2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Enrichment Institute

The Dickey Center, along with other campus partners, will host 25 Mandela Washington fellowship alumni from 18 African countries this summer. The two-week Alumni Enrichment Institutes will leverage experiential and discussion-based learning to provide Participants with broadly applicable knowledge about U.S. culture and society and immerse them in a U.S. community through community service, cultural exchange, strategic networking, and site visits. To learn more about how to engage with and meet the participants click here.

Initiative for Global Security hosts inaugural International Security Forum

The May 12-13 forum was the first in what will become an annual international security conference hosted by the new Dartmouth Initiative for Global Security, dedicated to connecting Dartmouth researchers to the Washington and international policy community.

National Security Advisor (and former Dickey Center Magro Family Distinguished Visitor) Jake Sullivan joined some 60 top-level national security experts from the Biden administration, think tanks, and academia.

Institute of Arctic Studies Director Burkins interviewed for UArctic Shared Voices Magazine

To shed light to UArctic’s role as an organization representing Arctic interests, the UArctic International Secretariat had an online talk with the three experts, Kirsi Latola, Anne Husebekk and Melody Brown Burkins, to hear their thoughts on why this kind of work matters, both within the region and in the rest of the world.

"The American War in Afghanistan: A History"

Professor Carter Malkasian, author of The American War in Afghanistan: A History, visited the Dickey Center on May 2-3. While here he met with faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows and with the Center's War & Peace Fellows and Professor Jay Lyall's class, "War and Society." At the conclusion of his visit, Professor Malkasian participated in a conversation moderated by Tina Dooley-Jones '82, former Mission Chief for USAID in Afghanistan and current Dickey Center Magro Fellow, now available on our YouTube channel.

Ambassador Keith Harper Visits

Ambassador Keith Harper served as U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council from 2014 to 2017. He was the Center's Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951 Great Issues Lecturer, delivering a talk on "Promoting Human Rights in an Increasingly Challenging and Autocratic World." While on campus he met with faculty, staff, and students over the course of two days. His lecture can be viewed on the Center's YouTube channel.