The Carr Center’s Most Viewed Research in 2020

Happy New Year

We hope you had a restful and safe holiday break. As we prepare for the new year and the upcoming semester, we write to share a few highlights from 2020. Tackling issues as varied as the challenges to privacy in an era of big data, reparations and economic justice, and COVID-19 recovery, our scholars' work has had an important impact in the human rights domain.

We invite you to explore the Carr Center's top publications, podcasts episodes, and event recordings from the past year below. To find more of the latest Carr Center research and work, visit our website.

2020 Publication Highlights

The Carr Center employs a multidisciplinary lens to investigate pressing human rights issues around the world. Explore our top eight publications from 2020 below.

From Rationality to Relationality: Ubuntu as an Ethical and Human Rights Framework for Artificial Intelligence Governance

Tech Fellow Sabelo Mhlambi explores how the Sub-Saharan African philosophy of ubuntu reconciles the ethical limitations of artificial intelligence.

George Floyd and the History of Police Brutality in America

Kadijatou Diallo and John Shattuck discuss the history of racist policing and violence against African Americans in the U.S.

Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Toward a More Equal Liberty

Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights provide a guide for the nation wrestling with its values.

Reimagining Social Movements and Civil Resistance during the Global Pandemic

Erica Chenoweth, Salil Shetty, and Matthew Smith outline how social movements and civil resistance can take shape in a time of social distancing, and how these efforts are more important than ever in holding governments accountable.

Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule

In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth addresses some of the common questions about the 3.5% rule, as well as several updates from more recent work on this topic.

Carr Center Annual Report: 2019-2020

The Carr Center released its 2019-2020 Annual Report that highlights its efforts to build a more just, peaceful future amid a year of multiple pandemics—health, economic, and racial.

Mass Incarceration and The Future: An Urgent Need to Address the Human Rights Implications of Criminal Background Checks and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Tech fellows Teresa Y. Hodge and Laurin Leonard examine a future where background screening decisions and artificial intelligence collide.

Examining the Coronavirus from the Lens of Human Rights

Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Mathias Risse, and Kathryn Sikkink describe how we can balance individual rights with those of the larger community and situate the current pandemic within historical contexts.

2020 Event Highlights

Reaching thousands of people each year, the Carr Center hosts a variety of events including colloquiums, seminars, study groups, film festivals and screenings, conferences, and talk series. Explore our eight most popular events below and see our calendar to join us for upcoming events.

Washington Bullets: a Conversation with Vijay Prashad about Marxism Today

Vijay Prashad discusses his book Washington Bullets, which chronicles the brutality of imperialism but also the stories of those who resisted, whose legacies inspire us today.

WATCH HERE

The Struggle for Black Lives: Historical Legacies to Future Possibilities

A conversation with two leading scholars on the history of racist policing in the U.S., the killing of black people by police and vigilantes, the role of social and civil rights movements in advocating for change, and ways in which we can envision a just future.

Watch here

Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Portals with Ruha Benjamin

A conversation with Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

WATCH HERE

Reckoning with Election 2020: Race, Violence, & the Power of New Voters

A conversation with leading scholars of racial politics about the election turnout, voter suppression, and what this means about the state of democracy today. This event is part of the Bending the Arc: A Talk Series with Dr. Megan Ming Francis.

Watch here

Kleptocrats, Coronavirus, & How to Combat Them

Panelists discuss the immediate need to enhance transparency and accountability with existing resources, and the ultimate need for an International Anti-Corruption Court to punish and deter the shameless kleptocrats that the pandemic will eventually expose.

WATCH HERE

Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

Professor Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, joins our Towards Life 3.0 speaker series for his talk "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society."

watch here

Algorithms of Oppression: A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble

As part of our Towards Life 3.0 speaker series, Dr. Sofiya discusses her book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.

WATCH HERE

Surveillance Capitalism

A conversation with distinguished panelists on how surveillance technology not only commercializes our daily experience but also accelerates existing racial and economic inequities.

watch here

2020 Podcast Highlights

From exploring the ethics of artificial intelligence to identifying underlying sources of systemic discrimination, Justice Matters Podcast investigates a wide array of human rights issues at home and abroad. Listen to our top four episodes from 2020 below.

Explaining the Dream

Alan Jenkins, Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, shares the importance of communication as it intersects with matters of race, the law, and social justice.

Listen HERE

Situating Black Internationalism at Home and Abroad

Dr. Keisha N. Blain discusses the historical context of Black internationalist movements both domestically and around the world.

LISTEN here

Philanthropy, Money, and Power

Dr. Megan Ming Francis explains how—for better or worse—philanthropic organizations have historically influenced the human rights agenda on a national and global scale.

Listen HERE

Systemic Discrimination and the LGBTQ+ Community

Victor Madrigal-Borloz, UN Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, discusses the ramifications of systemic discrimination against LGBTQ+ communities.

LISTEN here

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