Davis Projects for Peace $10,000 Fellowship

 
Deadline to apply for summer funding: Monday, January 23, noonDavis Projects for Peace offers a $10,000 fellowship for an MIT undergraduate student project that promotes peace. The aim is to “encourage and support today’s motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.” Projects must be implemented during the summer of 2023.
 
Successful past projects have focused on:
  • fostering empathy
  • promoting cross-cultural understanding
  • revitalization of post-conflict and post-disaster communities
  • justice and fair processes
Applications from student groups and individuals are welcome. The recipient must be an MIT undergraduate in the spring of 2023, but a team may include graduate students or others.
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How is the world made just?

The mission of this class is to inspire and prepare students to undertake the work of making the world just. We will start by exploring the nature of a just world – what ideals must you commit yourself to, and why? How are those ideals reconciled with the constraints the world ‘as it is’ imposes? Next, we will examine a variety of injustices so we can ably deconstruct their structures, dynamics and myth-making. This will yield initial insights into how to dismantle injustice. We will then analyze what role technology, markets and entrepreneurship have to play. If problems of justice are problems of right and wrong, then are instrumental approaches tangential to our quest? We will examine social entrepreneurship in particular to ensure that its means and ends are just. Finally, we will study accompaniment – journeying with the wronged until right is done, and explore its moral and tactical power and success in countering a variety of injustices.

Project

Students will select an issue they want to work on, e.g., poverty, climate change, polarization, etc. They will research and analyze previous approaches, and then propose interventions of their own.

Course Information

Instructor(s): Manish Bhardwaj
Semester Offered: Spring 2023
Lecture Location: N51-310
Lecture Times: W10-1
Units (credit hours): 3-0-9
Class Size: 20
Grading: A-F
Course #EC.703 (U) / EC.783 (G)

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In related fields through various departments.

MIT LEAD and other leadership programs through Division of Student Life
Think. Apply. Impact: Ethics as Optimization
STS.085 Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier
24.231 Ethics
15.269 Literature, Ethics, and Authority
15.270 Ethical Practice: Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and the Purpose of the Corporation
17.391J Human Rights in Theory and Practice
21L.450 The Ethics of Leadership
HST.590 Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
STS.006J Bioethics

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