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    Conference Report: Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence
    Carr Center Human Rights for Policy. 1/1/2019. “Conference Report: Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence.” Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence. See full text.Abstract
    Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges for the Next 70 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

    In early December 2018, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society hosted an inaugural conference that aimed to respond to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 70th Anniversary by reflecting on the past, present and future of human rights. The conference was organized by Carr Center Faculty Director Mathias Risse.

    Conference Report: Technology & Human Rights in the 21st Century
    Steven Livingston and Sushma Raman. 2/21/2017. “Conference Report: Technology & Human Rights in the 21st Century.” Technology & Human Rights in the 21st Century. Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. See full text.Abstract
    Technology and Human Rights Conference Report
    Technology & Human Rights in the 21st Century:
     

    On November 3 - 4, 2016, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium that aimed to:

    1. Strengthen collaboration among stakeholders working on issues at the intersection of human rights and technology and

    2. Deepen our understanding of the nature of collaboration among different technical and scientific communities working in human rights.

    The symposium brought together practitioners and academics from different industries, academic disciplines and professional practices. Discussion centered on three clusters of scientific and technical capacities and the communities of practice associated with each of them. These clusters are:

    • Geospatial Technology: The use of commercial remote sensing satellites, geographical information systems (GIS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and geographical positioning satellites (GPS) and receivers to track events on earth.
       
    • Digital Networks: The use of digital platforms to link individuals in different locations working towards a common goal, such as monitoring digital evidence of human rights violations around the world. It often involves crowdsourcing the collection of data over digital networks or social computation – the analysis of data by volunteers using digital networks.
       
    • Forensic Science: The collection, preservation, examination and analysis of evidence of abuses and crimes for documentation, reconstruction, and understanding for public and court use. Among the more prominent evidential material in this area includes digital and multimedia evidence as well as corporal and other biologic evidence.  When considering the use of digital technologies, we might say that forensic science involves the recoding of material objects into binary code. This domain includes massively parallel DNA sequencing technologies as well as document scanning and data management technologies.

    In their landmark 1998 book, Activists Beyond Borders, Kathryn Sikkink and Margaret Keck wrote that “by overcoming the deliberate suppression of information that sustains many abuses of power, human rights groups bring pressure to bear on those who perpetuate abuses” (Keck and Sikkink, 1998, Kindle Locations 77-78).  The Carr Center’s symposium on technology and human rights explored the ways modern human rights organization use science and technology to overcome the deliberate suppression of information.

    Speakers discussed the latest advances in each of the key technologies represented at the symposium and used today by human rights organizations.

    Steven Livingston and Sushma Raman co-organized the event. Livingston is Senior Fellow at the Carr Center and Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University; Raman is the Executive Director of the Carr Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

    Full online version here.

     

    2018 Oct 26

    Conference: The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at 20 - Looking Back and Looking Forward

    Registration Closed 11:30am to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA

    iccThe Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at 20: Looking Back and Looking Forward


    A conference hosted by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
    Harvard Kennedy School

    The adoption of the Rome Statute 20 years ago was a historic achievement in the global quest for justice and peace...

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    2016 Oct 07

    Conference: The Strategic Consequences of Torture

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Cambridge

    The Strategic Consequences of Torture Conference is the Carr Center's premier event around our research on the policy implications of the use of torture. Carr will bring together the top policymakers, academics, and military leaders to engage around the challenges and questions posed by the use of torture.

    More information can be found on the Conference Website.

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    2018 Apr 02

    Contentious Narratives: Digital Technology and the Attack on Liberal Democratic Norms

    (All day)

    Location: 

    The George Washington University, Washington, District Of Columbia 20052

    contentiousnarratives

    The conference focuses on the effects of disinformation on peacebuilding and on efforts to document human rights abuse and war crimes. Trolls, bots — bits of computer code designed to augment social media activities — have emerged as disruptive elements...

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