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Harvard Kennedy School
  • Our Work
    • Events
    • Leadership Intensives
    • News & Commentary
    • Publications
    • Student-led Events
    • Subscribe to Our Newsletter
  • Our Community
    • Alumni
    • Center Leadership
    • Faculty
    • Leadership Council
    • Staff
  • Student Fellowships
    • American Service Fellowship
    • Emirates Leadership Initiative Fellowship
    • Equity Fellowship
    • George Leadership Fellowship
    • David Gergen Summer Fellowship Program
    • Gleitsman Leadership Fellowship
    • David M. Rubenstein Fellowship
    • Wolk Israel Graduate Fellowship
    • Zuckerman Fellowship
  • Programs & Initiatives
    • Building State Capability
    • Civic Power Lab
    • Culture and Civil Society Initiative
    • Negotiate WELL Lab
    • Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory
    • Practicing Democracy Project
    • Program on Crisis Leadership
    • Social Innovation + Change Initiative
    • William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice
  • Visiting Leaders
    • Gleitsman Program in Leadership and Social Change
    • Hauser Leaders Program
  • Search
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Programs & Initiatives

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.

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Building State Capability

Building State Capability (BSC) empowers people with tools to find context appropriate solutions to their problems and improve the implementation of policies and programs.

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Civic Power Lab

The Civic Power Lab is a mixed-methods research lab studying democracy, civil society, and the organizational practices that make collective action powerful.

Anthony Foxx (left) in conversation with Wynton Marsalis (right)

Culture and Civil Society Initiative

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.

Negotiate WELL Project

Negotiate WELL Project

The Negotiate WELL Project provides negotiation resources for managers, negotiators, and educators.

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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory

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.

Professor Marshall Ganz

Practicing Democracy Project

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.

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Program on Crisis Leadership

The Program on Crisis Leadership (PCL) focuses on risk reduction, emergency preparedness, crisis response, and disaster recovery leadership challenges.

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Social Innovation + Change Initiative

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.

Professor Cornell Brooks

William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice

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.

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