Mission Statement
Founded
in 1992, the Center for Justice Studies is committed to facilitating
research and stimulating education in justice studies. Issues of justice
in today's societies arise in a wide number of disciplines, including
virtually all of the social sciences and many biomedical sciences, physical
sciences, engineering, and humanities. The Center for Justice Studies
at the University of Nevada, Reno is an effort to draw together these
disparate interests specifically to encourage research on broad issues
of social justice. In July 1995 the Center became the Grant Sawyer Center
for Justice Studies named for past Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer. The
Center is proud to bear Governor Sawyer's name and is committed to upholding
his strong commitment to civil rights and social justice.
The Center
has three primary missions:
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To stimulate and integrate theoretical and applied research on issues
of
social and interpersonal justice;
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To
offer and to promote educational programs in justice studies; and
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To
foster programs that are of service to the community, the state,
and
the nation on matters of justice.
The Center facilitates research by creating an interdisciplinary community
of scholars for research on formal and informal aspects of social justice;
by assisting in the development of proposals for external funding for
research on justice; and by providing an opportunity for students in
various programs to conduct data-based research on their theses and
dissertations on justice issues. The Center is also committed to pursuing
justice research in global arenas, and in June 1995 hosted the Vth International
Conference on Social Justice Research, which was held for the first
time in the United States.
University of Nevada, Reno