{"id":18493,"date":"2025-12-02T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?page_id=18493"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:03:45","slug":"grip-report-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/grip-report-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIP Report 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero   cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>The Global RIghts Project: 2025<\/h1><p>The Global RIghts Project is a collaboration between the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, the CIRIGHTS Data Project, the Department of Political Science <\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1132\/GRIP-COver.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls-container\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-icon\" title=\"Accessibility controls\">Accessibility controls<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-motion-control cl-accessibility-control-hidden\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Pause motion\">Pause motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">On<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Play motion\">Play motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Off<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-contrast-control\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Increase text contrast\">Increase text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Standard<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Reset text contrast\">Reset text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">High<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-system-setting\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle\" title=\"Apply my preferences site-wide\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle-label\">Apply site-wide<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;The projects include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Security Forces, Rights, and Society Lab*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Survey Initiatives in Iran&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U.S. Human Rights Survey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identifying State-Led Atrocities&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Predicting Mass Atrocities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital Repression&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physical Integrity Rights Violations&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Special note on SFRS Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 2025, the Security Forces, Rights, &amp; 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/grip-2025-meet-the-team\/\" title=\"\">Meet the team<\/a>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Provide policymakers, NGOs, journalists, and others with objective information about human rights practices worldwide.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deepen our understanding of the factors that predict better or worse human rights practices while tracking trends over time.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Involve students in textual analysis and other techniques used to objectively measure human rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1132\/2025-GRIP-Report.pdf\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1132\/College-of-Arts-and-Sciences-GRIP-Annual-Report-Cover-2025-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>2025 GRIP Annual Report<\/h2><p>The third annual GRIP report was released on Dec. 12, 2025. The report is produced by researchers in the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies in association with the CIRIGHTS Data Project.<br><br><\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Read the report<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies<\/h2><p>The Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies is an academic gathering place where students, scholars, educators\u2013the change makers\u2013come together to promote mutual understanding, reconcile conflicts, and build peaceful, sustainable, and inclusive communities.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Learn more<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/cirights.com\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>The CIRIGHTS Data Project<\/h2><p>Human rights scores are necessary for understanding why governments violate human rights, why they violate some rights more than others, and how violations affect conflict and development. The goal of CIRIGHTS is to create numerical measures for every internationally recognized human right for all countries of the world.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Learn more<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>URI Department of Political Science<\/h2><p>Our faculty are winners of prestigious teaching awards and leading researchers in areas ranging from post-Cold War Russian relations and technology\u2019s impact on political campaigns to the role of emotions in decision making.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Learn more<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/12\/metro\/uri-human-rights-nonviolence-peace\/\">US at risk of committing &#8216;mass atrocities,&#8217; URI researchers say<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Boston Globe reports on the URI 2025 GRIP Report<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/uri-based-global-rights-project-report-spotlights-continued-troubling-trends-in-worldwide-inhumane-treatment\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1132\/GRIP-Report-2025-image-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1132\/GRIP-Report-2025-image-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1132\/GRIP-Report-2025-image-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/uri-based-global-rights-project-report-spotlights-continued-troubling-trends-in-worldwide-inhumane-treatment\/\">URI-based Global RIghts Project report spotlights continued troubling trends in worldwide inhumane treatment<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Third annual study notes digital oppression by countries, atrocities reaching record levels.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/grip-report-2024\/\">GRIP 2024 Report<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/global-rights-project-annual-report\/\">GRIP 2023 Report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout cl-tiles halves \"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"cl-panel-spacer\">Contact Us<\/h3>\n<div class=\"cl-tiles halves\">\n<p>Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies<br \/>\nMulticultural Student Service Center, Room 202<br \/>\n74 Lower College Road<br \/>\nKingston, RI 02881<\/p>\n<p>Ph: 401.874.2875<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:nonviolence@etal.uri.edu\">nonviolence@etal.uri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 GRIP report introduces a number of important findings from several different research projects conducted over the past year. 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