Belfer in Brief

Managing the Atom Fellow Hassan Abbas spoke at Tufts University's Fletcher School on "Leadership in South Asia Today: A Comparison of Leaders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh" in April 2006. Abbas also spoke on U.S.-Indian relations at the "India Initiative Conference" at Columbia University.

The Belfer Center's fitness team landed second place in Harvard's first-ever Team Fitness Challenge in April. Biziouras Incorporated, composed of Belfer Center Fellows Nikolaos Biziouras, Michael Boyle, Olivier Brighenti, Rachel Gisselquist, Michael Horowitz, Assaf Moghadam, John Park, and Sebastian Rosato, along with Rebekah Crooks and Erin Simpson logged 19,239 minutes of yoga, jogging, weight lifting, and other activities. Congratulations to Belfer Center's brains and brawn!

Science, Technology and Globalization Project Director Calestous Juma was the keynote speaker at a National Academy of Sciences conference on global health in Washington, D.C. in April. His speech was titled "Genomics, Innovation and Human Welfare: Policy and Institutional Dimensions."

Managing the Atom Fellow John Park and MTA Assistant Sarah Stanlick helped coordinate the "2006 KEI-BCSIA Speakers Series on Korean Security Issues" co-sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute and Managing the Atom (MTA) Project. ROK Ambassador to the U.S. Lee Tae-sik delivered the inaugural speech at the Center in April.

Belfer Center Faculty Associate Dorothy Zinberg has been named to the board of directors of a new Internet program called Talking Science Internet Radio. The program will be designed to attract audiences not traditionally drawn to science, especially women and young people.

Intrastate Conflict Program Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown's "The Trouble Ahead: The Cocaleros of Peru," was published in Current History in February 2006.

In June, International Relations will publish Belfer Center Senior Fellow Rosemary Foot's article "Torture: The Struggle Over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era."

The Foreign Affairs' May/June 2006 issue includes "The Long War against Corruption," an article by Belfer Center Senior Fellow Ben Heineman, former senior counsel for General Electric, and Fritz Heimann, cofounder of Transparency International.

Former Belfer Center International Security Program (ISP) Fellow Mustafa Kibaroglu wrote "Isn't it Time to Say Farewell to Nukes in Turkey?" published in the journal European Security

Vol. 14, No. 4, 443-457.

ISP Fellow Assaf Moghdam's book review of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, edited by Diego Gambetta, was published in Political Science Quarterly 121, (no. 1) in spring 2006: 142-144.

Managing the Atom Research Associate Hui Zhang published "North Korean Denuclearization: A Chinese View of the Way Forward" in Disarmament Diplomacy (no. 82) in spring 2006.