Featured series 
Tag: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
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Nation & World
Learning how to talk about divisive issues
Harvard students share their experiences as fellows in the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
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Nation & World
Fighting for human rights in riven land overseen by repressive regime
Ugandan Scholar at Risk and human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo describes how his early life shaped his future.
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Nation & World
Standoff over gun laws
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics discussion underscores difficulties of reconciling views on guns and public safety in U.S.
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Campus & Community
Looking to the stars with different visions
Harvard student London Vallery seeks to improve Indigenous representation in aerospace sector.
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Nation & World
Redrawing the civics education roadmap
In a report released March 1, “A Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy,” researchers at Harvard, Tufts, and other institutions laid out a strategy and other recommendations for a large-scale recommitment to the field of civics, which has seen investment decline during the last 50 years.
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Nation & World
The path to zero
Harvard Global Health Institute, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and more join to launch new COVID Risk Level map for policy makers and the public.
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Campus & Community
A passion for stories
Harvard senior Lauren Spohn heads to the University of Oxford after graduation to keep exploring the ways in which stories can connect us all.
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Science & Tech
Is technology evil?
A HubWeek panel exploring ethics in the digital world featured computer scientist and entrepreneur Rana el Kaliouby and Harvard Professor Danielle Allen.
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Campus & Community
30 years of the Safra Center
At Harvard’s Safra Center, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, a student intern learns about ethics, and the evolving issues that surround them.
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Science & Tech
Giving ‘good’ a rigorous inspection
Harvard scholars Joshua Greene and Steven Pinker were joined by Princeton philosopher Peter Singer in a conversation examining how to be moral — and happy.
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Campus & Community
From one dreamer to another
Monica Tesoriero and Kalan Chang are products of the Harvard Bridge Program, which connects workers with citizenship and career-development services.
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Nation & World
Politics in a ‘post-truth’ age
Harvard analysts discuss the unusual dynamics and events of the 2016 presidential election, and what they mean for our political system going forward.
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Nation & World
Playing without rules
Eugen Dimant, who studies corruption in sports, discusses the implications of charges on Monday by the World Anti-Doping Agency that Russia has a massive, state-run doping operation in its athletic programs.
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Nation & World
The women who questioned Wall Street
A trio of Wall Street’s toughest critics talks about gender and taking on what’s been called America’s ultimate boys’ club.
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Nation & World
Drilling down on corruption
As he concludes a five-year lab study on institutional corruption, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, departing as head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, reflects on the lessons learned, and the challenges that remain.
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Science & Tech
Seeking public openness
Four teams that took part in a hackathon at the MIT Media Lab last weekend will go on to present their practical solutions for reducing institutional corruption to a conference at Harvard Law School in May.
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Campus & Community
Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts
Political theorist Danielle S. Allen has been appointed both to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a professor in the Government Department and to Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics as its director.
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Arts & Culture
Family ties with a Disney twist
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Harvard fellow Ron Suskind talks about connecting with his autistic son through Disney films.
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Nation & World
Fiscal fallout at the Vatican
Gregg Fields, a business journalist and research fellow who studies institutional corruption at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, talked about the sweeping new financial reforms initiated by Pope Francis.
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Nation & World
Lessig remembers Swartz
In remarks at Harvard Law School, Professor Lawrence Lessig eulogized Internet pioneer Aaron Swartz and proposed a closer examination of minor versus major cyberspace crimes and what he called “extremism in prosecuting computer laws.”
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Nation & World
Wanted: Ways to battle corruption
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics is offering $8,000 in prizes for novel ideas on how to monitor and undercut institutional corruption.
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Campus & Community
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics announces fellows
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has announced its Edmond J. Safra Lab and Network Fellows and Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows in Ethics.
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Campus & Community
$12.3 million gift to Center for Ethics
Harvard receives gift of $12.3 million from Lily Safra in memory of her late husband.
