we created this center at Harvard's Kennedy School to apply first-class research to the solution of human rights policy problems. The Carr Center's research, teaching and writing are guided by a commitment to make human rights principles central to the formulation of good public policy in the United States and throughout the world.

The Center has developed a unique focus of expertise on the most dangerous and intractable human rights challenges of the new century, including genocide, mass atrocity, state failure and the ethics and politics of military intervention.