Starting in the fall of 2024, O’Neill students can help support the global fight against human rights violations and war crimes.
“It’s definitely a human security and community resilience issue,” explains Assistant Professor Courtney Page Tan. “Conflicts, human rights violations, war crimes—they all tug and tear at our capacity as individuals and communities to thrive and reach their full potential.”
Page Tan’s partnership with the Department of Homeland Security’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center set the stage for creating both a course and an applied research opportunity that can count as an internship. What’s more, both options allow students to support the center’s work—all without leaving Indiana.
“It’s very, very rare for students to have the opportunity to interact with a federal agency remotely and in real time in this capacity,” Page Tan says. “This course offers students this incredible opportunity to get face time with center intelligence analysts and human rights lawyers, and to advance research that is making a huge difference in our national security.”