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FALL 2007 OCTOBER October 13, 12 Noon (Homecoming Weekend) October 19, 12:45 PM Mark Hanis is Executive Director of the Genocide Intervention Network, an organization that seeks to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Co-sponsored by the Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the UC Berkeley chapter of STAND. October 24, 3 PM to 4:30 PM International human rights intersects with every facet of daily life: health, politics, quality of life, the environment and culture. Professionals in the field give their insights about what is important for success in the field and how you can prepare yourself for international human rights work through internships and other experiences. Panelists include Nicole Brewer (China Global Program Associate, International Rivers Network), Diana Pei Wu (Director of Education & Capacity Building, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights), and Rohan Radhakrishna (UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program, American Medical Students Association Health and Human Rights Coordinator). Moderated by Rachel Shigekane, Senior Program Officer, Human Rights Center and Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies. October 25, 4 PM to 6 PM Read the press release or download the report. Co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies. October 29, 4 PM to 5:15 PM October 31, 12 Noon Human rights reporting typically relies on qualitative data to reveal the extent and causes of human rights abuses and their impact on victims. Qualitative data has been critical in providing a three-dimensional portrayal of the experiences of individuals, however, it does not reveal much about the scope of the crisis, patterns of violence, and how people are affected broadly. Dr. Vinck will discuss his use of quantitative methodologies to gain a more accurate picture of how civilians are affected by the civil war in northern Uganda, the experiences of child soldiers conscripted to serve in rebel forces in northern Uganda, and the conditions under which construction workers labor in rebuilding post-Katrina New Orleans. NOVEMBER November 1, 10 AM to 5 PM The twelve Human Rights Fellows of 2007 will present the results of their fieldwork, which took them to ten different countries around the world. Fellows worked with organizations on topics ranging from rights of Guantanamo detainees to gender-based asylum claims in South Africa to the rights of the deaf in India. November 1, 5 PM to 7:30 PM In this lecture, Maass will discuss his journey into Iraq at an early turning point: the invasion of 2003 and its aftermath. On the first morning of the invasion, Maass witnessed a wave of looting in the border town of Safwan. After the Marines he was following mistakenly killed a number of civilians while seizing a bridge outside Baghdad, Maass watched these same troops tear down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square. Once the looting of Baghdad subsided, Maass travelled to Najaf and met with Moqtada al-Sadr, who was beginning to consolidate his power base. Maass will discuss how Iraq’s disintegration was visible even in its earliest post-Saddam days. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. November 1, 6 PM In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the existence of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished, global slavery stubbornly persists. In his new book, Ending Slavery, Bales again presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction and freedom for the 27 million people currently held in slavery worldwide. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts the lives and stories of todays slaves, and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery. President of the human rights organization Free the Slaves, he joins the Council to discuss what is needed to bring global slavery to an end and how to rebuild the lives of freed slaves and victims of human trafficking. Sponsored by the World Affairs Council. Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center. November 7, 4 PM to 6 PM Peter Maass will discuss the difficulties reporters confront as they cover war crimes in the world’s conflict zones. Drawing on first-hand experience in the Middle East and the Balkans, Maass will describe his methods for dealing with wary soldiers and freelance insurgents. He will describe his efforts to chronicle the killings of civilians by American Marines during the Iraq invasion, as well as his detention by Serbian paramilitaries while looking for a secret prison camp in Bosnia. His talk will illuminate the realities of reporting in war zones where armies and insurgents alike often regard reporters as hostile partisans. Co-sponsored by International and Area Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Graduate School of Journalism.
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