A few weeks ago, I hosted 45 people at my Brookline home in support of my friend, Northeastern University Professor, Amir Grinstein, a Convisero mentor, who created a startup initiative of Israeli and Palestinian young entrepreneurs called 50:50. It has just formally joined forced with Tel Aviv University entrepreneurial program, jumpTAU.

Many positive outcomes. I linked one of their initiatives, an orthodontics project, to Tufts Dental School and Samia Abdul Aziz, a graduate of the school, a former EPIIC student and to my personal dentist, an Emirati national, Abdulla Alghfeli. Another, a negotiation civil rights initiative to the Abraham Initiative, whose executive directors I will host in my home in mid November. I had invited 15 of our community to advise and interact with them and Amir is now friends with another Convisero mentor, Bhashkar Chakravorti.

One serendipitous meeting that evening now has linked 50:50 member Mohammed El-Khatib,a Reichman University undergraduate directing their Pugwash chapter with one of my current interns, David Rubin, a Dartmouth senior, who, at my instigation, has created a thriving Pugwashian chapter at his college. Together they will work with SaiU's Indian chapter that I created with my TA Jyotsna Badrinarayanan.

In 2016, I made a pledge before the hundreds of alumni who came to our 30th anniversary gala and to the directors Belfer Center for Technology and Global Affairs at Harvard to revive Pugwash. I now sit on the external advisory board for the ISYP's executive board. Talia Weiss, who I recruited when she was an MIT student, now a Ph.D. student at Yale, has just been named ISYP director. Details can be found on Trebuchet’s nonproliferation efforts