Cause for War? Assessing the Bush Administration's Case ...
Cause for War? Assessing the Bush Administration's Case Against Iraq " ...
09/26/2002 7:00 PM 34"101Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT"CIS Program on Political Economy and Technology Policy; ; Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq ; ; Stephen Walt, Robert and ...
Challenges in Nation Building
Challenges in Nation Building
09/29/2009 2:30 PM 10"250President José Ramos"Horta, President, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDescription: At times humorous and defiant, JoséRamos"Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East ...
Chris Moses
Chris Moses
Chris Moses ('10 Course 9) was awarded a Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship and participated in the Public Service Fellowship and Grants programs to continue his work with the telemedicine-based health care delivery system called Sana (formerly MocaMobile). Chris is traveling to Manila this ...
Ethics and Enlightened Leadership
Ethics and Enlightened Leadership
04/30/2009 2:00 PM KresgeHis Holiness The Dalai LamaDescription: His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at an inaugural event for a new institute in his name, the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He tempered his provocative ideas about promoting ethics in a secular society ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality ...
02/09/2011 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallKhalea Robinson, '11; Pierre Fuller, 'GDescription: In their brief remarks honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two students strike the theme of collaboration. They touch on the importance of humility and listening to ...
Grace Lee & Shammi Quddus
Grace Lee & Shammi Quddus
Grace Lee ('10 Course 7) was the President of the MIT chapter of Habitat for Humanity (HFH). With the help of Public Service Grants, Grace Lee and MIT Habitat for Humanity volunteers have worked to provide Habitat families typically living in inadequate shelters with good homes. As HFH ...
Human Rights and Politics in Israel"Palestine
Human Rights and Politics in Israel"Palestine
10/22/2007 6:30 PM 66"110Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Anat Biletzki, Professor of Philosophy, Tel Aviv UniversityDescription: Human rights are central to the fraught politics between Israelis and Palestinians, these two panelists argue. ...
Institutions vs. People: Will the Species Self"Destruct?
Institutions vs. People: Will the Species Self"Destruct?
04/10/2001 Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITAbout the Speaker(s): ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. A brief sampling of his prolific ...
Nuclear Technology in a Changing World: Have We Reached a ...
Nuclear Technology in a Changing World: Have We Reached a Turning Point?
11/03/2005 3:30 PM Stata 123Mohamed ElBaradei, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize; Director General, International Atomic Energy AgencyDescription: We stand at a crossroads, states Mohamed ElBaradei: We can either employ nuclear energy to achieve global security, or watch nuclear ...
Peace Meals
Peace Meals
10/19/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Anna Badkhen, Author, "Peace Meals"; Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor in Political ScienceDescription: While breaking bread around the world with friends and families suffering through war and deprivation, Anna Badkhen managed to compile not just a vivid chronicle ...
Technology Day 1995 - "War, Technology, Peace and Change"
Technology Day 1995 - "War, Technology, Peace and Change"
MIT's 1995 Technology Day takes place on June 16, 1995 on the theme "War, Technology, Peace and Change." A fly-by of six vintage World War II airplanes led by a B-25, intended as a tribute to the sacrifices of MIT community members in wartime service, concludes the ...
The 2012 *General Jimmy Doolittle Award Dinner
The 2012 *General Jimmy Doolittle Award Dinner
Doolittle Award Each year, SSP honors the memory of General “Jimmy” Doolittle, American war hero, aviation pioneer, and MIT graduate (SM ’24 and PhD ’25) with an awards lecture on a topic of aviation. 2012 General Jimmy Doolittle Award Dinner On ...
The Philosophy of Conflict Resolution
The Philosophy of Conflict Resolution
10/15/2001 10"250John Hume, 1998 Laureate for PeaceHost(s): Office of the President, Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture Series
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
09/23/2009 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumJulia Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow For Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Wayne Smith, Senior Fellow and Director of the Cuba Program, Center for International PolicyDescription: To the dismay of ...
The Neuroscience of Conflict
World Pieces: The Neuroscience of Conflict
A study of conflict resolution through neuroscience with Emile Bruneau and Rebecca Saxe. By Kenrick Vezina, Gillian Conahan and Emily Ruppel.