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April 2022Dyan Mazurana and Fletcher Network help Evacuate Alumni from Afghanistan
As the Taliban overthrew the Afghan government in August 2021, a small Fletcher School team mobilized a network of Tufts alumni and faculty to help evacuate Afghan alumni and their…
Read MoreApril 2022Dyan Mazurana quoted in Boston Globe editorial on Afghanistan
On April 18, 2022, the Boston Globe editorial “The world must help the girls of Afghanistan” described how the Taliban is restricting education for girls and women and looked at…
Read MoreApril 2022Merry Fitzpatrick and colleague contribute post script to Field Exchange article on kwashiorkor
Because kwashiorkor, one of two major classifications of acute malnutrition, is often called “edematous malnutrition” and is diagnosed by pitting edema in both feet, any edema in compromised children is…
Read MoreApril 2022Elizabeth Stites and Kimberly Howe describe lessons from Syria for the humanitarian response in Ukraine
Helping Ukrainians means listening to their needs – 3 lessons for aid groups from Syria’s war Millions of Syrians remain displaced from the conflict that began in 2011. Delil Souleiman/AFP…
Read MoreApril 2022Feinstein and Darfur Universities share lessons from research partnership
The Feinstein International Center has been working with academic colleagues in Sudan since it began working in the country more than 20 years ago. However, developing partnerships at the institutional…
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