Taking a Stand Against Racial Injustice and Police Brutality

CDDRL joins other university centers at Stanford in condemning the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and David McAtee, and expressing its outrage at police violence towards demonstrators around the country.

The CISAC community expresses anguish and outrage at the brutal killing of George Floyd—and countless other black Americans who have lost due to police brutality and racism.

To encourage Stanford students from underrepresented minorities to engage in study and research of topics related to contemporary Asia, the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is offering a new Diversity Grant opportunity. Applications review begins on September 1, 2020.

The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) unequivocally condemns the systemic racism that permeates U.S. society and fully supports the recent calls for social justice and equity.

The Masters in International Policy (MIP) joins other university centers at Stanford in condemning the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, and countless other African-Americans. We express our outrage at police violence and express our solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

For the last 10 years, a team of social scientists at the Poverty, Violence, and Governance (PovGov) lab at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) have been developing action-oriented research to support human rights and inform policy on the root causes and devastating consequences of violence.

In a recent paper, Didi Kuo argues that American democracy is in trouble. She points to a rise in party polarization, the increasingly bipartisan abandonment of the norms of the democratic process, the rise of populism, and the proliferation of gerrymandered districts and voting restrictions to illustrate the breakdown.

Too many Americans have found it convenient to ignore injustice, inequality, and racism in our own country while hypocritically chastising others for trampling on values we profess to hold dear, writes Thomas Fingar. "Looking the other way must end."

The Stanford Internet Observatory reports that it has seen no evidence to suggest that the current protests in the U.S. have been driven by misinformation or foreign actors instead of legitimate grievance.

Living through the pandemic has given one scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies a point of departure for understanding mental health in a new way.