As part of its mission to amplify the work of other scholars and activists, the Nonviolent Action Lab is building an annotated compendium of data sets relevant to the analysis of nonviolent action, other forms of contentious collective action, state responses to them, and their effects and effectiveness. In traditional fashion, each entry in the compendium will describe what the data set covers, how it was produced, and how to access it. More novelly, each entry will also apply lenses from critical theory related to gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, and state-centrism to...
Producing and disseminating knowledge on nonviolent action
The Nonviolent Action Lab produces and disseminates up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure. The world is facing numerous crises that demand urgent and effective nonviolent action. Movements worldwide are fighting global inaction on climate change, discrimination against refugee and immigrant communities fleeing war and hardship, and rising global inequality. At the same time, the very institution of democracy is under threat. Over...
Producing and disseminating knowledge on nonviolent action
The Nonviolent Action Lab studies how people can create transformative social and political change without resorting to violence. In so doing, we produce public goods for activists, citizens, scholars, and students who want to know where nonviolent collective action occurs, and to analyze or learn about global trends in its forms, dynamics, and impacts.
Numerous regional and global crises—the global pandemic, climate change, structural racism and discrimination, economic...
A number of HKS research centers and initiatives are interested in supporting students conducting their Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) or Second Year Policy Analysis (SYPA) by providing small grants to help defray the cost of travel or research in the event the student's client is not able to provide funding. Applications will only be accepted through this process for PAE or SYPA funding.
The Carr Center community includes leading scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, exploring issues including artificial intelligence, corruption, migration, trafficking, and torture. Our experts embrace backgrounds ranging from diplomacy to business and social responsibility, and to technology and ethics.
