Artis International Senior Research Fellow, Angel Gomez, has won a prestigious European Research Council grant, under the Horizon 2020 funding initiative. Angel’s proposal involves the introduction and empirical testing of “the first comprehensive multi-theoretical framework for the study of radicalization leading to violence, and de-radicalization”. Specifically, Angel’s award will fund efforts to: Develop a multi-theory…
Yun Reginaldo Chayax Huex, a leader of the Itza’ people of San José Petén, Guatemala, and founder of the Bio-Itza’ Forest Reserve and Language School, died from Covid-19 at the age of 81 on 1 October 2020. Married to Na’ix María Espectación Tesucún Chan, he had 10 children, 28 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. The Itza’,…
The following testimony was written by Jacob Beser, and was intended to be delivered as the keynote for the 6th International SAMPE, Electronic Materials and Processes Conference in 1992. During the Second World War, Mr Beser served as a radar specialist in the US Army Air Force and was a member of the flight crew…
“Artis and its associated universities (University of Oxford, University of Michigan, Arizona State University) has been a strong supporter of the Minerva Initiative, up by Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense Defense under both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, to “understand the countries or cultures we are dealing with.” The program should continue for…
