Human Rights, Front and Center

One year after Mary Robinson, LL.M. '68, LL.D. '98, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave her Commencement address, the Kennedy School of Government has created the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Funded by the largest gift ever received from an alumnus in the school's history--$18 million, from Gregory C. Carr, M.P.P. '86--the center will conduct research, teaching, and training on the policies and actions of governments, international organizations, and individuals that affect the realization of human rights. The center's mandate also includes philosophical research on the concept of human rights.

In announcing the creation of the center at the Kennedy School's commencement exercises on June 10, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. praised Carr's "level of passion, knowledge, and commitment" to human-rights issues. Carr is a cofounder of Boston Technology Inc. and former chairman of Prodigy Inc. His gift provides endowment for the center, support for a professorship, and funding for facilities--including a room to be named in honor of Graham Allison, now director of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, who was dean when Carr was a student and has advised him in the years since.

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