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    2020 Oct 16

    Algorithms of Oppression: A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble

    Registration Closed 3:00pm to 4:00pm

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    Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy featuring prominent scholars, business and technology leaders, public interest technologists, and activists who address the ethical and rights implications of the impact of Artificial Intelligence on society and human life. The title of the series draws inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

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    Nonviolent Action Lab

    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...

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    Resistance Atlas

    In early 2021, the Lab expects to launch an interactive dashboard that will allow users to explore historical and contemporary cases of nonviolent resistance around the world.

    Crowd Counting Consortium 


    The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) turns publicly available information on protests, marches, demonstrations, rallies, strikes, and other political crowds in the United States into structured data.

    The CCC emerged from a collaborative effort between Lab founder Erica Chenoweth and the University of Connecticut’s Jeremy Pressman to produce an accurate estimate of the number of people who participated in the Women's March on Washington and its affiliated Sister Marchers worldwide on January 21, 2017. Several of their colleagues expressed an interest in...

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    Nonviolent & Violent Campaigns & Outcomes (NAVCO)

    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...

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    Women in Resistance (WiRe)

    The Women in Resistance (WiRe) Dataset catalogues women’s participation in 338 maximalist resistance campaigns, meaning campaigns that call for the toppling of an oppressive government or for territorial self-determination. The dataset identifies both nonviolent and violent maximalist campaigns in every country in the world from 1945 to 2014, providing a comprehensive and systematic look at various dimensions of women's participation in both types of campaigns.

    The WiRe dataset and supporting materials can be found on the project’s...

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    Defending Digital Dissent 


    The Lab plans to provide up-to-date resources, information guides, and toolkits for people involved in activism, organizing, and dissent to help them protect their digital networks, accounts, and platforms
    2020 Nov 05

    Philanthropy and Inequality

    Registration Closed 1:30pm to 2:30pm

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    Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice. 

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    • Dr. Carmen Rojas | President and CEO, Marguerite...
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    2020 Oct 22

    Extractive Injustice and Grand Corruption

    Registration Closed 1:30pm to 2:30pm

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    Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice. 

    Panelists:

    • Camila Nobrega | Brazilian journalist ...
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