In the News:

	November 6: NPR's Morning Edition, NPR's Rennee Montagne and Andrew Wilder, research director at Tufts University's Feinstein International Center and associate fellow with the Carr Center's Afghanistan & Pakistan program, discuss problems associated with distributing aid dollars in Afganistan. Download Audio >
	November 5: The Huffington Post, President Karzai has promised to rule inclusively after his contested victory but, as Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell points out, this must mean more than just how he forms his government. Read why in “ Karzai Must Heal Afghanistan's Divisions.”
	November 5: Middle East Online, Carr center fellow Rima Merhi discusses why Washington needs a different lens to see Lebanon and Hezbollah in “US should Make a U-turn on its Approach to Hezbollah.”
	November 4: Foreign Policy, Carr Center Fellow Gerard Russell notes that recent Afgan elections could be the country's undoing or a good start for much-needed reform. See “The Avoidable Death of Afghan Democracy.”
	October 27: Time Magazine, As Carr Center Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner notes in “Pakistan's Forgotten Plight: Modern-Day Slavery,” humanitarian issues in the region go well beyond what we see in the headlines.
	October 27: The Financial Times, In “Afghans Need to Find Model of Democracy,” Carr Center Fellow Paul Fishstein points out just how unclear the word 'Democracy' is for many in Afghanistan.
	October 26: The Harvard Gazette, Carr Center's 10th Anniversary Forum event, “Human Rights as Public Service,” featured in The Harvard Gazette. Event video coverage >
	October 22: The Harvard Crimson, Center's 10th Anniversary event is noted by The Crimson. Event video coverage >

What's New:

	November 3: Jasteena Dhillon, Fellow, State-Building and Human Rights, Afghanistan & Pakistan Program, discusses her views on the next steps for the Obama administration on rule of law, counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency on a panel with Andrew Bacevich at Boston University Law School. (4 pm)
	October 23: Students host inaugural meeting of the “Afghan Student Initiative.”
	October 22: Matt Waldman, Fellow in the Center's State Building and Human Rights Program, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
	October 21: HKS Institute of Politics Video Archive, Complete video coverage of the Carr Center's 10th Anniversary Forum conversation, “Why Human Rights Matter: Human Rights as Public Service” is now available. See the Video >
	October 21: Carr Center sponsors 2 Interactive Immersion Activities in the upcoming January Session: "Human Rights Advocacy Using Video" and "Human Rights, Development, and International Politics." Click here to find out more.
	October 17: Press Release, Washington Institute, “The Crisis of Islamic Civilization” by Carr Center Fellow Ali A. Allawi wins the Washington Institute Book Prize silver medal. Purchase Information >
	October 13: The Carr Center announces a new Latin American Initiative. Directed by Prof. Leonardo Vivas, the initiative seeks to serve as a focal point (promotion, connection, awareness) for Latin American Human Rights issues within the Harvard community. Student Involvement Welcome!
	October 9: The Huffington Post, Timothy McCarthy, Harvard Kennedy School Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Carr Center's Human Rights and Social Movements Program, becomes a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. Read His First Posting >

Upcoming Events:

	Panel Discussion: How social and demographic issues affect the military and the its relationship with society. Sarah Sewall is a panelist. MSNBC's Rachal Maddow Moderates. - Saturday, November 7, 2009, 3:45 pm, Robsham Theatre, Boston College.    TODAY!
	Film screening of Africa Rising, a film by Paula Heredia followed by a Q&A hosted by Swanee Hunt - Monday, November 9, 2009, 6:00 pm, Weiner Auditorium.
	LATAM Speaker Series: "Youth Civic Culture in Mexico: When the future of democracy is in the hands of the young" with Dr. Fernando Reimers, Director, HSE International Education Policy Program. - Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2:00 pm, Carr Center Conference Room.
	Discussion Series: Innovative Strategies in the Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery-Facilitated by Katherine Chon(HKS students only) - Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 6:00 pm, Carr Center Conference Room.
	Lecture Series - ACT-ing UP: The Power of AIDS Activism: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden and the Disenfranchised - Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:00 pm, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts.
	Panel Discussion, "62 Years of Unrest: Regional and International Ramifications of the Kashmir Conflict," moderated by Dr. Sugata Bose. Part of the Kashmir Initiative Speaker Series. - Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:30 pm, Gundle Family Classroom (L-230).
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Recent Publications:

	Magazine Feature: “Responsible Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Tyler Moselle, Research & Program Asssociate - Homeland Security Today, October 1, 2009.
	Magazine Feature: “Do the Right Thing: A Genocide Policy That Works,” Sarah Sewall, Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of Mass Atrocity Response Operations and National Security & Human Rights Programs - Boston Review, September 15, 2009.
	Magazine Feature: “The Irresistible Illusion,” Rory Stewart, Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and Carr Center Faculty Director - London Review of Books, July 9, 2009.
	Book: “The National Security Court System: A Natural Evolution of Justice in an Age of Terror,” Glenn Sulmasy, 2007-08 Carr Center fellow - (Oxford University Press) July 6, 2009.
	Magazine Feature: “Flipping the Taliban,” Fotini Christia, Faculty Affiliate, State Building Program - Foreign Affairs, July 1, 2009.
	Review: “The Moral High Ground in an Age of Vulnerability,” Tyler Moselle, Research & Program Asssociate - Human Rights & Human Welfare: Roundtable, June 2, 2009.
	Journal Article: “Finding His Roots: Barack Obama and the 1960s,” Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Human Rights & Social Movements Program - The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, June 1, 2009.
	Journal Article: “The Fight to End Global Slavery,” E. Benjamin Skinner, 2008-09 Carr Center Fellow - MIT: World Policy Journal, June 1, 2009.
	Book: “Persuasive Prevention: Implementation of the AU Right to Intervention,” Dan Kuwali, 2008-09 Carr Center Fellow - (Unpublished Thesis: In Fulfilment of Requirements for Dr. Juris, Lund University, Faculty of Law) May 1, 2009.
	Book: “The Crisis of Islamic Civilization,” Ali Allawi, Carr Center Fellow, 2009-10 - (Yale University Press) April 28, 2009.