Film Screening and Panel: The New Barbarianism

Date:

Monday, February 5, 2018, 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Malkin Penthouse, L-P-9 Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Please join the Carr Center for a very special event: A screening of The New Barbarianism, followed by a panel and reception.

Healthcare and humanitarian workers are increasingly in the crosshairs as hospitals and aid centers have become part of the battlefield in today’s wars. So far, there has been little to stop the profound surge of violence seen across several open-ended conflicts which has claimed thousands of lives, destroyed health systems, triggered mass displacement and state collapse, and exposed the crisis facing the norms of international humanitarian law contained in the Geneva Conventions. The New Barbarianism is a feature documentary that examines the crisis, its causes, the limited international response and possible ways forward through dozens of interviews and original footage obtained from inside Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.

Event Specifics:

6:30 Welcome and Intro

6:35 - 7:35 Film Screening, including intro to film by co-director Justin Kenny

7:35 - 8:30 Panel and Q&A

8:30 - 9:00 Reception

Panelists:

Margaret Bourdeaux

MD Director of the Threatened Health System Project
Associate Physician Brigham and Women’s Division of Global Health Equity
Instructor Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Change

Jennifer Leaning

MD, SMH, Director of the Harvard Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

Susannah Sirkin

Director for International Policy, Physicians for Human Rights
Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Steering Board

Moderator
	J. Stephen Morrison Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies Film co-director and executive producer