At the Global Policy Center, we’re guided by the values of UVA and the Batten School. The Center’s core values of Partnership, Risk-taking, Intellectual Humility, and Equity also inform our work.
“GPC is unique not only in the quality of its multi-disciplinary scholarship and expertise, which is of the highest international standard, but also its outstanding ability to engage humanitarian practitioners in meaningful collaborative research of tremendous social impact. ”
– Josiah Kaplan, Save the Children International
– Josiah Kaplan, Save the Children International
Learn More About Our Values
Partnership
We believe that collaborating with teams of scholars, practitioners and communities creates more ethical work, better solutions and more robust outcomes. We seek to establish teams that bridge the gaps between the people directly affected by humanitarian and development crises, and those influencing their prevention, response, and long-term solutions. We value reciprocal attitudes, approaches, and programming and reject exploitative or extractive research and practices.
The monument at the national headquarters of our partner, the American Red Cross, in Washington D.C.
Risk-taking
We view the Center as a laboratory to test ideas and a space where the humanitarian and development world can learn and engage free of the fear of failure.
Professor David Leblang speaks at the Mother of Exiles Panel at the Batten Shcool in 2018.
Intellectual humility
We subscribe to a spirit of collaborative learning, of constantly seeking new knowledge, input, and criticism. We believe that the open exchange of ideas, evidence, and knowledge, with humility, is critical to our work and process.
Operations Manager Brooke Ray listens to speakers in an auditorium at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Equity
We commit to continually evaluating and adapting our practices and perspectives to respond to the structural inequities we encounter in our work.
Batten alumna Althea Pickering visits a water tank from a solar-powered borehole in Mt. Darwin district in Zimbabwe with the local community members and leadership, Government Agritex officer, and WFP and partner staff.