This video was recorded at Knowledge Economy Network (KEN) Forum. The focus of this year's Forum remains on development and...
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This video was recorded at Knowledge Economy Network (KEN) Forum. The focus of this year's Forum remains on development and better use of human capital. Therefore it will assess how Bologna Process could be accelerated, and which values are needed for young professionals to be able to contribute to sustainable development. Detailed program can be found at KEN Forum.
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series: The Future of Nuclear Technology 2007. If nuclear energy becomes a central tool...
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series: The Future of Nuclear Technology 2007. If nuclear energy becomes a central tool in addressing climate change, will nuclear weapons proliferation inevitably follow? In the words of Matthew Bunn, "The horse ain't entirely out of the barn—there are still things to do." He and fellow panelists acknowledge the link between civilian nuclear energy programs and military use of the atom, but try to find a middle ground, where technical and institutional roadblocks prevent the spread of deadly weapons to nations and terrorists. For starters, Bunn recommends tackling the hard-core cases, Iran and North Korea. If they became established nuclear nations, they would present "a huge blow to the non-proliferation regime." Give them a "package of multilateral carrots and sticks large and credible enough" to convince them to drop their pursuit of weapons, Bunn suggests. He also advocates reducing demand for nuclear weapons "through alliances that extend a defense umbrella, resolving regional conflicts and granting more status to non-nuclear weapons states;" beefing up verification, inspection, and enforcement, with more access to sites; and preventing future black market networks from arising. He describes a chilling number of nuclear material thefts, and suggests that international sabotage of a reactor is more likely than a safety accident, so the nuclear industry should "bring its worst security performers up to level." In 1945, as a grade school student, Marvin Miller remembers singing "a hymn of praise to the bomb in school assembly." While the public regarded it as the weapon that won World War 2, Miller, in his history of the early post-war period, recalls that many scientists and statesmen were both hopeful of the promise of nuclear power, and deeply concerned about proliferation and an arms race. In March 1946, the Acheson-Lilienthal report warned that international inspections would not be enough to prevent the misuse of peaceful nuclear facilities, and recommended a central, international authority monitor and control uranium enrichment, mining and the production of plutonium. The world wasn't ready for such a solution then, says Miller. Is it ready for it now? Miller believes that U.S. national security and international stability are best served "by taking concrete steps toward a nuclear weapons-free world." The non-proliferation treaty has become outmoded, says Geoff Forden. It is basically a bargain between nations in the atomic club, who promise access to peaceful nuclear technology to nations outside the club, if those without weapons pledge not to pursue them. But with the globalization of precision engineering and sophisticated manufacturing techniques, there are no longer barriers to acquiring nuclear know-how and materials. Nuclear profiteers such as Pakistan's A.Q. Khan, have also provided a fast track to nuclear systems. So "we should proceed with a new philosophy," says Forden, increasing international involvement in every country's nuclear programs -- including intrusive inspections, and an international auditing authority to monitor letters of credit exchanged electronically. Forden also proposes placing an international enrichment facility on Iranian soil, allowing that nation access to nuclear fuel through "black box" technology that won't permit theft of material or engineering. In exchange, Iran would agree not to acquire nuclear weapons.
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This video was recorded at Security and Technology @ Carnegie Council. Journalist Jere Van Dyk tells of his decades-long...
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This video was recorded at Security and Technology @ Carnegie Council. Journalist Jere Van Dyk tells of his decades-long involvement with Afghanistan, and gives a harrowing account of his 2008 kidnapping and imprisonment by the Taliban in the no-man's land between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series: Nobel Laureate Speakers. At times humorous and other times defiant, José...
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series: Nobel Laureate Speakers. At times humorous and other times defiant, José Ramos-Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East Timor from brutal Indonesian rule to fragile self-governance has involved Ramos-Horta in conflict and debate from the halls of the U.N. to the smallest villages of this tiny Southeast Asian island. He describes the scene in 2002, after two years of UN-supervised transition, when Indonesia handed off a nation it had governed by force for decades: "A human calamity -- close to 200 thousand people lost their lives." Another 200 thousand were forcibly displaced into West Timor. As it departed "in anger and frustration," Indonesia's military orchestrated the destruction of the nation's cities, roads, schools and clinics. "The economy was at a standstill," says Ramos-Horta. "We received barely a sketch of a state, a skeleton." The challenge of rebuilding East Timor is all the more daunting given "the psychological-emotional trauma of 24 years of violence." There are bitter disputes involving how to conduct a national process of reconciliation. Western ambassadors recently called on Ramos-Horta, "representatives of two countries most notorious…for providing weapons and the red carpet treatment to the dictatorship of Indonesia." They advocated establishing an international tribunal to pursue crimes against humanity during Indonesian rule. Says Ramos-Horta, "Had I been in a bad mood, I would have said, 'Excuse me, the two of you are lecturing me on human rights and justice?'" Despite warnings from the U.N. that "lack of justice encourages impunity," he believes East Timor must travel its own path toward reconciliation. If East Timor set up such a tribunal, "Who would it start with -- Indonesia or the U.S., which provided weapons to Suharto, or Australia, or all of them at once?" He states, "If you pursue justice at any cost without being sensitive to the challenges and complexities on the ground, you undermine the incipient nation, democracy and justice." Today, when Ramos-Horta travels in the countryside, people don't want to discuss security and unity. Recounts Ramos-Horta, "They joke with me: 'Mr. President, we really like your road to peace, but we prefer a road to our village.'" He's now focused on providing his people with such essentials as clean water and electricity, and shoring up the nation's fragile social and economic institutions. "Let's put all the past behind us. Look after the victims, the wounded, in their minds, bodies and souls, build a country that is deserving of so much sacrifice. Chasing the ghosts of the past leads us nowhere," says Ramos-Horta.
