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Section
A-Mission
Statement
The Institute endeavors to underscore the convergence between the American national purpose and respect for individual rights. Its projects will develop local applications of universal principles, and will promote global awareness of human rights issues. The language of human rights has significant moral content, and is not mere rhetoric. The Institute traces American patriotism back to universal human rights norms. The United States is coming to the realization that “nation-building”, whether domestically or internationally, will be on its agenda for decades to come. The only reasonable standard for such activity is human-rights related. The basic right, freedom of speech, invites inquiry into the possible support of legal access rights, of political rights, of public service and public works rights, and of welfare rights.
In 2009 the name of the Institute was changed from “The Institute for Human Rights” to “The Human Rights
Institute” in order not to preclude discussion of the very legitimacy of respect for individual human rights as foundations for ethics.
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Section University
Strategic Goals
Center Goals
B-Goals 1. Foster
Learning and
Create
Knowledge
List of 2009 Activities and Accomplishments
The Institute Director accompanied three IPFW students to
Strasbourg, France, during four weeks in July, where the students successfully passed examinations and received the
Certificate in International Law offered by the International
Institute of Human Rights on the campus of the University of
Strasbourg. The minimum number of students was recruited to allow the program to continue in July 2010.
The Institute Director served as campus liaison for a year-long exchange program between IPFW and the Institute of Political
Studies (Science Po) at the University of Strasbourg. One exchange student arrived from Strasbourg for the 2009-2010 school year. One IPFW student was recruited to go to
Strasbourg in the 2010-2010 school year.
In Spring 2009 the Institute Director accompanied an IPFW student, Steven Cory, to Purdue University Calumet where he presented a paper on freedom of thought as a human right to that campus’s Undergraduate Research Conference.
The Human Rights Institute director has proposed an expansion of the Institute to embrace branches of applied ethics, including medical and business ethics. New hiring is taken place in these fields with a mandate from the IPFW
Administration to create undergraduate and possibly graduate certificates in applied ethics. Such expansion of the Institute would bring more faculty in the Philosophy Department into the Institute in collaborative role. (A proposal for an Institute graduate certificate in human rights studies is ready for campus approval, but currently the available teaching staff at IPFW for such a certificate is insufficient, and student demand for certificates in medical ethics and business ethics appears greater.)
In 2009 the director’s 2008 book Human Rights Ethics (Purdue
University Press) was reviewed very positively in the Review of Metaphysics , a major philosophy journal. The review is attached to this report.
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Section University
Strategic Goals
Center Goals
B-Goals
B-Goals
2. Develop
Quality of Place and Experience
3. Contribute to the
Development of the Northeast
Indiana Region
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Section
C-Research
Accomplishments
C-Research
C-Research
2. Number of Presentations given (counting those which are recognized in promotion and tenure reviews).
PRESENTATION: A paper on “Dialogical Human Rights” by the director of the Institute given in the Rhinehart Auditorium on October 16 at an event organized by the Archangel Institute. A debate between Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice and the Institute director on natural law ensued.
The Institute Director received an invitation to give a paper in at IU-Bloomington on World Government, World Governance in April 2010.
3. Listing of grants/contracts awarded in 2009
BOOK CONTRACT: A book entitled Childrens’ Rights: The Movement and the International Law was contracted in Spring 2009 with
Purdue University Press. The book manuscript is co-edited by the Institute Director and Institute Research Associate Jennifer Caseldine-
Bracht. The manuscript is currently being revised in response to an external review.
GRANTS: Grants totaling $15,000 were received to support an international conference on world poverty and human rights organized on the
IPFW campus by the Institute. IPFW Student Government contributed $9000.00 in support of travel by international speakers. The College of Arts and Sciences contributed $1500, and the School of Business and Management Sciences contributed $1500. The Philosophy
Department contributed $3000.
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Section
C-Research
Section
Accomplishments
4. Bibliography of notable student accomplishments WORK-STUDY STUDENT:The Institute Research Assistant, Mark Savio, served as copyeditor the book manuscript Childrens’ Rights: The Movement and the International Law in Spring 2009. In the Summer and through
September he was instrumental in obtaining funding from IPFW Student Government to permit speakers from developing nations to participate in an international IPFW conference on world poverty and human rights. Mark Savio works twenty-hours weekly in the Institute.
RESEARCH CONFERENCE:.The 2009 Institute conference was entitle World Trade, World Poverty. It was held on September 18-19. The concluding address was given by Thomas Pogge, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and International Relations at Yale University. He is an internationally recognized authority on human rights in relation to world poverty. The complete program of the conference is attached to this annual report.
JOURNAL ARTICLE: The Institute Director published an invited article in the French journal L’Observateur des Nations Unies , which is edited at the Universite d’Aix-en-Provence. The title is “La Moralite du respect des droits de l’homme comme base du droit des droits de l’homme.” It appeared in volume 25, no. 2.
Category Community Partner Activity Metrics/Impact
D. Community
D. Community
1. Ongoing
Partnerships
2. Short-term Projects
D. Community 3. Faculty Civic
Involvement
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D. Community
Category
4. Academic
Organizations
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Section
E. Diversity
E. Diversity
E. Diversity
E. Diversity
Strategic Theme
1. Student
Recruitment and
Retention
Unit Goals
2. Faculty & Staff
Recruitment and
Retention
3. Campus Climate
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E. Diversity
4. Curriculum
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5. Community
Outreach
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