DHRC at KIE

The Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics is home to an interdisciplinary international human rights community at Duke University. Central to its mission is promoting faculty-led collaborations that both transcend traditional departmental boundaries and bridge the often separate spheres of research, advocacy and policy in international human rights, directly engaging graduate and undergraduate students in scholarship and practice.

Our university-wide scholarly conversations, collaborations and programming explore the intersections of the humanities and social sciences with law, politics, and ethics, bringing together policy makers and practitioners with undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. The Center’s research and activities coalesce around four principal issue areas—Business and Human Rights, Environmental Justice, International Institutions, and Forced Migration and Human Rights—and are informed by the Kenan Institute’s “think and do tank” model of a reciprocal relationship between theory and practice.