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2017 Apr 06
RPP Colloquium Event: Beyond Militarization: The Role of Religious Communities in the Struggle for Justice and Peace
6:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave.
 
Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series Held by: Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative; Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government   Space is limited. ...
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2017 Apr 07
Building Peace in a Turbulent World
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman, 102
"Building Peace in a Turbulent World" with Nancy Lindborg, President of the United States Institute of Peace
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2017 Apr 06
I Am Jane Doe Screening & Panel Discussion (Led by Demand Abolition)
5:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Pound Hall, Rm. 102
 
The film chronicles the battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters, victims of sex trafficking on Backpage.com, the adult classifieds section that for years was part of the iconic Village Voice. The film features interviews with Demand Abolition chair and founder Ambassador Swanee Hunt, elected leaders, and our abolitionist partners across the country.
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2017 Apr 13
Lunch seminar: Tensions at the Intersection of Development Aid and Human Rights
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Carr Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK St, Cambridge MA 02138
About the seminar:
Professor Robert Wilkinson will be discussing "Tensions at the Intersection of Development Aid and Human Rights." 
Lunch will be served.
About the speaker:
 
Robert Wilkinson is a negotiation specialist, who helps organizations deal with negotiation, leadership and management challenges.  He is on the faculty at both the...
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2017 Apr 04
Lunch talk with Jieun Baek: North Korea's Hidden Revolution
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Carr Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK St, Cambridge MA 02138

Jieun Baek is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the University of Oxford, and authored North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society (Yale University Press, 2016). At this talk, Jieun will discuss her recently published book and...
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2017 Apr 10
Violence and cell phone communication patterns: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Nye A, Taubman 520, Taubman Building, 79 JFK St, Cambridge MA 02138
 
About the seminar:
"When and where will violent conflict break out?" The answer to this question is critically important to people who might fall victim to violence, to policy makers who are charged with preventing and resolving deadly disputes, and to academics who strive to understand human behavior. The social science literature on reducing political violence mostly concerns answering the question, "Which countries are likely to experience violence?" Recent research has refined geographic predictions to identify local level danger zones....
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2017 Apr 18
Lunch Seminar with Judge Mark Wolf: Grand Corruption, Violations of Human Rights, and the Need for an International Anti-Corruption Court
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Carr Center Conference Room R-219
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2017 Apr 07
Remembering the Victims of 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi: A Panel Discussion
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
B-400 LAND LECTURE HALL

 
The Rwandan Student Community at Harvard University together with the Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, the Center for African Studies and the HKS Africa Caucus 
invite you to the 23rd commemoration of the Genocide against the...
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2017 Apr 21
The View from the Military Academies: A Conversation with the Superintendents About Values, Ethics, & the Military Profession
Registration Closed 9:00am to 10:30am
Location: 
NYE A, B Taubman 5th Floor, 79 JFK Street, Harvard Kennedy School (Taubman Building)
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The View from the Military Academies:
A Conversation with the Superintendents About Values, Ethics, & the Military Profession 
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2017 Mar 08
Study Group: Human Rights Activism in the Arab Region: What Next?
Repeats every 3 weeks every Wednesday, 1 times . Also includes Wed Mar 29 2017, Wed Apr 12 2017.
4:00pm to 6:00pm
4:00pm to 6:00pm
4:00pm to 6:00pm
 
Fateh Azzam, former director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University in Beirut, will join MEI and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to lead a four-session study group during spring 2017 on the challenges and prospects for the human rights movement in the Arab region in the context of armed conflict and...
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