Press Releases
April 4, 2011
Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Announces Spring 2011 Fisher Family Fellows
By Cathryn Clüver, Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project
The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, is pleased to announce the Spring 2011 Fisher Family Fellows. The 2011 Fellows include the former Brazilian Minister of External Relations, Celso Amorim; the former UN Special Representative to Afghanistan, Kai Eide; and renowned Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius. All three fellows will be delivering public addresses and working closely with Harvard Kennedy School degree students in Cambridge.
March 24, 2011
Harvard Kennedy School Announces 2011 Roy Family Environment Award
By Amanda Sardonis, Assistant Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
CAMBRIDGE, MA— The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University announced today that the 2011 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will be given to Refrigerants, Naturally!, an alliance of corporations substituting environmentally-harmful fluorinated gases ("F-gases", such as CFCs, HCFCs and HFCs) with natural refrigerants in their commercial refrigeration installations. Natural refrigerants are climate and ozone friendly gases that exist naturally in the biosphere, i.e. ammonia, carbon dioxide, and hydrocarbons.
March 23, 2011
Expert Examines Impact of EU's Diversification Strategy on GCC at Dubai School of Government Lecture
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai-UAE - The European Union is trying to diversify its sources of energy imports and reduce reliance on Russian natural gas. Accordingly, it has started to reach out to Gulf countries for a secure source of this natural resource. In order to assess whether broadening the strategic relationship between the EU and the GCC is to the benefit of both sides, Europe's energy security challenges first need to be examined, according to Justin Dargin, Research Fellow at The Dubai Initiative and Fulbright Scholar of the Middle East.
Dane Hillard
March 8, 2011
National Survey of American Muslims Finds Mosques Help Muslims Integrate into American Political Life
By Karam Dana, Former Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
On Thursday, March 10th, 2011, Congressman Peter King (R-NY) will begin Congressional Hearings questioning the role of mosques and religiosity in radicalizing the Muslim population of the United States. A large scale national survey of the Muslim American population finds that involvement with the mosque, and increased religiosity increases civic engagement and support for American democratic values. The study, the Muslim American Public Opinion Survey (MAPOS) was completed in 2008, and interviewed 1,410 Muslim American respondents across the nation on issues of religion, civic engagement and public policy in the United States, and is currently being sponsored by a research grant from the Social Science Research Council. The study was lead by principal investigators Dr. Karam Dana and Dr. Matt A. Barreto.
January 31, 2011
"Joseph S. Nye's THE FUTURE OF POWER"
In Joseph S. Nye's THE FUTURE OF POWER, he offers a rigorous analysis of the international fault lines of the twenty-first century, discussing issues such as nuclear proliferation, radical Islam, and the return of Asia. He shows how U.S. power and influence can best be deployed to help resolve critical global issues.
November 9, 2010
Future of Diplomacy Project announces new resident and non-resident fellows
By Cathryn Clüver, Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project
The Future of Diplomacy Project, the newest research initiative to be launched by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, announces its resident and non-resident research fellows for Fall 2010. "Our research fellows bring a blend of practical and academic expertise in diplomacy to the Harvard community, which is instrumental to the critical examination of international conflict resolution mechanisms today," said Future of Diplomacy Project Director Nicholas Burns.
September 29, 2010
Foreign Minister of Turkey to kick off Middle East Seminar Series
By Sarah Kneezle, Coordinator, The Future of Diplomacy Project
The Harvard Kennedy School and Brandeis University will inaugurate the new Crown-Belfer Middle East Seminar series on September 29, featuring Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.
September 23, 2010
Harvard Kennedy School Receives $1 Million Gift from the Crown Prince Court, Abu Dhabi for Graduate Leadership Fellowship
By Doug Gavel
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has announced a $1 million gift from the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. The gift will be used to launch a new graduate fellowship that will support emerging leaders from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) while advancing the mission of the School's Middle East Initiative, a nexus for convening policymakers and scholars on the region.
July 8, 2010
International Security Ranks First for Impact Factor among International Relations Journals in 2009
International Security, the quarterly journal edited at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and published by The MIT Press, ranked first for Impact Factor among international relations journals in 2009. The closely watched rankings, calculated annually in the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports®, measure average citations per article, demonstrating the journal's relevance in its field.
April 12, 2010
On Eve of Nuclear Security Summit, Faster, Broader Global Effort Needed to Secure All Nuclear Materials in Four Years
By Cathy Gwin and Sasha Talcott, Former Director of Communications and Outreach
As more than 40 heads of state convene in Washington for President Obama's nuclear security summit, a new report released today, finds that despite significant progress, the world is not yet on track to meet the Administration's goal of securing all stockpiles of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable nuclear materials, within four years. To meet the four-year objective President Obama set in Prague in April 2009, global leaders must redouble efforts following the upcoming nuclear security summit, shifting the global nuclear security effort onto a faster and broader trajectory, according to Securing the Bomb 2010.