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This video was recorded at Graduate Seminar in Public Health. The Program in Public Health (PPH) was established in 2003 to...
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This video was recorded at Graduate Seminar in Public Health. The Program in Public Health (PPH) was established in 2003 to provide institutional focus for existing academic strengths in various sub-disciplines of public health, and to facilitate well-grounded education and innovative research in emerging aspects of the field. Under the Program in Public Health, undergraduate degree programs began enrolling students in 2006, and the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention was established in 2007 to advance the collaborative interdisciplinary mission of public health research and education. In coming years, the Program in Public Health will expand to become a School of Public Health with accredited undergraduate, MPH, and Ph.D programs and a dual degree MD/MPH program with the School of Medicine. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series - Starr Forum. While he admits to no surprise about events in Gaza, Noam Chomsky...
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series - Starr Forum. While he admits to no surprise about events in Gaza, Noam Chomsky does consider "the latest U.S.-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians" a step beyond terrorism and aggression. He says "some new term is needed for the sadistic and cowardly torture of people caged with no possibility of escape, being pounded daily by the most sophisticated products of U.S. military technology." Chomsky says these "new crimes" don't fit easily into any standard category except for "familiarity," and his talk recaps the history of Israeli relations with Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere. He notes that while many are engaged in "sober debate on what the attackers hope to achieve," he doesn't find Israeli motives at all "obscure." Chomsky says "rational Israeli hard-liners" decided it was senseless to subsidize the illegal Israeli settlement of Gaza in 2005, which would have required significant resources. Instead, they decided to back settlement of the West Bank, a more valuable territory, with its arable land and water supplies. The intent of this criminal annexation is "a vastly expanded Jerusalem." Says Chomsky, "It made more sense to turn Gaza into the world's largest prison, and let people rot." Upcoming elections influenced the timing of the Gaza invasion, he continues. Ehud Barak was lagging badly in the polls, and an attack in the name of defending Israel against Hamas rockets was calculated to buy Barak parliamentary seats, says Chomsky. And while every state has a right to defend itself against criminal attacks, there's "a matter of choice of action in the first place, proportional or not. Any resort to force always carries a heavy burden of proof." Israel surely has a "peaceful alternative to the use of force on its territory," says Chomsky: It could accept a ceasefire. Chomsky recites a litany of examples of Israeli and U.S. hypocrisy in action and policy around Israel's claimed desire for peace. "Of course it wants peace, everyone wants peace. Hitler wanted peace, for example. The question is, on what terms." Going back to the earliest days of the Zionist movement, it was clear that Israel wanted to delay a political settlement, "while building facts on the ground." Says Chomsky, "Today Israel could have security, and normalization of relations and integration into the region, but it clearly prefers illegal expansion, conflict, repeated exercise of violence, to teach lessons to the 'two-legged beasts,' actions that are severely eroding its security even if it gains short-term military victory." He concludes, "We're observing a rare moment in history: politicide, the murder of a nation at our hands."
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series: The Resilient City: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance. The presentation is a...
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This video was recorded at MIT World Series: The Resilient City: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance. The presentation is a case study of Jerusalem, the most destroyed and rebuilt city in history, and a major site for the three great monotheistic religions which are now adhered to by more than half the religious population of the world. Basic ideas of loss and restitution are briefly examined in the stories and laws of the Jewish, Christian and Moslem texts, as well as in some writing in psychiatry, and in the eschatologies arising from Jerusalem in particular. Some of these are then applied to four case studies of major shrines in Jerusalem: the built and imagined Temples of the Jews, destroyed and never rebuilt; the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre, frequently destroyed but constantly rebuilt; the Moslem buildings on the Haram-al-Sharif, threatened but never destroyed by human hands; and the Hurva synagogue, twice destroyed, and as of yet not rebuilt but involving important design proposals by famous architects over the past 25 years. Finally twelve general principles of the resilience of buildings are put forward, derived from both the religious and architectural evidence of Jerusalem.
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This video has been created as a tutorial covering the Civil Rights movement. The specific topic is cause and effect:...
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This video has been created as a tutorial covering the Civil Rights movement. The specific topic is cause and effect: segregation to integration.
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This video was recorded at MIT World: One Host Fits All. In the last few years, archaeologists have recovered two of the...
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This video was recorded at MIT World: One Host Fits All. In the last few years, archaeologists have recovered two of the Civil War's most ingenious inventions: the Union ironclad warship Monitor and the Confederate submarine Hunley. In this symposium panelists discuss the newest technology projects that have brought these inventions to light from the sea depths, and what they can teach about technology and the Civil War.
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This video was recorded at MIT 11.948 The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq - Spring 2005. This course is being offered in...
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This video was recorded at MIT 11.948 The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq - Spring 2005. This course is being offered in conjunction with the colloquium The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq, which is sponsored by MIT's Center for International Studies and Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Fundamentally, the course focuses on contemporary post-conflict countries (or in-conflict countries) and the role of planning and reconstruction in building nations, mitigating conflicts, reshaping the social, spatial, geopolitical, and political life, and determining the country's future. Course Highlights This course features lecture notes and student projects. Course Homepage: 11.948 The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq Spring 2005 Course features at MIT OpenCourseWare page: Syllabus Calendar Readings Lecture Notes Projects Download Course Materials
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Lawrence J. Vale, Richard J. Samuels, David J. Nash, Harvey M. Sapolsky, Charles N. Patterson
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