United States: Main University Research Centres

This is a short guide to the main research centers of public and private universities active in the United States on the subjects of human rights, peace, non-violence, and conflict resolution.

A census of 55 centers has been conducted with general information and data concerning specific publications and online resources collected for each of them.

This guide is the English translation and expansion of the work realized by Claire Doran, student of the University of California—Berkeley, USA, during an internship at the Centre in July 2008. Carly Cassara, student of the University of California—Davis, USA, conducted the update, realized the translation and developed the guide into an accessible web tool during an internship at the Centre from January to March 2012. Jessica Bajada-Silva, a student of Boston University—Boston, USA, conducted an additional update, translation, and developed additional state profiles from September to December 2017.

California
Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center (UC Berkeley); Human Rights Center (UC Berkeley); Center for Law and Global Justice (University of San Francisco); James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (Monterey Institute of International Studies); The Mgrublian Center for Human Rights (Claremont McKenna University)
Colorado
Conflict Resolution Institute (Denver University); Conflict Information Consortium(University of Colorado, Boulder)
Connecticut
Human Rights Institute (University of Connecticut); Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights (Yale University)
Florida
Center for the Advancement of Human Rights (Florida State University)
Georgia
Carter Center (Emory University); Center for Human Rights and Democracy (Georgia State University)
Illinois
Center for the Human Rights of Children (Loyola University Chicago); Center for International Human Rights (Northwestern University); Human Rights Program (University of Chicago); International Human Rights Law Institute (DePaul University)
Indiana
Center for Civil and Human Rights (University of Notre Dame)
Iowa
Center for Human Rights (University of Iowa)
Massachusetts
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (Harvard University); Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (Tufts University); Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights (Suffolk University); Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University); Center for Human Rights and International Justice (Boston College); Program on Human Rights and Justice (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard University)
Minnesota
Human Rights Center (University of Minnesota)
New Jersey
Center for Global Women's Leadership (Rutgers University); Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights (Rutgers University); University Center for Human Values (Princeton University); The OCC Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education (Ocean County Community College)
New York
Buffalo Human Rights Center (University at Buffalo); Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research (Columbia University); Institute for the Study of Human Rights (Columbia University); Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (Columbia University); International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (Teachers College); Human Rights Institute (Columbia University); Center for International Conflict Resolution (Columbia University); Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (New York University); Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (Fordham University); Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights (Cornell University)
North Carolina
Duke Human Rights Center (Duke University)
Ohio
Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights (University of Cincinnati); Peace Resource Center (Wilmington College)
Texas
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (University of Texas, Austin)
Washington
Center for Human Rights (University of Washington)
Washington, D.C.
Human Rights Institute (Georgetown University); Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (American University)
Wyoming
Center for International Human Rights Law and Advocacy (University of Wyoming)

Last update

7/3/2012