Introduced by award-winning Photojournalist Ron Haviv and award-winning Producer Fiona Turner.

How can international law best balance the demands of peace and justice as it addresses the most intractable international conflicts affecting our global community? Can our greater international law system function separate from the influence of politics?

Director Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 movie The Battle of Algiers concerns the violent struggle in the late 1950s for Algerian independence from France, where the film was banned on its release for fear of creating civil disturbances. Certainly, the heady, insurrectionary mood of the film, enhanced by a relentlessly pulsating Ennio Morricone soundtrack, makes for an emotionally high temperature throughout. Decades later, the advent of the "war against terror" has only intensified the film's relevance.

Sudan

Guest Lecturer: Alex de Waal

Famine in Somalia: Causes, Consequences, Response, and Questions Arising with Dan Maxwell, Research Director for Food Security and Complex Emergencies, Feinstein International Center and Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition, and Merry Fitzpatrick, Friedman School of Nutrition

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
MUGAR 231
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