In February 2023, the Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT) hosted the ReSentencing Gallery Opening. This exhibition “showcased a selection of poetry, stories, essays, and visual art from ReSentencing, a nationwide literary and arts journal founded at Tufts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Tisch College of Civic […]
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How will traumatic decarbonization affect peace processes and political settlements in fragile oil-producing states in Africa and the Middle East? Energy Transition in Fragile States: A Critical Primer
February 2023
There is increasing global recognition of the need to move away from carbon-based fuels towards renewable energy […]
Continue Reading →As cited in a New York Times article this week, the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project recently announced that is releasing a “comprehensive public resource documenting prison deaths nationwide.” Already, their research demonstrates a devastating impact of COVID on incarcerated people:
In 2020, at least 6,182 people died in U.S. prisons. This […]
Continue Reading →Two days from now, as many as 93 million people will head to the polls in what is shaping up to be the most competitive presidential election since Nigeria’s transition to democracy in 1999. It is likely to be a record-setting election in many ways. There are a record number of registered voters, more than […]
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A few weeks ago, the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church (EOTC) was on the brink of fracture when three archbishops declared the establishment of a breakaway synod in Oromia and presided over the appointment of 26 bishops. The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was clearly involved in this […]
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From COP27 to the latest 30×30 agreement to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans and land by 2030, there is greater global commitment to act to avert the worst aspects of climate change. A cornerstone in many of these environmental policies is a decarbonizing of our economies, and especially […]
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