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on Foreign Relations with Visiting Scholar Manjeet
Kripliani. The Tufts students organized a broad range
of sight-seeing as well, including a tour of the United
Nations, visiting Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty,
visiting many of New York City’s museums, and walking
the Freedom Trail in Boston. The students also spent a
day at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, marking
the seventh year of the USMA’s collaboration with TILIP.
INSPIRE
This year’s INSPIRE Practitioner-in-Residence was Sanjoy Hazarika. Sanjoy is an old friend of the Institute’s, having first
participated in EPIIC’s 1992 symposium on “International Security: The Environmental Dimension.”
Sanjoy is one of India’s most distinguished polymaths. He is the former
award-winning correspondent for the New York Times, a member of India’s
National Security Advisory Board, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
(AFSPA) Review Committee, and the National Council of the Indian Council
of Social Science Research (ICSSR). He is the Managing Trustee for the
Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES), a columnist for
The Statesman, and a visiting Professor at the Centre for Policy Research.
He has written extensively on the North east and made documentary
films about the region and the neighborhood where he travels, including
Tibet, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. He is acknowledged as a
specialist on migration and his books include Bhopal: The Lesson of a Tragedy (1988); Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War
and Peace from India’s North East (1994), and Rites of Passage: Border Crossings, Imagined Homelands, India’s East and
Bangladesh (2000).
During his residency, Sanjoy consulted with a wide range of programs including the Global Health Division of the Tufts
University School of Medicine; Engineers without Borders; the Water, System, Science, and Society Program; EPIIC, and TILIP.
Sanjoy was integral to the success of TILIP’s trip to India, organizing the group’s meetings in Delhi with government officials
and leading journalists and businessmen, and he also facilitated student research projects in Assam and Nagaland.
Voices from the Field
For the sixth year, the IGL brought to campus a group of distinguished experts and
Tufts alumni to participate in its Voices from the Field program. These “Voices”
are presently working or have significant experience in the fields of nation
building, complex humanitarian emergencies, military security, human rights, U.N.
peacekeeping, refugee assistance, conflict resolution, and development assistance.
The theme of this year’s Voices discussions was “The Accountability of NGOs in the
Transition from Relief to Development.” The topics that were addressed included:
“The Accountability of NGOs in the Field”, “Local Involvement: When, How, and to
What Degree?”, “Leaving the Scene: Minimizing Dependency”, and “Balancing Emergency Relief and Long-Term Development
Goals”. The Voices also participated in the EPIIC symposium.
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