On the Role of Solar Geoengineering in Combatting Climate Change: Harvard University vs. Indigenous Voices
In 2021 the Saami Council asked Harvard to suspend research related to stratospheric aerosol injections, a form of geoengineering.
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Russia’s Willing Collaborators: Ukraine Needs a Measured Lustration Policy to Strengthen Security and Rebuild Democracy
As Ukrainian forces aim at a major counteroffensive against Russia, the issue of collaborators, especially in Russian-occupied areas, has drawn renewed attention.
Health Rights for All: The Imperative of Including All Migrants
At the start of the 2022–2023 academic year, a group of Harvard T.H.
Going Beyond Accountability to Deter Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Prosecutions are important, but not as the main policy lever for deterrence.
Youth and LGBTQ+ Participation In Nonviolent Action
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic composition of nonviolent movements shapes their efficacy, in eithe
Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective
Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world.
Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations
Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs in key states; by building financial, legal, and electoral st
Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics
This book deals with how rights and their limits are dealt with in theories as well as in hypothetical and practical cases.
Kansas vote for abortion rights highlights disconnect between majority opinion on abortion laws and restrictive state laws being passed after Supreme Court decision
Justice Samuel Alito said that abortion policy crafted by elected representatives in the states would be more responsive to what constituents want than federal protection of the right. He was wrong.
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese American Internment during World War II
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group?
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