Brudnick Center for the Study of Violence & Conflict
Seeking solutions to problems of hostility and hatred based on group differences.

Center for Labor Market Studies
The Center for Labor Market Studies is an applied research, evaluation, and policy-oriented technical assistance unit located within the Department of Economics. 

Community-Based Research Initiative
Focuses on the Boston area and Massachusetts, in the context of issues of community concern. Students carry out research under faculty supervision, defined in partnership with local civic, public affairs, and social service groups.

Humanities Center
The Humanities Center was founded in 2008 to foster conversation and collaboration among politicians and writers, philosophers and scientists, historians and health-care providers, journalists and entrepreneurs, artists and lawyers, researchers and practitioners, and others.

Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research
Utilizes strategic research methodologies to assist government agencies, educational institutions and members of the private sector with the development and implementation of contemporary criminal justice policies.

Institute on Race and Justice
Brings together experts from the College of Social Sciences and Humanities to examine questions on race and justice facing urban communities.

Institute on Security and Public Policy
A strategic alliance to better understand the dynamics underlying security, risk management and public safety, as well as education on initiatives that engage private and public sector leaders in a meaningful discourse.

Kitty & Michael Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy
Faculty, staff, and students pool their expertise, resources, and commitment to address a wide range of issues facing cities, towns, and suburbs with emphasis on the Greater Boston region.

World Class Cities Partnership
Brings together civic, business and academic leaders from cities spanning the globe for the purpose of creating sustainable social change through policy research, and development and implementation of best practice solutions to common challenges.