Renegotiating (Eco-) Social Contracts for a Just and Sustainable Future

Join us for the Virtual Solutions Session of the Second World Summit for Social Development!

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Fall 2025 Artists in Residence

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Climate Week NYC  took place Sept 21-28

Learn more about New York Climate Exchange here.

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Sign up for our Climate Week storytelling workshop with The Moth + NYU!

Join The Moth and NYU for an interactive session on the art of storytelling, confidence-building, and community connection.
NYU Tandon, Brooklyn | Wed, Sept 24, 2025 | 2–5 p.m. ET
[Sign up now – spots are limited!]

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CCSP Executive Director Manisha Desai Receives 2025 ASA Jessie Bernard Award for Advancing Decolonial Feminist Scholarship

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Just Launched! Website of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract

Explore the new website of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract

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The GD campaign is finished but you can still support CCSP by selecting the designation "Center for Changing Systems of Power Excellence Fund"

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CCSP 2025 Summer Social Justice Grant 

Learn about our grant recipients' projects

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"Writing Beyond the Prison" featured in  The Statesman

 

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Read Stony Brook Press article featuring CCSP director, Manisha Desai

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On Indigenous Peoples' Day: Indigenous Activists Urge UN Leaders to Support Treaty

 Indigenous coalition members, activists and allies sent a letter to UN leaders urging them to support a treaty in the form of a new Optional Protocol to CEDAW to end violence against women and girls. 

Learn about this effort to secure a binding global framework to end the most widespread human rights violation on earth. 

 

CCSP Upcoming Events

November 7, 2025 On Call: June Jordan, Palestine, and the Black Radical Tradition at Stony Brook
November 13, 2025 Lecture by Benjamin P. Davis | "Pens Not Property: Edward Said and Sylvia Wynter on Forms of Life"