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Icon, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy June 22: The recipients of the 2009 Gebran G. Tueni Human Rights Fellowship Awards are announced. These awards, established by a gift from the Hariri Foundation-USA, will allow two individuals from Lebanon or Iraq to conduct research at the Carr Center in the coming year.
Icon, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy June 10: The 2009 Traub-Dicker-KSG Research Fellowships are awarded. Two students selected to do research this summer on policy issues associated with the LGBT community.
Dan Kuwali June 9: 2008-09 Carr Center Fellow Dan Kuwali earns his doctoral degree. Dr. Kuwali becomes the first, and so far, the only African doctoral graduate from the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Congratulations Dan!
Timothy Patrick McCarthy June 2: Carr Center Faculty Affiliate Timothy Patrick McCarthy was awarded a Special Commendation for Excellence in Teaching at the 2009 HKS Class Day Exercises. Congratulations Tim!
Also: Professor McCarthy's 2009 Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture, “Stonewall's Children: Life, Loss, and Love after Liberation,” is now on-line.
Rory Stewart April 23: Rory Stewart and the Carr Center's State-Building and Human Rights in Afghanistan and Pakistan program organize a conference: “The Future of Afghanistan and the Region.” The meeting featured Stewart, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Michael Ignatieff, and a variety of internationally renowned analysts and thinkers.

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Rory Stewart on HKS Insight April 17: Carr Center Director Rory Stewart explains why Afghanistan has never been more important. A new interview, currently featured as part of the Harvard Kennedy School's “HKS Insight” series.
Indian donors display their scars March 25: Carr sponsored seminar brings together leading world experts to debate the arguments surrounding organ sales, trafficking, and transplant tourism. [Event Video Now Online]

In the News:

E. Benjamin Skinner June 18, 2009: Continuing to leverage heightened media awareness following the release of the State Department's TIP report, Carr Center Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner takes part in a trafficking Q&A with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Cooper's popular AC360° blog.
E. Benjamin Skinner June 16, 2009: Carr Center Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner joins Worldfocus anchor Martin Savidge in this video interview in which Skinner discusses modern slavery and how the current economic crisis is playing into the problem of human trafficking.
Cover, 2009 TIP Report June 16, 2009: U.S. State Department Releases the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report.
Leonardo Vivas May 16, 2009: Semana, Venezuela: Carr Center Fellow Leonardo Vivas is interviewed in this Colombian weekly regarding ongoing reports of abuse of power by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
Sarah Sewall April 30, 2009: The New York Times: Results of a 3-year study by a National Academy of Sciences panel, including Carr Center Program Director Sarah Sewall, are highlighted in “Panel Advises Clarifying U.S. Plans on Cyberwar.”
Rory Stewart addressing the conference. April 29, 2009: Harvard Kennedy School News: Success of the recent Carr Center conference on Afghanistan featured in today's HKS News.

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Recent Publications:

Timothy Patrick McCarthy Carr Center Faculty Affiliate Timothy Patrick McCarthy, “Finding His Roots: Barack Obama and the 1960s,” part of a special roundtable on the 2008 election in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.
Tyler Moselle Article Review: Research Associate & Program Manager, Tyler Moselle, "The Moral High Ground in an Age of Vulnerability" Human Rights & Human Welfare: Roundtable, June 2, 2009.
     • Latest installment in this series.
Dan Kuwali Journal Article: Carr Center Fellow Dan Kuwali, "The End of Humanitarian Intervention: Evaluation of the African Union’s Right of Intervention," African Journal in Conflict Resolution, Volume 9, No. 1, May 2009.
Radwan Ziadeh Journal Article: Carr Center Fellow Radwan Ziadeh, "The Kurds in Syria: Fueling Separatist Movements in the Region?" Special Report: United States Institute of Peace, SR 220, April 2009.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy Carr Center Faculty Affiliate Timothy Patrick McCarthy has just co-edited, with Zoe Trodd, a special issue of the Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2009.
Sarah Sewall Op-Ed: Sarah Sewall, Carr Center Faculty, “The Civil-Military Challenge,” The Boston Globe , January 29, 2009.
Samantha Power Periodical: Samantha Power, Carr Center Faculty, “The Enforcer: A Christian lawyer's global crusade,” The New Yorker, January 19, 2009.
Mathias Risse Working Paper: Carr Center Faculty Affiliate Mathias Risse explores the ethical dimensions of climate change in "Who Should Shoulder the Burden?" December 18, 2008.

Upcoming Events:

MARO Program Home Panel Discussion: “Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers,” Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 7:00 p.m., Boston Public Library.

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