The institute's work is recognized as a major regional and national resource for developing curricula, seminars, and other materials designed to promote tolerance and understanding, break barriers, and inspire people to take action on behalf of human rights.
Billed as a "call to action", the institute aims to teach, to educate, and to act on behalf of human rights.
The new institute's gallery highlights issues, publications, and artwork related to human rights worldwide.
The 2010 conference, Combating Hatred, examined the issue and effect of hate speech and featured Morris Dees, founder of, and chief trial counsel for, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
focused on the changing nature and divisive issue of immigration in modern America and featured a diverse panel of immigration experts, including former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and New York Times columnist Lawrence Downes and was moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim McQueeny.