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    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.

    Technology & Human Rights Fellowship

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    The Technology and Human Rights Fellowship is part of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy’s project to examine how technological advances over the next several decades will affect the future of human life, as well as the protections provided by the human rights framework.

    The project invites applications from individuals to affiliate with the Center for one academic year to conduct research on the ethical and...

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    Fellowship Opportunities

    Tap into opportunities at the Carr Center. 

    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. 

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    United Nations Student Delegation

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    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School seeks applications from students to participate in a special delegation to the United Nations in New York for the occasion of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. 

    The trip, being held over two full days and will include meetings with senior UN policymakers, with a particular focus on the Rights of Indigenous...

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    This Is What Will Happen If Trump Brings Back Secret Prisons
    Kathryn Sikkink and Avery Schmitt. 2/10/2017. “This Is What Will Happen If Trump Brings Back Secret Prisons.” The Washington Post .Abstract
    An analysis, in The Washington Post, from Carr Center's Kathryn Sikkink and research fellow Avery Schmitt.

    "Amid the flurry of executive orders issued by President Trump during his first week in office, one remains a work in progress. A draft version of the executive order on the “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants” has been leaked. It is a complex document with many provisions — all appeared designed to make it possible for the Trump administration to return to Bush policy of secret kidnapping, detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists.

    Although the Trump administration has publicly backed away from some aspects of the order, Trump’s decision to appoint Gina Haspel — who has been accused of running one of the Bush era secret prisons that tortured inmates — as deputy head of the CIA suggests that Trump continues to be interested in returning to past practices. The mixed signals coming from the administration mean that it is still important to explain what a return of the secret prison system might mean."

    Full article at The Washington Post. 

    Topol Research Fellowship

    Now accepting applications for the 2021 Topol Research Fellowship.

    About the Opportunity

    The Topol Research Fellowship provides recognition and support to Harvard Kennedy School students interested in and committed to nonviolent action. It is made possible by the generous support of entrepreneur, philanthropist, and peace activist Sidney Topol and the Topol Family Foundation.

    The Topol Fellowship's goal is to help students develop a more robust, evidence-based, and comprehensive understanding of nonviolent resistance movements and deepen...

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    Human Rights Summer Internship Fund

    *Applications Open March 2021*

    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.

    What:

    The Carr Center will provide financial support to selected first-year HKS graduate students who have secured a summer...

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