For Scholars/Practitioners
Current Visitors
The Center hosts visiting human rights researchers and advocates from around the world. These visitors bring us new and challenging perspectives on human rights and advocacy. The program gives them the time and resources to reflect on their work, write, teach and speak. The Center's Endowment to Support Education in Nonviolence enables visiting scholars and practitioners to engage the University community in the theory and practice of nonviolence.
Wendo Aszed
Wendo Aszed leads Dandelion Africa, a grassroots innovator in Kenya that focuses on women and girls' sexual and reproductive health, economic empowerment, and advocacy on gender-based violence. Wendo is an African Visionary Fellow, a writer, and an Aspen New Voices Fellow 2019.
Wendo Aszed
Wendo Aszed leads Dandelion Africa, a grassroots innovator in Kenya that focuses on women and girls' sexual and reproductive health, economic empowerment, and advocacy on gender-based violence. Wendo is an African Visionary Fellow, a writer, and an Aspen New Voices Fellow 2019.
Leora Kahn
Leora is the founder and executive director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice and has been associated with the Center since 2013, when she was invited to speak at the first Social Practice of Human Rights Conference. Since then, Leora has been coordinator and producer with the Moral Courage Project.
Leora Kahn
Leora is the founder and executive director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice and has been associated with the Center since 2013, when she was invited to speak at the first Social Practice of Human Rights Conference. Since then, Leora has been coordinator and producer with the Moral Courage Project.
Alwiyah Shariff
Alwiyah is the Training & Fellowship Manager at Ohio Voice where she manages the Vision for Ohio Fellowship Program which aims to train Ohio leaders and makers to be more clear, connected, and committed to tackle big systemic issues that affect everyday communities.
Alwiyah Shariff
Alwiyah is the Training & Fellowship Manager at Ohio Voice where she manages the Vision for Ohio Fellowship Program which aims to train Ohio leaders and makers to be more clear, connected, and committed to tackle big systemic issues that affect everyday communities.
Christina Garcia
Christina is the director of Crime Victims Program at Las Americas providing legal representation to immigrant victims of domestic abuse, human trafficking and other crimes.
Christina Garcia
Christina is the director of Crime Victims Program at Las Americas providing legal representation to immigrant victims of domestic abuse, human trafficking and other crimes.
Barbara A. Frey
Barbara is the director of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program and a former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons.
Barbara A. Frey
Barbara is the director of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program and a former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons.
Craig Hovey
Craig is the executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence. His scholarship intersects with political, philosophical theology and ethics.
Craig Hovey
Craig is the executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence. His scholarship intersects with political, philosophical theology and ethics.
Steve Connell
Steve’s performances have been seen on stage, film and TV. During his residence, he devised UNFINISHED, a show speaking to the importance and beauty of a human voice raised.
Steve Connell
Steve’s performances have been seen on stage, film and TV. During his residence, he devised UNFINISHED, a show speaking to the importance and beauty of a human voice raised.
Srdja Popovic
Srdja Popovic is the co-founder of CANVAS an organization that advocates for the use of nonviolent resistance to promote human rights and democracy.
Srdja Popovic
Srdja Popovic is the co-founder of CANVAS an organization that advocates for the use of nonviolent resistance to promote human rights and democracy.
Fateh Azzam
Fateh Azzam is the founder of the Asfari Institute at the American University of Beirut and former MENA representative at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Fateh Azzam
Fateh Azzam is the founder of the Asfari Institute at the American University of Beirut and former MENA representative at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
John Meagher Fellowship
The John Meagher Fellowship supports a postdoctoral scholar to advance justice and promote advocacy related to the U.S.-Vietnam War through a combination of field research, academic talks, community dialogues, and a scholar-advocate symposium resulting in a publication.
2020: VIETNAM LEGACIES PROJECT
The Vietnam Legacies Project will support scholarship, activism, and community engagement on the theme "Transitional Justice, Advocacy, and the U.S.-Vietnam War”. Learn more about the project and upcoming events below.
More than half a century later John "Jack" Meagher '63 still carries the emotional scars from his tour of duty in Vietnam. In my conversations with the retired Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judge, I have felt his genuine respect for the sacrifices of veterans as he devotes his life to reconciliation, healing, and peacemaking.
Vietnam veteran Jack Meagher ’63 brings his mission of restoration and reconciliation to UD.
Action Research and Rights Collective
The Action Research and Rights Collective began convening in Spring 2022 to lay a foundation for collaboration around methods of inquiry that center dignity, justice, and solidarity in our work. The Collective is part of our efforts to support “action research” methods that advance human rights and build community by generating knowledge in a way that values all forms of expertise, prioritizing people’s lived experience as an essential source. In clear terms, “action research” is guided by a simple set of values: Learn to act, act to learn, and center the participation of those who know.
The goal of the Collective includes three core imperatives to:
- Build a durable community of practice around action research in the human rights space;
- Provide support for experimentation and implementation; and
- Design a feedback process by which we document and share our learning together and from each other in order to improve methods and results.
We are a diverse network of individuals with different levels of exposure and background in action research methods but one thing we all share is a desire to grow and improve our practice and do work that matters.
The Collective consists of researchers from departments across the UD campus, the country, and the world. As this new initiative takes flight, we plan to regularly share our learning and projects as they evolve!