AMERICAS
Fall 2005
"Nobel Laureate Calls for Creativity in Reducing Nuclear Threats"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
"We owe it to ourselves to develop a system that can protect us without relying on nuclear weapons," Mohamed ElBaradei, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, told an overflow crowd at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on November 1st during a discussion on nonproliferation and arms control with Belfer Center Director Graham Allison.
Fall 2005
"Hybrid Delivery Truck Wins 2005 Roy Family Award"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
A number of Kennedy School students took a detour on their way to class one day late last spring to check out an award winning FedEx delivery truck parked in the school courtyard.
Fall 2005
"Symposium Tribute to Vicki Norberg-Bohm Examines Technology Innovation"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
"The greatest technological challenge of the 21st century will be figuring out how to provide the affordable energy needed to sustain prosperity where it already exists-to create and sustain it where it doesn't-without wrecking the regional and global environmental conditions and processes that, equally with economic conditions and processes, underpin human well-being. Vicki Norberg-Bohm understood this with great clarity, and it motivated and shaped her exceptionally productive and insightful work on energy technology innovation."
Fall 2005
"Belfer in Brief"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
News from the Belfer Center.
Fall 2005
"Fellows’ Research Has Global Implications, Impact"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Military transformation, drugs and conflict in Afghanistan, clean-coal technologies, women's governance in the Middle East, agricultural biotechnology, U.S. intelligence issues, weapons in space-these are a fraction of the topics being researched by the exceptional Belfer Center fellows who are settling into the new academic year.
Fall 2005
"Q&A with Xenia Dormandy"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Xenia (pronounced Zaynia) Dormandy is the Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center. Until August 2005, she served as director for South Asia at the National Security Council where she played a key role in the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Prior to that, she was a foreign affairs specialist in the Regional Affairs Office of the Bureau of South Asia at the Department of State. A graduate of the Kennedy School, she completed her Masters in Public Policy, concentrating in International Security and Political Economy and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
Fall 2005
"PDP Workshop Explores Strategies for U.S.–North Korea Policy"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Gretchen M. Bartlett, Former Associate Director, Preventive Defense Project, 1997-2009
Preventive Defense Project (PDP) Codirectors Ashton Carter and William Perry hosted a workshop in Washington D.C. in July to design a coherent strategy for dealing with North Korea's nuclear weapons program. More than 50 experts took part in the workshop at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to explore the diplomatic option and coercive policies if diplomacy should fail.
Fall 2005
"Spotlight: Paul Doty"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Paul Doty is the founder and director emeritus of the Belfer Center, emeritus member of the Center's Board of Directors, and emeritus professor of public policy at the Kennedy School. However, most of his professional life has been as professor of biochemistry in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences where he founded the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1968.
Fall 2005
"Notable Quotes"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Notable quotes from opeds and testimonies.
