Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

The Carr Center sponsored talks throughout the 2001-2002 academic year on the implications of the

September 11 attacks on the U.S.

How NOT to Fight Terrorism: Lessons from Israel (October 23, 2002)A presentation by Eitan Felner, Fellow, Carr Center and Former Director of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information

Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and Chairperson of Amnesty International - Israel

Section.

The Rise of the Taliban and Prospects for Nation-building. (November 13, 2001)

A panel discussion with Paul Fishstein, Former Director of Save the Children (Afghanistan office) in

Pakistan; Thomas B. Harrington, Jr., Former Consultant Development Alternatives, Inc., the United Nations

Development Program, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan and

Afghanistan; Jolyon Leslie, UN Regional Coordination Officer, Kabul; and Carol V. Rose, Former Fellow

with the Institute for Current World Affairs in Peshwar, Pakistan.

Refugee Crisis in Afghanistan. (November 16, 2001)

A presentation by Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Root Causes of Terrorism (May 3, 2002)

A panel with Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and

Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Kennedy School of Government; Michael Ignatieff, Director of the

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Professor of the Practice of Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School

of Government; Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment,

Kennedy School of Government; Jessica Stern, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government;

and moderated by Joseph Nye, Jr., Dean, Kennedy School of Government.

Civil Liberties: Human Rights and Free Speech – What’s at Risk? (May 3, 2002)

A panel with Phillip Heymann, James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Samantha Power,

Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government; Frederick Schauer, Academic Dean and Frank

Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Kennedy School of Government; and moderated by Alex Jones,

Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Lecturer in Public

Policy, Kennedy School of Government.

2001-2002 marked the fourth consecutive year of the Carr Center’s popular film series. Each film is screened

with a relevant speaker (often the film’s director or an expert on the film topic) to introduce and lead a

discussion after the film. The series is cosponsored with Harvard’s Center for International Development and

coordinated by Doreen Beinart.

“Before Night Falls” (September 25, 2001)

A film about the life of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas with a discussion led by Wendy Gimbel,

journalist and author of Havana Dreams.

“Behind the Veil” (October 9, 2001)

A documentary film on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan with a discussion led by Dr. Lynn Amowitz,

author of the Physicians for Human Rights report Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan.

“Gerrie and Louise” (October 16, 2001)

A documentary featuring a former colonel in the South African Defense Force discussing crimes committed

during apartheid. Post-film student-led discussion.

“Promises” (November 8, 2001)

A documentary examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of children. Post-film discussion

led by B.Z. Goldberg, co-producer and co-director.

“Trial in Prague” (November 27, 2001)

A documentary on the infamous trial of 14 leading Czech Communists at the height of the Cold War with a

discussion led by Zuzana Justman, film director.

“One Day in September” (December 4, 2001)

A documentary chronicling the killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games with a post-film

discussion led by Juliette Kayyem of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International

Affairs.

“A Time for Drunken Horses” (January 29, 2002)

A film about the struggle of the Kurds living in the semi-permanent war zone at the intersection of Turkey,

Syria, Iran and Iraq.

“Bhopal Express” (March 19, 2002)

A film chronicling the 1984 lethal gas explosion in Indian and examines the role of multinational

corporations.

“Justice for the Generals” (April 18, 2002)

A documentary about the 1980 deaths of four American missionaries, and their families’ attempts to

prosecute the perpetrators, with a discussion led by Peter Rosenblum, Human Rights Program at Harvard

Law School and Gail Pellet, film director and producer.

“A Closer Walk”: AIDS Documentary (April 15, 2002)

A documentary chronicling the global HIV/AIDS pandemic through interviews with activists from around

the world. Post-film discussion led by Adam Taylor, director and co-founder of Global Justice and the

Student Global AIDS Campaign.

Kelly Askin, “Comfort women: Shifting shame

and stigma from victim to victimizer,” Int'l

Kelly Askin, “Chechnya: Another Battleground

for the Perpetration of Gender Based Crimes,”

Kelly Askin, “The Milosevic Trial”, Crimes of

War Project, March 13, 2002

(www.crimesofwar.org)

Jacqueline Bhabha, “Inconsistent State

Intervention and Separated Child Asylum-

Seekers,” European Journal of Migration and Law

3(2001).

Antonia Chayes, “Intervene When Mediation

Fails,” Washington Post, April 28, 2002.

Mario Gomez, “The Modern Benchmarks of Sri

Lankan Public Law,” South African Law Journal,

118(2001).

Michael Ignatieff, “The Rights Stuff,” New York

Michael Ignatieff, “No Exceptions?” Legal

Michael Ignatieff, “Why Bush Must Send in His

Troops,” The Guardian, April 19, 2002.

Michael Ignatieff, “Barbarians at the Gates?” The

Michael Ignatieff, “Is the Human Rights Era

Ending?” New York Times, February 5, 2002.

Michael Ignatieff, “Intervention and State

Failure,” Dissent, Winter 2002.

Michael Ignatieff, “Are Human Rights

Defensible?” Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec., 2001.

Michael Ignatieff, “What Will Victory Look

Like?” The Guardian, October 19, 2001.

Michael Ignatieff, “At the Border, What Will

Make Us Safe?” Washington Post, September 23,

2001.

New York Times Sunday Magazine, September 22,

2001.

Michael Ignatieff, “Paying for Security with

Liberty,” Financial Times, September 13, 2001.

Michael Ignatieff, “Blood Sisters,” New York

Michael Ignatieff, “How to Try Milosevic,” The

Samantha Power, “Raising the Cost of

Genocide,” Dissent, Spring 2002.

Samantha Power, “Genocide and America,” The

Samantha Power, “Bystanders to Genocide” TheAtlantic Monthly, September 2001. Winner of the

Sarah B. Sewall, “Confronting the Warlord

Culture,” The Boston Globe, June 6, 2002.

Sarah B. Sewall and Carl Kaysen, “Error by Bush

on World Court,” The Boston Globe, May 13,

2002.

Sarah B. Sewall, “Multilateral Peace

Operations”, in Stewart Patrick and Shepard

Forman, eds., Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign

Anne-Marie Slaughter and William Burke-White,

“The Future of Law,” Harvard International

Anne-Marie Slaughter, “A Defining Moment in

the Parsing of War” Washington Post, September

16, 2001.

In Our Own Best Interest” Human Rights

Cheryl Welch, “Tocqueville: Deliberating

Democracy,” in David Boucher and Paul Kelly,

eds., Political Thinkers: A History of Western