-old Topsfield native, has found himself in some unusual positions.