Dartmouth Now (August 6, 2013) In a Reuters story published by the Chicago Tribune, the reporter turns to Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin for a comment about the intercepted communication between al Qaeda leaders that led, in part, to the closing of many U.S. embassies in the Middle East and Africa.
[more]Dartmouth Now, July 15, 2013 In a column published by The Huffington Post, Anuraag Girdhar ’15, a former Great Issues Scholar and Stefansson Fellow at the Dickey Center, writes about “forensic economics,” which, he explains, “seeks to use economic tools to detect and describe hidden, sometimes illicit behavior.”
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Lisa Adams, MD, Director of the Dickey Center's Global Health initiative is one of approximately 50 physicians and nurses from the Geisel School of Medicine who have committed a year to working for the Ministry of Health in Rwanda as part of the Human Resources for Health Program (HRH). Dr. Adams taught and mentored medical students and residents, and made the rounds on the patient wards. The goal is to train skilled physicians and medical school faculty to serve a country that badly needs more of both.
[more]Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin talked to the online magazine Slate about some critical security issues: how despite what you see in movies like Zero Dark Thirty the administration has dramatically degraded the threat from al-Qaeda; the difficulty of tracking the lone wolf terrorist; and one of the most effective and least talked about tools against terrorism--capacity building. Watch the Slate interviews with Daniel Benjamin:
[more]The research of Dickey Center's War and Peace Program Director Daryl Press, an associate professor government, is highlighted in a Boston Globe article on the effect ultimatums have on a nation's or leader's credibility. Link to the Dartmouth Now and Boston Globe stories.
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