Shaping the Future and Securing Rights in a World in Transformation

The Changing Orders project aims to reveal the fundamental dynamics underlying today’s governance and human rights challenges at the national and global levels, and to generate new and innovative ideas and policy responses to them. 

Working with the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, the Centre for International Policy Studies and the Refugee Hub, the initiative will mobilize cutting-edge research and networks of decision-makers to analyze these challenges and co-produce solutions to address them. 

Specifically, it seeks to determine: 

  1. How to secure inclusive and durable democracies and multilateral cooperation in the face of political and technological change 

  1. How to secure fundamental human rights in the face of challenges to the rules-based international order 

With a focus on green recovery, as well as securing the rights of refugees, this initiative investigates opportunities to reform and reshape multilateral cooperation and to build more inclusive and equitable institutions.  

Research team members