October 18, 2018 | FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COM
Dickey Director Daniel Benjamin published a piece in ...
Read more.September 21, 2018 | NEWS.DARTMOUTH.EDU
On Friday, the Dickey Center hosted Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Read the story and watch the video of his lecture to GOVT 54 US Foreign and Military Policy (and many of the College's veterans)...
Read more.September 12, 2018
Welcome to Fall term! The Center is hosting a number of events this term, so be sure to check here and our website for frequent updates. Our most recent Crossroads newsletter is also now available online. Read it here.
September 12, 2018 | POLITICO MAGAZINE
Seventeen years after the attacks on September 11th, Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin wrote a piece for Politico Magazine that notes the lack of recent attention to terrorism by our political leaders and the media and asks: "Is this a good thing? If so, is it durable?"
Consider this sign of the times: In late August, U.S. officials...
Read more.Aug 20, 2018 | Dartmouth Media Release
Getting policy right: why fisheries management is plagued by the panacea mindset
Fisheries management has often been characterized by regulatory policies that result in panaceas--broad-based policy solutions that are expected to address several problems, which result in unintended consequences. An international research team shows how one size fits all policies like individual transferable quotas may be doomed from the onset, as these policies perpetuate "the panacea mindset." The team calls for a more customized policy...
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During Summer 2018, the Dickey Center welcomed Dartmouth's fifth cohort of Mandela Washington Fellows as part of the Young African Leaders Initiative.
Nasera Victoria is from South Sudan, but she was born and grew up knowing only the harsh life of a Ugandan refugee camp. She tells how, as a girl, she began to play soccer with the boys in the camp, mainly because she was good at fashioning soccer balls from crumpled bags, strips of plant fiber, and elastic bands.
Her talent for soccer...
Read more.April 17, 2018
From pilot studies of clay-captured fingerprints to seed grants for a book about Nepalese culture and social change, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding helps support between 20-25 faculty each year in their pursuit of early career and innovative research around the world.
This past week, the Dickey Center was extremely pleased to see two faculty awardees of the Center’s 2017-18 Faculty Research and Travel Grant program—Assistant Professor of Classics, Julie Hruby, and...
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Fulbright Arctic Initiative Press Release | April 3, 2018
Sixteen outstanding scholars from Arctic Council nations will engage in collaborative, multi-disciplinary research over the next 18 months through the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Arctic Initiative to advance Arctic nations’ shared interest in building resilient communities and sustainable economies. Researchers will explore topics such as renewable energy, fisheries management, health and wellness, and telecommunications infrastructure in the Arctic. Sponsored by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and...
Read more.January 25, 2018 | The Conversation
The Dickey Center's Global Health Initiative Program Manager Anne Sosin and Dartmouth Assistant Professor of Anthropology Chelsey Kivland...
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December 1, 2017 | Witness the Arctic
An article about the mentoring work of JSEP (Joint Science Education Program) written by Lauren Culler, Outreach Coordinator for the Institute of Arctic Studies, and Lee McDavid, Program Manager of the Institute of Arctic Studies, appeared in Witness the Arctic, an online publication of ARCUS (the Arctic Research Consortium of the US).
JSEP is funded by the National Science Foundation...
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