Our programs and initiatives translate theory into applied practice in fresh ways and ask critical questions. Through scholarship, education, and practice, we interrogate and explore what it means to lead and serve with the goal of creating a more equitable and just world.
Building State Capability (BSC) empowers people with tools to find context appropriate solutions to their problems and improve the implementation of policies and programs.
The Culture and Civil Society Initiative (CCSI) seeks to deepen understanding of the ways culture, broadly defined, shapes national narrative, fosters social cohesion, and lays a foundation for democratic societies to flourish.
The Leadership and Happiness Laboratory conducts integrative research and creates educational resources for leaders in all sectors to learn the science of happiness, apply it in their own lives, and share it with others.
The Negotiate WELL Project provides negotiation resources for managers, negotiators, and educators.
The Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory (NCRC) develops ways to connect students of negotiation with practitioners on the frontlines and faculty leading cutting-edge research.
The Practicing Democracy Project (PDP) enables people to work together to develop the leadership, build the community, and create the power to fulfill the democratic promise of equal, inclusive, and collective agency.
The Program on Crisis Leadership (PCL) focuses on risk reduction, emergency preparedness, crisis response, and disaster recovery leadership challenges.
The Social Innovation + Change Initiative (SICI) hosts the New World Social Innovation Fellowship: a rigorous co-curricular program for path makers, change makers, and pioneers committed to addressing pressing social problems in new and creative ways.
The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice utilizes applied research to foster advocacy and citizen activism at Harvard Kennedy School and across Harvard University.