{"id":442580,"date":"2010-03-18T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=40671"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:00:20","slug":"around-the-schools-harvard-divinity-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442580","title":{"rendered":"Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a week in late January, five <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hds.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Divinity School<\/a> students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after a 2009 coup in which Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by the country\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Bray, Tiffany Curtis, Garrett Fitzgerald, Julie Rogers, and Marianne Tierney traveled to Honduras with human rights experts and met local leaders to examine and discuss the fragile situation surrounding the ongoing Honduran constitutional crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Maher, former HDS lecturer and current research fellow of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrights.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies<\/a>, organized the trip and led a discussion of the group\u2019s findings at an informal presentation in February, held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drclas.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard\u2019s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies<\/a> (DRCLAS).<\/p>\n<p>Tierney said, \u201cEach one of us who went was significantly impacted by this trip. When we came back to school and people asked, \u2018How was your trip?\u2019 it was really difficult to put into words. I started saying things like, \u2018It was incredible, rejuvenating, inspiring, heartbreaking, intellectually stimulating, exhausting, depressing, amazing.\u2019 Ultimately, it was an extremely powerful experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have an item for Around the Schools, please e-mail your write-up (150-200 words) to georgia_bellas@harvard.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a week in late January, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after a 2009 coup in which Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by the country\u2019s military. Karen Bray, Tiffany Curtis, Garrett Fitzgerald, Julie Rogers, and Marianne Tierney traveled to Honduras with human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}