The interdisciplinary approach is evidenced by the assistant directors' range of backgrounds - Donald Hafner, a political science professor; Daniel Kanstroom, director of the Law School International Human Rights Program; and M. Brinton Lykes, a professor and associate dean in the Lynch School of Education.
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The center, which began as part of a strategic planning initiative in 1997, has a two-fold purpose, Hafner said. The directors want to have a center that is useful for practitioners and policy makers outside of BC. Within campus, they hope to provoke conversation among disciplines, and have more students and faculty thinking about human rights issues and becoming informed.
