MIT researchers have been developing the craft of wargaming since the late 1950s. Lincoln Bloomfield, a MIT professor, and other faculty affiliated with CIS were pioneers of modern wargaming technology. Today, CIS is again at the center of new developments in the methodology, pedagogy, and application of wargaming.

A foreign policy informed by the sense that self-governance and the pursuit of equality has been and remains a struggle in both Haiti and the United States may go some way towards bringing about a more nuanced and constructive approach to Haiti's political crisis. And it might also help us in the United States to think a little more forthrightly about our own need for constitutional reform.

During political violence around the world, ordinary people respond to chaos and danger in many different ways. For everyone who participates in a riot or mob, there is someone who has barricaded themselves in a closet. For every family that seeks refuge from insurgent violence or state terror in another neighborhood or state, another family tries to adapt to the danger and stay put.

MISTI launches career connections energy course; IAP contemporary military topics; Human rights and technology fellowships; Focus on Russia seminars offered as Starr Forums; Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics; Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar; SSP Wednesday Seminars.