U.S. stepped aside during Rwandan genocide
Samantha Power, executive director of the John F. Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, conducted a three-year-long investigation into what the United States government knew, didn’t...
View ArticleStewart named director of HKS’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Scholar, author, and activist Rory Stewart has been named director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Stewart will assume his new position on Jan. 1....
View ArticleStewart named director of HKS’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Scholar, author, and activist Rory Stewart has been named director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Stewart will assume his new position on Jan. 1....
View ArticleCarr Center awards Traub-Dicker Fellowships for summer 2009
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has awarded Traub-Dicker-HKS Fellowships for the summer of 2009 to Benjamin Hall and Baylee DeCastro. Hall and DeCastro will...
View Article‘Human Rights as Public Service’
A look back at the decade and a look around the next corner were both on the agenda at Wednesday night’s (Oct. 21) Harvard Kennedy School forum, “Why Human Rights Matter: Human Rights as Public...
View ArticleHarvard Thinks Big
The prospect of hearing 10 top Harvard instructors lecture for 10 minutes each on the subjects that they care most deeply about drew an overflow crowd to Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 11). Harvard...
View ArticleSlavery in 2010
Examples of modern-day slaves could be the workers who make our cotton shirts, pick cocoa for our chocolate, and harvest shrimp for our dinner plates while imprisoned aboard ships at sea. Enslaved...
View ArticleOut of Africa
April has brought more than showers and sunshine to Harvard; it has brought Africa. The second-largest continent is the subject this month of Harvard Africa Focus, a series of lectures, panels, and...
View ArticleMallika Kaur awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship
The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Mallika Kaur, M.P.P. ’10, the 2010-11 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. The competitive fellowship is awarded to one Harvard graduate....
View ArticleHuman rights at a crossroad
Ten years ago, the task of bringing together Harvard’s many centers and departments under the umbrella of human rights studies seemed daunting. So daunting, in fact, that a University-wide committee...
View Article‘Outstanding Women’ honored
Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds and Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), received the Outstanding Women Award from the YWCA Cambridge on Oct....
View ArticleThe hard way
Lecture-goers were so intrigued last night (Dec. 2) by “The Razor’s Edge” that they stayed beyond the allotted time to try to get all their questions in. The talk, by four people who risked their...
View Article‘Why do they hate us?’
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks created a sense of vulnerability in the United States that still persists, that transformed the nation’s Muslim community from unseen to a suspected enemy within,...
View ArticleUntold war stories
When Abby Disney was writing her dissertation on war novels at Columbia, she noticed a curious pattern: Nearly all of them were about men, by men, and in most cases, for men. But it wasn’t until she...
View ArticleFewer drops to drink
As John Briscoe tells the story, it was President John F. Kennedy who got Harvard water experts involved in Pakistan’s agricultural crisis in the 1960s. When Pakistan’s president complained about that...
View ArticleWomen as peacemakers
When three women, including Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, an alumna of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), received the Nobel Peace Prize in October, it was more than just a testament to their...
View ArticleDarkness visible
A Congolese soldier, an RPG slung over one shoulder, standing at the roadside smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a wig. In an orange dress, a young woman whose hair resembles strands of wire. The...
View ArticleThe quantum of cruelty
Five years after the review was ordered, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted earlier this month to release the executive summary from a 6,300-page report that details for the first time the...
View ArticleSlowly, shifts at the Vatican
The pace of change has sped up at the Vatican in recent months as key shifts in both personnel and tone have signaled a push by Pope Francis toward a more inclusive Catholic Church. In September, the...
View ArticleA hard look at war’s reparations
A program to help Colombian citizens heal from the murder, kidnapping, and violence of that country’s long-running civil war is the most ambitious of its kind, a new Harvard analysis says, but it’s so...
View ArticleIn anti-lynching plays, a coiled power
Many Harvard students can pinpoint a transformational moment — often a class or professor — that changed their experience at Harvard. For Magdalene “Maggie” Zier ’16, it was a book. Zier discovered...
View ArticleWorld expects ethics from American troops, service academy chiefs say
Three-quarters of the way through a panel discussion of military values and ethics, hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, moderator Alberto Mora, a senior fellow...
View Article‘Surveillance Capitalism’ author sees data privacy awakening
For the first time since 2007, Shoshana Zuboff is feeling optimistic. Zuboff, an emerita Harvard Business School professor and internet privacy advocate, said the outpouring of concern she’s seen at...
View ArticleHarvard panel reflects on the Tulsa race massacre
The upcoming centennial of the Tulsa race massacre brings a grim reminder of America’s troubled history with African Americans with a particular resonance, given the current national reckoning sparked...
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