Inquiry
Inquiry is a global issues simulation program for high school students developed by EPIIC. Inquiry provides a unique opportunity for high school students...
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Inquiry
Inquiry is a global issues simulation program for high school students developed by EPIIC. Inquiry provides a unique opportunity for high school students from across the country to participate in a weekend-long intellectual and challenging simulation centered on a pertinent international or domestic issue. Inquiry creates a forum for young students to engage deeply with compelling issues through intensive study, role-play, and mentorship by Institute students studying the topic in-depth. Inquiry also organizes a yearly investigative trip, typically during the winter intersession, to the country or region of interest. The Inquiry simulation and trip prepare students for global citizenship and develop leadership skills by emphasizing a cooperative approach to achieving progress on complex problems. In the past 20 years, more than 4,800 high school students and 750 Tufts students have participated in the program.
Past Inquiry Simulations:
2018 The Future Nuclear Imperative
2017 Syria: The Future
2016 Europe: Facing an Uncertain Future
2015 Russia's Future with Post-Soviet States
2014 Democracy and Sectarianism in the Middle East and North Africa: Iraq
2013 Conference on the Next Big One: Preparing for a Global Pandemic
2012 Confronting Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
2011 The Global Nuclear Future
2010 Security and Stability in South Asia
2009 Sustainable Cities
2008 Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
2007 Global Crises
2006 The Politics of Fear in Asia
2005 The World's Oceans: Security, Economics, and Environment
2004 The United States' Role in the Middle East
2003 African Sovereignty, African Perspectives
2002 Inequities Within the Americas
2001 The 2001 Global Race and Class Policy Initiative
2000 From Greece to Globalism: The Future of the International Olympic Movement
1999 The Convention on Crime and Corruption in Europe and the Soviet Successor States
1998 EXODUS and EXILE: Refugees, Migration, and Global Security
1997 The Future of Democracy in Latin America
1996 Religion, Politics and Society in North Africa
1995 The Future of the Asia-Pacific Region
1994 Negotiations on the Future of the Former Yugoslavia
1993 Regional Economic Development and Cooperation in a Post-Apartheid Southern Africa
1992 Water Politics in the Middle East
Regularly Participating Schools:
Boston Latin Academy (Boston, MA)
Broad Ripple High School (Indianapolis, IN)
Columbia Preparatory School (New York, NY)
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (Chicago, IL)
Dover Sherborn High School (Dover, MA)
El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice (Brooklyn, NY)
John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science (Boston, MA)
Little Village High School (Chicago, IL)
Medford High School (Medford, MA)
Nichols School (Albany, NY)
Pace Academy (Atlanta, GA)
Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, NH)
Stuyvesant High School (New York, NY)
Program At-a-Glance
Program Size
=150/yr
Year Founded
1992
Locations
Inquiry Projects & Events
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Inquiry 2018: The Future Nuclear Imperative
Nine countries currently control at least 15,000 nuclear weapons. During the Cold War, the superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million “Little Boys”, the atom...
Inquiry Conference 2017
Inquiry is the Institute’s global issues program for high school students, creating a forum for students to engage deeply with compelling issues through intensive study, role-play, and mentorship b...
Inquiry 2019: The Frontlines of Migration
This year’s Inquiry program focused on cities as the frontlines of the opportunities and challenges of mass migration movements. While decision-making on migration policies is focused at national ...
Inquiry Conference 2019
The delegations present their conclusions on the simulation.
Rachel Brown (EPIIC’08, A’10) delivered the Inquiry 2019 Keynote Address on “Defusing Hate, Counteracting Nativism and Xenophobia.”
EPIIC students assisted in the Inquiry simulation by leading delegations and facilitating discussion.
Inquiry delegates represented their respective cities at committee meetings to advocate for migration policies that would best improve their city’s wellbeing.
The students separate into committee meetings.
Inquiry delegates gave their opening remarks to present their city’s current standing on migration, as well as any fears or aspirations their city wished to express before the simulation.
IGL director Abi Williams gives the Hunter Farnham Inquiry Memorial Lecture on “Migration in a Turbulent World”.
Inquiry students listen intently to professor Williams’ lecture.
The Inquiry students are separated into their respective delegations.
The Inquiry delegations give their opening statements on the challenges that cities face while being on the frontline of the current migration wave.
The Inquiry students listen to members of the New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) presenting their research from their Fact-finding trip to Morocco.
Students get in line to ask questions to Rachel Brown (EPIIC’08, A’10) about her Keynote Address on “Defusing Hate, Counteracting Nativism and Xenophobia.”
The Inquiry delegations get ready to present their opening statements.
A member of the inquiry delegation presents her opening statement to the other delegations and EPIIC students.
The inquiry students come from more than 10 different schools. They are very excited to participate in the simulation.
One of the inquiry delegations gives their closing plenary.
After the opening statements, the delegations split up in committee meetings.
In these meetings the students discuss the challenges that cities face as they sit on the frontlines of the migration wave.