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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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    Carr Center's 2016 Annual Report
    Sarah Peck. 12/21/2016. Carr Center's 2016 Annual Report. Cambridge : Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. See full text.Abstract
    See the Carr Center's 2016 Annual Report.

    Today we stand at a precipice. A critical fight for fundamental human rights is brewing, and our work to find policy solutions to the most pressing human rights issues has never been more urgent. These issues include economic justice; human security; equality and discrimination; and institutions of global governance and civil society. We leverage research, practice, leadership and communications and technology to enhance global justice and to address all four of these priority issues.

    2016 saw a number of important victories for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, engaging our outstanding faculty members, fellows and students. We hosted a two-day symposium on the future of human rights and technology, convening a diverse group of practitioners working on these issues. And we organized a conference exploring the strategic costs and consequences of the use of torture.

    2017 presents new challenges, but also new opportunities to engage and collaborate to ensure respect for our most fundamental rights and freedoms. We will continue to work tirelessly, as we have for the past 15 years, to enhance global justice – and we hope that you will join us in this critically important work.

    Download our 2016 annual report to learn more. 

    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 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

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    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 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 WilkinsonRobert 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 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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    Hungary’s Attack on Academic Freedom
    John Shattuck. 4/3/2017. “Hungary’s Attack on Academic Freedom”.Abstract
    See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.

    An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is threatening a renowned international university in Budapest. Legislation introduced last week by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban would fundamentally alter the legal status of Central European University and could force it to shut down or leave the country.

    What’s going on in Hungary is not a local political dispute, but a frontal assault on liberal values essential to democracy and academic freedom.

    Full Op-Ed here.

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