The 2025 GRIP report introduces a number of important findings from several different research projects conducted over the past year. The 2025 addition of the Global Rights Project Report focuses on research that faculty and students have conducted on a variety of human rights, civil-military relations, and security issues. It will discuss the research, survey, and data collection projects that members of the Center for Non-Violence and Peace Studies have conducted over the past year. The projects include:
- Security Forces, Rights, and Society Lab*
- Survey Initiatives in Iran
- U.S. Human Rights Survey
- Identifying State-Led Atrocities
- Predicting Mass Atrocities
- Digital Repression
- Physical Integrity Rights Violations
*Special note on SFRS Lab
In the summer of 2025, the Security Forces, Rights, & Society (SFRS) Lab was established by Dr. Roya Izadi within the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies (CNVP). The SFRS conducts research on security forces and their broader role within society, as well as empirical rights and accountability. The Lab is designed to operate as a student-centered research lab that provides hands-on training and opportunities for URI students to engage in original data collection, data analysis, and survey design and implementation. The SFRS Lab’s inaugural project is the Societal Militarization Project, which examines how military institutions expand their influence into civilian domains by taking on domestic roles that fall outside of standard military affairs.
Meet the teamOur Goals
- Provide policymakers, NGOs, journalists, and others with objective information about human rights practices worldwide.
- Deepen our understanding of the factors that predict better or worse human rights practices while tracking trends over time.
- Identify and understand threats to human rights, such as the rise of military involvement in the civilian sphere, low demand for human rights, and cases where there is a high risk of atrocities.
- Involve students in textual analysis and other techniques used to objectively measure human rights.
News
- US at risk of committing ‘mass atrocities,’ URI researchers say - The Boston Globe reports on the URI 2025 GRIP Report
URI-based Global RIghts Project report spotlights continued troubling trends in worldwide inhumane treatment - Third annual study notes digital oppression by countries, atrocities reaching record levels.
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