Human Rights and Social Activism
The following Ethics Center publications dealing with human rights and social activism can be requested by completing the online publication request form.
Human Rights Culture: The Political and Spiritual Crisis
A lecture delivered during Michael Ignatieff's January 2000 residency at the Ethics Center. Multiple hard copies available for classroom use
Local Action/Global Impact: An Interactive Forum
A 44-page publication chronicling 11 of the 14 sessions that made up the February 2005 forum of the same name. "Local Action/Global Impact" was a five-day series of events exploring the interplay of local action and global change. The main body of the publication comes from session summaries and conclusions written by some of the 500 undergraduate students who attended the forum.
Telling the Story: Power and Responsibility in Documenting Human Rights Violations
An 83-page publication chronicling the September 2005 conference of the same name. "Telling the Story" brought together journalists, filmmakers, artists, forensic specialists, legal practitioners and scholars to analyze the process by which human rights violations are documented and the reasons they are made public.