John Tirman was an American political theorist and scholar.
19 Facts About John Tirman
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John Tirman was executive director and principal research scientist at the MIT Center for International Studies at the time of his death.
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John Tirman frequently contributed to AlterNet, The Huffington Post, and The Boston Globe.
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John Tirman edited two books on "Star Wars", the strategic defense initiative started by President Ronald Reagan.
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John Tirman frequently wrote on the issue for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and other publications.
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John Tirman headed the Henry P Kendall Foundation and the CarEth Foundation in the mid- to late 1990s, and was an editor for a peace movement magazine, Nuclear Times.
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In 1999, John Tirman was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to work on conflict resolution in Cyprus, and produced an educational website on the conflict, "The Cyprus Conflict".
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John Tirman headed the Program on Global Security and Cooperation with colleague Itty Abraham.
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John Tirman moved to MIT in 2004, where his work mainly focused on US policy in the Persian Gulf.
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In 2005, John Tirman commissioned the Iraq Mortality Study that was published in The Lancet in October 2006.
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John Tirman wrote frequently on the topic, including articles for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The New York Times, AlterNet, and other publications.
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At MIT, John Tirman undertook several projects on US-Iran relations, publishing a white paper in 2009 on a "New Approach to Iran" for the New Ideas Fund that urged greater accommodation and criticized America's militant attitudes toward Iran.
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John Tirman convened conferences and published on the regional dimension of the Iraq War, the role of terrorism in upsetting diplomatic relations, and the challenges of political instability in the Gulf.
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John Tirman brought to MIT such Iranian figures as President Mohammad Khatami, former deputy foreign minister Abbas Maleki, former reform parliamentarian Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, and dissident Akbar Ganji.
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John Tirman was part of an informal group of activists and intellectuals advising the Clinton administration on Turkey's human rights record in the late 1990s.
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John Tirman published this view in "How We Ended the Cold War," an essay in The Nation that has been widely cited and reproduced.
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John Tirman published several short pieces on the topic, including articles in Alternet, the New York Times, the Washington Spectator, Washington Post, and Boston Review.
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John Tirman served as board co-chair of the Foundation for National Progress, which publishes Mother Jones magazine; US chair of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting; and trustee of International Alert.
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John Tirman died from cardiac arrest on August 19,2022, at the age of 72.