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Summer 2006 Highlights

  • » Jebsen Center Researcher Joshua Gleis to Israel - Jebsen Center Researcher Joshua Gleis traveled to Israel this summer to work on his research project. During this time he met with the former Chief of Staff of the IDF and former Cabinet Minister Amnon Lipkin Shahak. Additionally, Joshua conducted interviews with former and current members of Israel’s intelligence, military and political braches.
  • » Jebsen Center Researcher and Embassy Intern Brings the Land of 10,000 American Lakes to Gori American Corner - On August 14, 2006, Colleen Traughber, a summer intern in the Political/Economic Section of the Embassy of the United States Georgia, gave a presentation at the America Corner in Gori on "Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Lakes. Read More »
  • » MIPT Terrorism Knowledge base quotes BG (Ret) Russell D. Howard - BG (Ret) Russell D. Howard was quoted in MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base, a comprehensive databank of global terrorist incidents and organizations regarding the investigation into the London jetliner bombing plot. Read More »
  • » Jebsen Center Researcher Assaf Moghadam Featured Guest on Minnesota Public Radio - On August 14, 2006 Jebsen Center Researcher Assaf Moghadam was a featured guest at Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning show with. Kerri Miller. The call-in show focused on Al Qaeda, suicide attacks, and the globalization of terrorism. Read More »
  • » The Tufts University website highlight the Tufts New Initiative for Middle East Peace - The Tufts University website highlighted on their home page the Tufts New Initiative for Middle East Peace. The initiative was created as an avenue for students to study Middle East affairs in depth. Among the students highlighted in the article is Fletcher student, Jebsen Center Researcher, and NIMEP co-founder Matan Chorev. "We got together because of our interests in the region, but also because we had a joint frustration with the nature of dialogue that was taking place on our campus and campuses across the country," says Chorev, who is currently entering his second year at The Fletcher School. "At a time when critical dialogue was so necessary, most interested parties were not talking to one another, and when they were, it was very combative and polemic." Read more »
  • » Counterinsurgency, by the Book - On August 7th the New York Times published Counterinsurgency, by the Book, an op-ed piece co-authored by Jebsen Center Advisor Dr. Richard Shultz and his Research Associate for the International Security Studies Program Andrea Dew. Read More »
  • » Congratulations to Jebsen Center Researcher Assaf Moghadam - Assaf was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism aims to shed a fresh look on the origins and implications of conflict in the 21st Century and to illuminate new methods and solutions to countering the growth of escalation of contemporary sub-state violence. Read More »
  • » Lorenzo Vidino address a full house at The Danish Institute for International Studies - The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), the Department of Conflict and Security Studies hosted a lecture by Lorenzo Vidino. Lorenzo is both a Fletcher Student and a recognized expert on terrorism in Europe. Read More »
  • » Intelligence Dominance A better way forward in Iraq - On July 31st The Weekly Standard published Intelligence Dominance, A better way forward by Professor Richard H. Shultz and Professor Roy Godson. Professor Shultz is the Director of International Security studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and Director of Research at the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) and Roy Godson is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University and President of the National Strategy Information Center. The research for this article was drawn from CSI's Armed Groups Project. Read More »
  • » Shultz/Dew Book Review in The Wall Street Journal - The Wall Street Journal featured a terrific review of “Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat” by Fletcher’s Dick Shultz and Andrea Dew. The reviewer praised the book, noting that the authors “have produced a wise and cogent briefing book about who our enemies are and how to anticipate their field tactics.” Congratulations to Dick and Andrea! Read More »
  • » Howard invited to be Associate Fellow - Brigadier General (RET) Russ Howard has been invited to be an Associate Fellow and member of the Editorial Advisory Board at the Joint Special Operations University at Hurlburt Field, Florida. http://www.afsoc.af.mil/jsou/.
  • » Jebsen Center Researcher Rockford Weitz shared his op-ed that he coauthored with Fletcher Professor John C. Perry and Scott Borgerson (F ’03, Ph.D. ’06). It has just printed in the Straits Times, Singapore! Congratulations! Well done! Read More »
  • » Paula Broadwell travels to Muscat, Oman - Jebsen Center researcher Paula Broadwell recently traveled to Muscat, Oman, for a Stanley Foundation Track-2 conference on "Challenges of Gulf Security:Conflicts and Routes to Stability". In private meetings, forty official, academic and NGO participants from the Arab Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, India, Pakistan, China, Japan, the European Union and the United States took part. Discussions revolved around regional security cooperation and counter-terrorism initiatives, the Iranian nuclear program and the volatile situation in Iraq. Paula served as rapporteur for the conference and conducted extensive interviews for her Jebsen Center research proposal on counter-terrorism cooperation in the region.
  • » Paula Broadwell meets former Israeli Prime Minister, and General Wesley Clark - Earlier this summer Jebsen Center researcher Paula Broadwell had the opportunity to meet former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Additionally, Paula Broadwell met with mentor General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
  • » The Jebsen Center’s Women and Terrorism panel at the ISA Northeast Conference - The Jebsen Center’s Women and Terrorism panel, spearheaded by Jebsen Center Researcher Jennie Dow, has been accepted for the ISA Northeast Conference which will be held in Boston, MA from November 9-11, 2006. JCCTS researchers Jennie Dow, Kate Brodock, Colleen Traughber, along with Fletcher Student Sudila De Silva will be presenting. Brigadier General Russell D. Howard will be the moderator. Congratulations!!
  • » Lorenzo Vidino at Complex Asian Crime Symposium - Jebsen Center Researcher Lorenzo Vidino spoke at the Complex Asian Crime Symposium in Lyon, France. Lorenzo spoke at The Symposium at the Interpol General Secretariat on Investigative Project on Terrorism. The symposium expanded the geographic and topical coverage to include organized crime and its links to terrorism from Suez to Tokyo. Lorenzo appeared with other experts from academia and national police agencies world-wide, including private organizations and think-tanks, gathered in Lyon to address a wide range of issues of strategic and tactical interest to enforcement authorities.
  • » JCCTS Research Assistant Engaged! On Saturday, June 24, 2006 Jebsen Center Research Assistant, Assaf Moghadam proposed marriage to girlfriend Yaara Shteinhart. She said yes!!
  • » Jebsen Center Researchers Take Their First Jump! - On May 31, 2006 Natasha Bajema and Gregory Dimitriadis went skydiving in Lebanon, Maine.
  • » Jennie Dow travels to Italy - Jebsen Center Research Assistant Jennie Dow, Lieutenant USNR spent two weeks in August on assignment in Italy. Amongst the places she was able to visit were Positano and Sorrento.
  • » Graduate Research Assistants Hilary Sienrukos and Colleen Traughber meet in Tbilisi, Georgia on July 22, 2006. -

