Organizations
Academic - Columbia University
The Center for the Study of Democracy, Tolerance, and Religion
Columbia University
The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion conducts research and training on the interfaces of and tensions between religion, toleration, and democracy in the world. It opened in July 2006, with initial funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Center addresses the intersections of religion with democracy, international affairs, conflict, human rights, public policy and diplomacy. The center supports graduate courses, post-doctoral training and student-faculty research initiatives, provides scholarships for students from democratizing Muslim-majority countries, and develops new research networks on religion and politics. / Website
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
Columbia University
The Heyman Center brings together the interests not only of the various departments in the Humanities but also the broad conceptual, methodological and value-laden issues that are of interest to the natural sciences and the professional schools of Law, Medicine, Journalism, Arts, and International Affairs. The Heyman Center presents several events on various themes in the Humanities throughout the Fall and Spring semesters each year, which are open not only to all at Columbia but to everyone in New York City and beyond. / Website
Academic - Other
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation
University of Manchester
Led by two pioneering thinkers, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Professor John Sulston and renowned bioethicist Professor John Harris, the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation was launched at The University of Manchester in July 2008. The mission of iSEI is to observe and analyze the role and moral responsibilities of science and innovation. The institute examines the ways in which science is used in the 21st century, evaluate possible or desirable changes, and consider the forms of regulation and control of the process that are appropriate or required. iSEI brings together researchers in ethics, law, philosophy, science and medicine to examine how the social and ethical consequences of science and technology can be managed in a way that protects people and makes their lives better. / Website
The Global Economic Governance Program, University College
University of Oxford
The Global Economic Governance Programme was established at University College in 2003 to foster research and debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries.It serves as an interdisciplinary umbrella within Oxford drawing together members of the Departments of Economics, Law and Development Studies working on these issues and linking them to an international research network.GEG seeks to to conduct and foster research into international organizations and markets as well as new public-private governance regimes; to create and maintain a network of scholars and policy-makers working on these issues and to influence debate and policy in both the public and the private sector in developed and developing countries. / Website
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