Resources

October 10, 2013

David Rohde is a columnist for Reuters and the Atlantic.  A former reporter for The New York Times, he is a two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of Endgame and, with Kristen Mulvihill, A Rope and a Prayer.

October 8, 2013

Part 1: Peace through Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region
Part 2: Whose Reality Counts: Empowering the Marginalized of the MENA Region

Steven Koltai created and ran the Global Entrepreneurship Program for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a central element of President Obama’s strategy for changing the relationship between the U.S. and Muslim communities around the world.

Curt Rhodes has spent over 30 years working with, and on behalf of, marginalized communities and young people across the Middle East through his work with Questscope with marginalized youth in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and in the region.

Mike Niconchuk, a Tufts alum, works alongside Curt Rhodes at Questscope, as the Emergency Response Coordinator.

October 1, 2013

Charles M. Sennott is the Vice President, Editor-at-Large and co-founder of GlobalPost. An award-winning foreign correspondent with 25 years of experience, Sennott has reported on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 15 countries, including the 2011 revolution in Cairo and the Arab Spring.

September 17, 2013

Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Over the years he has reported from Beirut, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Israel, Sudan, Sarajevo, El Salvador and many other war-torn countries. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Triage, as well as the nonfiction book The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny and, with his brother Jon Lee Anderson, War Zones.  His most recent book is Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East.

September 10, 2013

Justine Hardy combines being a commentator with working at the grassroots in two fields: conflict and the psychological damage of violence. As a writer and journalist, she has reported on, and written about, South Asia for twenty-five years. Simultaneously she set up, and continues to run Healing Kashmir, an organisation in Kashmir, North India that is rehabilitating those suffering from the psychological fallout of conflict.