Program on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
The Program (formerly the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution) was established at The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2000 to promote active collaboration and exchange among academics and practitioners working in the fields of human rights and conflict resolution. PHRCR advances and supports an interdisciplinary approach to peace-building.
Though human rights and conflict resolution embody different approaches, organizations in these fields have each engaged intensively in international peace-building efforts. These efforts broadly encompass the wide range of activities undertaken to end violence and promote sustainable peace and justice, ranging from fact-finding and report-writing to advocacy, mediation, training, and capacity-building.
PHRCR conducts original research and produces articles and publications; carries out projects in support of its research objectives; and provides resources on the linkages between human rights and conflict resolution theory and practice.
Faculty + Staff
Academic Co-Directors
Eileen Babbitt is Professor of Practice and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at Fletcher.She
is also an Associate of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Previously, she was Director of Education and Training at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She teaches
negotiation; mediation; and conflict resolution theory.
Email: Eileen.Babbitt@tufts.edu
Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law and has taught courses on international human rights law, peacekeeping, international organizations, self-determination, and nationalism. He is the editor of Guide to International Human Rights Practice (4th ed. forthcoming 2004) and author of Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (rev. ed. 1996), and International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Process (3d ed. 1995, with Richard B. Lillich). He has served as a board member of Amnesty International-USA, the International Human Rights Law Group, and the International Service for Human Rights and has consulted with the United Nations and OSCE on minority rights and the situations in Afghanistan, East Timor, Western Sahara, and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
E-mail: hurst.hannum@tufts.edu