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The Carr Center recently hosted a film screening of the documentary 20 Days in Mariupol as part of our “Human Rights in Film” series, which uses film to explore the…
It is with profound sadness that I report the passing of our incoming Carr Center Fellow Brooke Ellison. Brooke was the first quadriplegic student to graduate from Harvard College…
The violence in Israel and Gaza has heightened tensions worldwide—including on college campuses across the United States. With both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel students facing…
In 2023, the international community celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The creation of such a document—its mere existence—must…
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In 2021 the Saami Council asked Harvard to suspend research related to stratospheric aerosol injections, a form of geoengineering. Their intervention raises far-reaching questions…
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at…
In contrast to China’s enormous efforts to upgrade its system of governance to a new technological level built around a stupefying amount of data collection and electronic scoring…
Located at the intersection of political philosophy, philosophy of technology and political history, this essay reflects on medium and long-term prospects and challenges for…
Data ownership is power. Who should hold that power? How should data be owned? The importance of data ownership explains why it has been analogized to other domains where…