The establishment of the Africa Initiative signals a long-term commitment by the Watson Institute to promote research, teaching, public engagement and sustainable partnerships in and about Africa.

The Brazil Initiative facilitates and coordinates lectures, seminars, conferences, research partnerships and grants, as well as a host of other resources on campus related to Brazil.

The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies conducts and facilitates interdisciplinary research on pressing global human rights and humanitarian challenges.

Through its programming and undergraduate and graduate-level course offerings, CLACS fosters knowledge, teaching and research on the history, peoples, environment, languages and contemporary problems of Latin America.

The Center for Middle East Studies promotes research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of the Middle East in a historically and culturally grounded manner.

The China Initiative is an interdisciplinary hub for the study of modern China at Brown University.

The Costs of War project is a team of over 50 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners and physicians. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars.

Spearheaded by family, friends and classmates of John F. Kennedy Jr. ’83, the initiative aims to bring film and filmmakers to the University with the goal of shedding light on issues facing society through documentary.

For one year, fellows participate in security-related research, seminars, classes, and public events alongside Watson’s faculty, students and policy practitioners.

Central to our mission is the Watson Postdoctoral Fellows Program, which supports young social scientists conducting research related to the Institute’s three core thematic areas: development, governance, and security.

The Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia promotes research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of modern South Asia in an interdisciplinary framework and in a historically and culturally grounded manner.

The Watson Institute Senior Fellows program is designed to bring leading policymakers and public intellectuals from around the world to Brown University to offer fresh thinking on contemporary global issues.

This initiative brings together the Brown Community –as students, teachers, and scholars for an urgent conversation about inequality. Our emphasis is on how great wealth distorts –perhaps even threatens- the republic.

The Taubman Center brings together scholars, practitioners and students with different perspectives to address important problems facing American politics and policy.

The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance seeks to understand how local politics, global economics and international finance combine to produce the uncertain world that we all inhabit.