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Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
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Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
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Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
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Global Initiatives

Announcing our First Affiliate Center!

Affiliate Centers are community stakeholders who share the institute’s mission and partner with the institute on initiatives, reflecting the diversity of approaches to research on global racial justice at Rutgers.

Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR) at Rutgers Global

CGHR's mission is to understand and prevent genocide and mass atrocity crimes.

In doing so, CGHR takes a critical prevention approach. On the one hand, we grapple with critical human rights issues, including the most pressing twenty-first century challenges that may give rise to genocide, atrocity crimes, and related interventions. On the other hand, we use a critical lens to rethink assumptions and offer alternative ideas and solutions.

Led by Alexander Hinton, CGHR Director, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention and Nela Navarro, CGHR Associate Director and Director of Education, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of English-Writing Program, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences-Newark.

Learn more about CGHR
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The Dakar Translation Symposium

Against the grain of global Africa-analysis, The second edition of the Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and Her Globalization which will be held in June 2024, fosters a global dialogue that is theoretical, cultural and imaginative, and brings together speakers and participants of national and international research capacities from various disciplines who are invested in Africa and the Black diasporas.

This second symposium will explore some of the most urgent issues in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities including literature, history, sociology, gender, anthropology, economy, and law among others.

The Symposium is a joint effort between the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University, Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor, The Office of Inclusion and Equity at NYU Abu Dhabi, the NYU Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation (New York), Rutgers Global, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis of Senegal and the African and Postcolonial Studies Laboratory at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, where the symposium will be held.

Learn More about the Inaugural Dakar Translation Symposium: Africa and its Diasporas held in 2022
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Abu Dhabi DTS Planning Summit

The Dakar Translation Symposium (DTS) Planning Summit was held in Abu Dhabi, UAE from January 16-18, 2023. Supported by funding from the Office of Inclusion and Equity, and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi, and led by the organizers of the DTS at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the summit brought together leadership from three universities in Senegal and one in Mali. 

Convened to bring into focus a coherent mission, and brainstorm a long-term vision for both the Symposium and the proposed Center for the Study of Translation to be located in Ziguinchor, Senegal, the summit also provided a platform for discussion about the future of DEI in a global context.

ISGRJ Directors engaged in rigorous discussions with faculty and administrators from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis of Senegal, and NYUAD including Dr. Lisa Coleman, Senior Vice President of Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation and Fatiah Touray, Executive Director of Inclusion and Equity. Special thanks to NYUAD Vice Chancellor Marïet Westermann for sharing her time and insights with the Summit assembly.

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EthicsLab-CPLB Seminar Series | Sub-Saharan Africa, population health, and ethics 

The Center for Population-Level Bioethics (CPLB) at Rutgers and EthicsLab at the Catholic University of Central Africa have started a year-long seminar series focused on the intersections of population ethics and health in African spaces. Led by Nir Eyal (Professor of Bioethics, Rutgers Global Health Institute and Director, Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research) and Thierry Ngosso (Political Philosopher, Center for Population-Level Bioethics)

Social Justice

Escuela de Formación Política “Sonia Pierre”: Pensamiento Caribeño, Lucha antirracista y Decolonialidad: a Program of Exchanges between Rutgers/LCS and the GLEFAS

The Sonia Pierre Political School is a summer educational project training young leaders in racial and social justice in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as part of a broader set of exchanges between the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the GLEFAS (Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formación, y Acción Feminista) in the 22-23 school year. Led by Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Associate Professor, Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Sociology.

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Disrupting the Status Quo: Reimagining Global Health Systems Through A Decolonizing Lens

This qualitative research study is a joint project between the Rutgers Global Health Institute and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice which explores whether current decolonization efforts fall short of addressing the harm that colonization has caused and how we stop institutions from around the globe from perpetuating these inequities. Led by Arpita Jindani and Richard Marlink (Rutgers Global Health Institute).