The Carter Center

The Carter Center is a human rights organization, founded in 1982 and chaired by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. It is based out of Atlanta, Georgia and is an offshoot of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. The Carter Center works in partnership with Emory University.

According to the Carter Center's website, the organization has five guiding principles:

1. The Center emphasizes action and results. Based on careful research and analysis, it is prepared to take timely action on important and pressing issues.
2. The Center does not duplicate the effective efforts of others.
3. The Center addresses difficult problems and recognizes the possibilities of failure as an acceptable risk.
4. The Center is nonpartisan and acts as a neutral in dispute resolution activities.
5. The Center believes that people can improve their lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources.

The Carter center frequently participates in supervision of foreign elections, helps provide international and domestic crisis mediations, and offers financial and infrastructure-building assistance to developing nations.

Carter center election supervision

• August 15, 2004 : Venezuela, Recall referendum

Former President Carter's work in the Carter Center won him the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development".