Hilary Sienrukos and Colleen Traughber spent the summer working at US Embassies in the Caucasus, Hilary in Azerbaijan and Colleen in Georgia. On July 22, they met in Tbilisi to compare their experiences living at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. They took an excursion up the Georgian Military Highway, where they stopped at Ananuri, a 16th Century fortress, which formerly housed the dukes of Aragvi. It is a well-preserved example of architecture from the period with walls, cupola, and defense towers that remain greatly in tact. Instead of a village in the Aragvi River valley, it now overlooks the Zhinvali reservoir. Ananuri still proves to be a scenic lookout point.
 

  • » Graduate Research Assistant investigates terrorism and trafficking in Tbilisi, Georgia. -

Colleen Traughber spent the summer in Tbilisi, Georgia, interning first at the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) and then in the Political/Economic Section of the US Embassy. In Georgia, she investigated the threats from arms, drug, and human trafficking and focused on the links between terrorism and trafficking in the Caucasus. Combined with corruption, both terrorism and trafficking threaten Georgian sovereignty and state security. Even in the aftermath of the Rose Revolution (November 2003), corruption continues to be a problem endemic to the Georgian government.

Colleen’s adventures did not stop in the workplace: She hiked, rafted, and swam her way through Georgia. Weekend trips included hiking into the mountains near Kazbegi, rafting on the Aragvi River near Chargali, and swimming in the Black Sea off of Batumi (to name just a few). During her two-month stay in Georgia, she dabbled in the art of toast-making at various supras (Georgian feasts). She did her best to counter the Russian embargo against Georgian water and wine. Colleen describes Georgian hospitality as “second to none” and one of the regions most well-preserved cultural characteristics.

Hiking near Kazbegi

(That’s Mount Kazbek in the background.)

Rafting on the Aragvi River:

On the beach in Batumi with friends:

Hiking with the TraCCC office in June outside of Mtskheta:

» Josh Gleis took traveled through California this summer. During his trek he visited Joshua Tree National Park where he posed with a Joshua tree and made a successful attempt at rock climbing (No belaying! Very brave!). He later visited Sequoia National park and posed next to the ominous “General Sherman”, the tallest tree in the world!

 

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