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.

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.

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

Watson's Policy Mentors Initiative is a new program offering networking, career advice, and mentoring opportunities for MPA students and Watson undergraduates.

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.