Since the colonial era, when Congo was under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium, foreign powers have been not only pillaging…
Does shaming human rights violators shape attitudes at home? A growing literature studies the effect of
shaming on public attitudes in the…
Each year, we celebrate International Human Rights Day on December 10—the day that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was…
The Carr Center's Human Rights Defenders have joined us from Venezuela, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Russia…
On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century.…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
Erica Chenoweth is the Academic Dean for Faculty Development and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy…
Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.
An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is…
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and…