the Project/IGL Joint Educational Programming

After nearly two years, the strategic partnership between the Project on Justice in Times of Transition and the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University is flourishing and we are now are developing several joint educational initiatives, among them:

• Educational Programming
  Every year the Project hosts a class at Tufts University designed to bring former world leaders and experienced conflict transformation practitioners to campus to share their experience. The first course, The Role of Leadership in Conflict Transformation, explored the role of leaders in conflict transformation and some of the guest lecturers included President Jose Ramos Horta (East Timor), Ambassador Arturo Cruz (Nicaragua), and Ambassador Nicholas Burns (USA).
  
  Learn more about the class "Role of Leadership in Conflict Transformation" and listen to each class session.
  
  During the 2009/2010 academic year PJTT featured a course taught by Ambassador William Luers entitled: US Experiences in Talking with the Enemy. This course examined the changing nature of US efforts to “talk to the enemy” from the 1933 opening relations with the USSR to the current US problems in dealing Iran and North Korea.
  
  The Project on Justice in Times of Transition and the Institute for Global Leadership continues to plan new and innovative classes for the academic year to come.
  
  

• ACCESS: (Access to Experienced Statespersons)
  A joint partnership with the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University that enables Tufts students to access and actively participate in high level international events focusing on diplomacy, conflict transformation and reconciliation.
  
  The ACCESS program, in addition to offering students opportunities to participate in high level international events, also creates joint “INSPIRE Fellowships” at the IGL and Tufts University for members of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition Network. INSPIRE (Institute Scholars and Practitioners in Residence) fellowships are designed to bring leading scholars and practitioners to the Tufts University campus for extended periods for public lectures, classroom lectures, student mentoring and research. During the 2007-08 academic year, the initial IGL/PJTT INSPIRE fellowship was granted to Jose Maria Argueta, the first civilian National Security Advisor of Guatemala after the war. Mr. Argueta worked with eight Tufts students on a research effort looking at the relationship between poverty and national decision-making in Guatemala. This research aims to improve the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) criteria for grant making and will be expanded to include additional country cases such as the Philippines in the coming academic year.
  
  The Project on Justice in Times of Transition along with the Institute for Global Leadership was proud to host Ambassador William Luers as the 2009-2010 INSPIRE Fellow. Ambassador Luers taught a class entitled "US Experiences in Talking with the Enemy" at Tufts University, where, students examined the changing nature of US efforts to "talk to the enemy" from the 1933 opening of relations with the USSR to the current US problems in dealing with Iran and North Korea.
  

For more information on our joint programming, please contact either Ina Breuer at ibreuer@pjtt.org or Sherman Teichman, the Founding Director of the IGL at Sherman.Teichman@tufts.edu. Or visit www.tuftsgloballeadership.org.

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