Carr Center Fellowships offer scholars and practitioners the opportunity to spend a semester or year at Harvard conducting research, sharing experiences with students, and exploring critical human rights issues with a distinguished group of peers.
Please note we are not accepting new fellows at this time. You can sign up for the Carr Center mailing list or visit our website in the fall to receive updates on new opportunities as they become available.
Since its founding in 1999, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School has been a leading research center that has focused on some of the most intractable challenges facing the world, including genocide, torture, violence against women, and human trafficking. The Center was founded by director Michael Ignatieff, currently President of Central European University, and Executive Director Samantha Power, who was later U.S. Ambassador to the UN.
In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human...
The Carr Center's Human Rights Summer Internship Fund supports Harvard Kennedy School students seeking to further their interest in human rights through research and first-hand experiences with our summer internship grant program.
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The Carr Center will provide financial support to selected first-year HKS graduate students who have secured a summer...
From exploring the ethics of artificial intelligence to identifying underlying sources of systemic discrimination, Justice Matters Podcast investigates a wide array of human rights issues at home and abroad. Join our host, Sushma Raman, as she and our guests confront, challenge, and explore human rights matters with a multidisciplinary lens.
The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) data project is the first of its kind to collect systematic data on both violent insurgencies and nonviolent civil resistance campaigns. The coverage is global, but it is limited to maximalist campaigns, meaning those which seek to overthrow an incumbent government, to expel a foreign military occupation, or to secede from an existing state.
NAVCO now has multiple published versions, as well as several others in progress. All versions and supporting materials can be found on the project’s...
