About the HRRC
The Connecticut / Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC) provides an international, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional platform to promote and support academic collaboration between researchers and research groups at universities and other research institutions in the State of Connecticut (USA) and the Land Baden-Württemberg (Germany).
Research Areas
The Consortium is designed to serve as an incubator for diverse and interdisciplinary human rights research projects, generate critical knowledge on key human rights-related issues, and disseminate its findings. Research areas include:
- Artificial intelligence
- Biotechnology
- Democratic institutions in the face of authoritarianism
- Conflict management
- Human rights education in the age of social media
- Human rights, geopolitics, and global society
- Media and public discourse analysis
- Migration, including labor migration and forced migration
- Philosophical foundations of human rights
- Social justice and solidarity
Involvement
The Human Rights Research Consortium aims to support collaboration and provide information access in research, education, public discourse, and political decision-making.
In concrete terms, the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium contributes to:
- Building inter-state, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research networks through active transatlantic working groups, video conference meetings, and periodic in-person conferences
- Promoting faculty mobility and providing fellowships as well as opportunities for postgraduate and graduate exchange
- Supporting collaborative grant writing
- Providing educational and curriculum assistance on human rights issues for secondary and college/university education
- Creating publicly accessible online resources on critical human rights issues and for human rights education
- Disseminating research findings through publications
- Providing ad hoc advice to political decision-makers
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