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Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Projects & Initiatives

The Center’s research projects and initiatives seek to promote legal research and social science-oriented methodologies, ethics, and theories by producing and supporting theoretical and applied research that investigates and models ways to promote, protect, and defend human rights.  The Center works with partners to create and support opportunities for research organized around robust interdisciplinary agendas for academic audiences, human rights practitioners, and other stakeholders.