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

Institutions

The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (HRI) at the University of Connecticut (USA) and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) serve as administrative and organizational centers of the transatlantic HRRC. Together with the HRRC Steering Committee and assisted by the HRRC Working Groups, they facilitate the conceptual development of the consortium and assist in practical matters, such as the administration of finances, logistical support for workshops and larger conferences, support for grant writing activities, and assistance in public relations work.

Most HRRC members are affiliated with institutions in Connecticut and Baden-Württemberg.