Visiting Scholar-Practitioner
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.
The program enlivens our own human rights research and educational community, and it creates the possibility for sustained partnerships with our visitors’ academic institutions and human rights organizations.
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.
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.
Gun Violence Forum
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.
Gun Violence Forum
Craig Hovey
Craig is the executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence. His scholarship intersects with political, philosophical theology and ethics.
2019 Romero Symposium
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.
UNFINISHED Collaboration
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.
Nonviolence Initiatives
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.
SPHR ConferenceA show speaking to the importance and beauty of a human voice raised, be it in song, celebration, or protest.
A show speaking to the importance and beauty of a human voice raised, be it in song, celebration, or protest.