Shafiqul Islam
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Professor of Engineering & Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy @TuftsUniversity @WaterDiplomacy #BigData #Scales #Uncertainty #PrincipledPragmatism
Joined January 2011
We are pleased to see our #Water #Diplomacy book translated in #Chinese by #China Ministry of Water Resources, and Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences and published by the Science Press of China.
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Our Overfitted Century, by @erikphoel
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Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution
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Please feel free to download an open-access version of the Handbook and let us build a community of #water #diplomats who are apt in thinking, feeling, and doing with #PrincipledPragmatism
Co-edited by Professor Shafiqul Islam, PhD student Kevin Smith and collaborators, The Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy provides guiding principles and practical tools to support scientifically credible and politically feasible water solutions. https://t.co/MAaqBfsuCa
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How did an unknown candidate win NYC? By thinking like an engineer & acting like a diplomat. Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows how listening, using data, and reframing can build shared purpose—even across ideological divides. Not politics. A case study in #Engineering #Diplomacy
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Not every fact is pure science or pure opinion. Some are chimeric: part measurable, part meaningful. When we treat them as one or the other, we delay action. The Engineer-Diplomat helps align them for actionability. When Facts Are Chimeras: How Engineer-Diplomat Act?
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How do we engineer a river in the Netherlands and plan a city block in Barcelona using #EngineeringDiplomacy #PrincipledPragmatism @tufts @RadInstitute @XEng @TuftsEngineer
How many more times do we need to watch science warn us while society fails to act? The next flood, fire, or drought will come. The only choice is whether we repeat the past or act differently. That’s exactly what I’ll be exploring in my Radcliffe talk at Harvard on Wednesday
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How many more times do we need to watch science warn us while society fails to act? The next flood, fire, or drought will come. The only choice is whether we repeat the past or act differently. That’s exactly what I’ll be exploring in my Radcliffe talk at Harvard on Wednesday
radcliffe.harvard.edu
A presentation from 2025–2026 Radcliffe fellow Shafiqul Islam
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The way we define a problem largely determines our approach and success in solving it. There's a famous saying often attributed to Albert Einstein: If I had an hour to save the world, I'd spend 55 minutes defining the problem and 5 minutes solving it. Look at today's Substack
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Politicians now talk of climate 'pragmatism' to delay action— https://t.co/Evnzz6ZSjX via @physorg_com What we need is #PrincipledPragmatism for actionability...
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to "maximize extraction" of the UK's oil and gas from the North Sea as a "common sense" energy policy.
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When #Water Becomes #Weapons
#WaterDiplomacy in a Leaderless #World Look for tomorrow's posting at #EngineeringDiplomacy Substack
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Engineering Diplomacy in Action: Remote Sensing for Participatory Water Decisions How do we turn satellite data and hydrologic models into decisions that communities can trust and act on? At this year’s AGU Annual Meeting, I’ll introduce Engineering Diplomacy—a framework that
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Check out my latest article: Engineering Diplomacy in Action: From Cape Town to Bangladesh https://t.co/dpN6OFdECV via @LinkedIn
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Let me share two short, actionable stories that spotlight how Engineering Diplomacy and Principled Pragmatism help us navigate complex collective action problems: One at the individual level and one...
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