Nationalism

October 11, 2006
Speaker: Robert H. Mnookin, Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Presented by: Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution (CISCDR)

Summary: The CISCDR Distinguished Scholar-in Residence Lecture

Professor Mnookin will reflect upon his recent involvement as mediator in both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conflict in Belgium between the French-speaking Walloons and Dutch-speaking Flemish.

A leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution, Professor Mnookin has applied his interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict resolution to a remarkable range of problems in the public and private sectors. He has taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms throughout the world and trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills, in addition to serving as a consultant to governments, international agencies, major corporations and law firms. He has resolved numerous complex commercial disputes as a neutral arbitrator or mediator. At Harvard Law School, he also serves as the chair of the Steering Committee of the Program on Negotiation, and as the director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project.

Duration : 1:13:32

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April 8, 2005
Speakers: David Little, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict and Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard Divinity School
Ramez Islambouli, Adjunct Professor, Case School of Law and Director, Islamic Campus Ministry, Case Western Reserve University
Moderator: Calvin William Sharpe, John Deaver Drinko Baker & Hostetler Professor, Case School of Law

Presented by: Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
Co-sponsored by CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution)

Summary: From the experience of post-colonial states in Asia and Africa to more recent experience in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the conceptual clarity and goals of nation building have been difficult to achieve. Beyond the international recognition of what Benedict Anderson called an imagined community, what are the desirable features of the nation under construction, and what, if any, is the appropriate role of the international community in designing, financing, and building them? How should the government be chosen, and powers separated between branches, allocated between the center and the regions, or shared by competing ethnic or religious groups? What are the necessary tools of conflict resolution? How critical is the role of women? Is religion a divisive or unifying force? What is the role of the United States, the United Nations, or the international financial institutions? With a view to comparative experience, a candid look at Iraq, and perspectives on the future, this unique day-long symposium will bring several world-leading experts together to address these fundamental questions.

Duration : 1:21:11

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April 8, 2005
Speakers: Sean Hagan, General Counsel & Director, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund
Linn Hammergren, Senior Public Sector Management Specialist, Latin America Regional Department, World Bank
Moderator: Michael Scharf, Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Professor of Law, Case School of Law
Presented by: Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
Co-sponsored by CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution)

Summary: From the experience of post-colonial states in Asia and Africa to more recent experience in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the conceptual clarity and goals of nation building have been difficult to achieve. Beyond the international recognition of what Benedict Anderson called an imagined community, what are the desirable features of the nation under construction, and what, if any, is the appropriate role of the international community in designing, financing, and building them? How should the government be chosen, and powers separated between branches, allocated between the center and the regions, or shared by competing ethnic or religious groups? What are the necessary tools of conflict resolution? How critical is the role of women? Is religion a divisive or unifying force? What is the role of the United States, the United Nations, or the international financial institutions? With a view to comparative experience, a candid look at Iraq, and perspectives on the future, this unique day-long symposium will bring several world-leading experts together to address these fundamental questions.

Duration : 0:46:24

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La participación de la sociedad durante la lucha de independencia

Erick van Young

Casi tenemos una situación de una guerra civil. Se ha disfrazado mucho, porque sí sabemos cuál fue la ideología explícita. Tenemos una situación casi de guerra civil, que siempre se ha disfrazado por la lucha anticolonial, pero en ese sentido, tenemos una situación bastante más compleja, como es toda una movilización enorme, como ocurrió en la Nueva España, o en otra revolución, como en la Revolución de 1910, que también muchas veces se ha visto como una lucha de alguna manera clasista para «derrumbar a los privilegiados» —o por lo menos algunos aspectos de eso—, pero sabemos muy bien que en la Revolución de 1910 hubo varios grupos luchando por el poder, varias tendencias, y también tenemos eso en la década de la insurgencia, y para subrayar, casi una situación de guerra civil en la que los líderes están luchando por un fin, para empezar, para tener más autonomía política dentro del esquema de la monarquía universal española y llegar a la postura de la independencia.

Ellos luchan para eso, para, en las famosas palabras del politólogo Benedict Anderson, construir una comunidad imaginada, una comunidad horizontal que abarque toda la República, toda la sociedad, para convertir a la sociedad en nación, pero los grupos comunes, o la mayor parte, en mi planteamiento —la gente indígena—, luchan para defender sus propias comunidades, comunidades que en algún sentido eran antecedentes al concepto de una nación, o incluso al concepto de una monarquía o una colonia, con ese sentido tan intenso de localismo que he llamado «localocentrismo».

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Eric van Young, doctor en historia, profesor de la Universidad de California en San Diego.
Se ha especializado en la historia agraria del México colonial, la guerra de Independencia
y la historia cultural, social y política del siglo XIX.

Portal de la Revolución Mexicana http://www.bicentenario.gob.mx/revolucion/

Duration : 0:2:56

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April 8, 2005
Speaker: Gerald Korngold, Dean and McCurdy Professor of Law, Case School of Law
Presented by: Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
Co-sponsored by CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution)

Summary: From the experience of post-colonial states in Asia and Africa to more recent experience in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the conceptual clarity and goals of nation building have been difficult to achieve. Beyond the international recognition of what Benedict Anderson called an imagined community, what are the desirable features of the nation under construction, and what, if any, is the appropriate role of the international community in designing, financing, and building them? How should the government be chosen, and powers separated between branches, allocated between the center and the regions, or shared by competing ethnic or religious groups? What are the necessary tools of conflict resolution? How critical is the role of women? Is religion a divisive or unifying force? What is the role of the United States, the United Nations, or the international financial institutions? With a view to comparative experience, a candid look at Iraq, and perspectives on the future, this unique day-long symposium will bring several world-leading experts together to address these fundamental questions.

Duration : 0:4:47

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April 8, 2005
Peter H. Schuck, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Chibli Mallat; Professor, EU Jean Monnet Chair in European Law & Director, Centre for the Study of the European Union, Université Saint-Joseph; Avocat à la Cour, Principal, Mallat Law Offices, Beirut, Lebanon
Moderator: Jacqueline Lipton, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Cox Center
Presented by: Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
Co-sponsored by CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution)

Summary: From the experience of post-colonial states in Asia and Africa to more recent experience in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the conceptual clarity and goals of nation building have been difficult to achieve. Beyond the international recognition of what Benedict Anderson called an imagined community, what are the desirable features of the nation under construction, and what, if any, is the appropriate role of the international community in designing, financing, and building them? How should the government be chosen, and powers separated between branches, allocated between the center and the regions, or shared by competing ethnic or religious groups? What are the necessary tools of conflict resolution? How critical is the role of women? Is religion a divisive or unifying force? What is the role of the United States, the United Nations, or the international financial institutions? With a view to comparative experience, a candid look at Iraq, and perspectives on the future, this unique day-long symposium will bring several world-leading experts together to address these fundamental questions.

Duration : 1:16:13

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http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/

Speaking to an audience at the Audobon Ballroom in Washington Heights on March 29, 1964, Malcolm X explains: “If you’re interested in freedom, you need some judo, you need some karate–you need all the things that will help you fight for freedom…They can give us the back pay. Let’s join in. If this is what the negro wants, let’s join him. Let’s show him how to struggle, let’s show him how to fight. Let’s show him how to bring about a real revolution. You don’t need a debate. You don’t need a filibuster. You need some action.”

http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/

Duration : 0:3:43

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