At Brandeis
The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life is located at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The Center works to honor and build on the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, for whom the university is named, by providing opportunities for members of the extended Brandeis community to contribute to meaningful changes in the world.
The Center's on-campus mission is to reinforce deep and sustained consideration of issues of ethics, coexistence, 
and justice as a central and dynamic feature of Brandeis University, encouraging a climate of balanced consideration, creative response, and ethical reflection on those issues.
A hallmark of the work of the Center is the involvement of scholars and students from many parts of Brandeis University. The Center sponsors the Sorensen Fellowship, which support Brandeis sophomores and juniors to implement a project of their own design as an intern in the organization of their choice, anywhere in the world.
Center staff also teach courses in the undergraduate Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies minor.
The Center initiates and co-sponsors on-campus events related to our mission. These events feature prominent speakers and activists discussing issues of ethics and social justice and shaping responses to conflict throughout the world.
Previous campus events have included
- 9/11 - Reflections Five Years Later;
- The Long View; Local Action/Global Impact;
- Telling the Story; Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle;
- The Challenge of the UN Gaza Report, a forum with Justice Richard Goldstone and former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold; and
- Changing People in a Changing Climate? The Ethical Implications of Climate Disruption.
Tapping the expertise of its staff, students, and campus visitors, the Center produces a variety of publications on topics such as coexistence/peacebuilding, ethics, human rights, social activism, international justice, politics, and religion.
In collaboration with a Brandeis faculty member, the Center’s Distinguished Practitioner Residency program brings respected practitioners in any field to campus for several days to examine the ethical challenges and dilemmas of that field. Distinguished Practitioners are in residence at Brandeis from three to five days, to offer public events, visit classes, and engage students interested in pursuing a career in their field. Distinguished Practitioners include
- Dr. Mohamed Bakarr, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya. Sponsored by David Engerman of the International and Global Studies Department, and Dan Perlman of the Biology Department;
- Dr. Rosa Elena Bello, Founder and Director of Community Medical Services in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Sponsored by Kelley Ready of the Heller School and Margaret Morganroth Gullette of the Women’s Studies Research Center;
- Dr. William Haglund, United Nations Senior Forensic Advisor for the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and Senior Consultant to Physicians for Human Rights. Sponsored by Elizabeth Ferry of the Anthropology Department;
- Dr. Brian Williams, epidemiologist for the World Health Organization in Geneva. Sponsored by Irving Epstein of the Chemistry Department; and
- Hoseob Yoon, a Korean artist specializing in incorporating environmental themes into his work in education and design. Sponsored by Eric Olson of the Heller School.
In addition, the Center mentors students from the Middle East at Brandeis through the Sylvia and Joseph Slifka Israeli Coexistence Scholarship, the Judd and Jennifer Malkin Israeli Scholarship, and the Seeds of Peace alumni scholarship.