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Twenty-five years ago, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) was rededicated with a clear mission: to instill new generations of leaders with the knowledge and values necessary to run the world fairly. Earlier this month, the KSG held a ceremony in honor of that anniversary, including a procession of students bearing the banners of their home countries. But by refusing to let one student carry the Palestinian flag along with them, the KSG’s administration did a disservice to the vision it commemorated...
...into the march’s ranks would have opened up an endless can of nationalistic worms, with students using flags to declare allegiance to every putative “nation” under the sun. But this supposed catastrophe would, in fact, be a model of what the KSG should aim for at all times. The questions involved, those of nationhood in places like Tibet and East Timor, are some of the most pressing in international politics today. If KSG won’t engage them, who will...
...excuse given by the KSG’s administration—that the only nations whose flags could be represented at the ceremony were those recognized by the U.S. State Department—is embarrassing. The KSG is supposed to teach its students to think critically and make good policy, not to be blind apparatchiks to Washington. The State Department may have compelling political reasons not to include the Palestinian Authority on its list of independent states, but Secretary of State Colin L. Powell can’t set the curriculum in Cambridge...
...Boucher said that in general, “if a student is considered [by the KSG] as from a certain country, that should be recognized...
...action [would] destroy the present policy of KSG, which may lead to many, many requests for raising all kinds of flags,” he wrote in an e-mail...