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...Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government announced yesterday that it has agreed to assist the small Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai in establishing a school of government to train its next generation of leaders. Former United States Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine will be the first Executive Director of the Cambridge-based Middle East Governance Initiative, a Kennedy School program...
...more restrictive policies toward travel abroad adopted this semester by the College, students are now barred from visiting countries including Lebanon, Nigeria and Yemen as well as 23 others on Harvard’s buck. Moreover, the policies prohibit the College from granting any academic credit for study abroad experiences there? While there are valid concerns about the risks inherent in traveling to some of these locations, we regret that at a time when the College is trying to encourage international experiences, it has put insurance considerations ahead of pedagogy...
These short-sighted, stricter travel limits will inevitably hinder Harvard’s newfound—and critically important—goal of providing students with a broader, international perspective. To cite one regional example: now that Lebanon and Yemen are off-limits, students wishing to travel to the Middle East are left to choose between the Gulf, Jordan and Egypt. Cynics may contend that these countries can bestow enough perspective on the Middle East to suffice, but we suggest that these cynics try convincing a Lebanese national that his culture is exactly the same as Jordan?...
Pace wrote that Harvard’s policy barred him from going to Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen or Iran...
...difficult?crude oil does not catch fire easily, for example?but it's not too hard to blast a hole in one so that its cargo is released, creating a maritime disaster. There's also the economic impact. When the oil tanker Limburg was attacked off the coast of Yemen in October 2002, insurance costs for calls to the country's ports rose by some $150,000 per ship. Such a situation would force shipping companies to make long detours around the strait, notes Dominic Armstrong, research chief for the London-based security firm Aegis Defence Services and author...