PON Film Series

The PON Film Series is a forum for discussing negotiation theory and practice through the analysis of conflicts depicted in documentary or feature films. The Film Series also presents and honors filmmakers whose films increase our understanding of negotiation and conflict transformation.

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The Last Just Man

PON Staff   •  04/20/2004   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

Film and Discussion with Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Romeo Dallaire
Former Force Commander, United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda

In 1994, 800,000 Rwandans were killed in just 100 days. Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, in Rwanda to put into place a peacekeeping force to ensure calm in a country in which a peace treaty between warring tribes had just been … Read The Last Just Man

PON Film Series: An Unreliable Witness

PON Staff   •  03/18/2004   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

The Program on Negotiation Film Series Presents…

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Film and Discussion with

Michael McHugh
Director

Don Mullan
Author, Eyewitness Bloody Sunday

Thursday, March 18
6:45pm
Langdell North
Harvard Law School
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Free Admission and Refreshments

An Unreliable Witness is a documentary that follows British journalist David Tereshchuk as he travels to Derry, Northern Ireland, to give testimony before the Saville Inquiry investigating the events … Read PON Film Series: An Unreliable Witness

Bloody Sunday

PON Staff   •  03/17/2004   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

The Program on Negotiation Film Series Joins Harvard University, The Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, and The Program on Justice in Times of Transition in Presenting…

Film and Discussion with:

Don Mullan
Producer and Author

Prof. Robert Mnookin
Harvard Law School

Over 150 people joined PON, the Human Rights Program and the Project for Justice in Times of Transition for … Read Bloody Sunday

Occupation

PON Staff   •  03/01/2004   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

The Program on Negotiation Film Series and The Harvard Law School Labor and Employment Action Project Present:

Occupation is a documentary that tells the powerful story of students and janitors who took on (and defeated) a powerful corporation and brought the living wage movement to the forefront of public awareness. The film is narrated by Ben … Read Occupation

Chocolat

PON Staff   •  02/12/2004   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

The Program on Negotiation Film Series Presents a Scrumptious Conflict Resolution Film:

Film and Discussion with
Jennifer L. Schulz
PON Fellow

Following the film, join PON fellow Jennifer Schulz for a discussion on how Hollywood portrays mediators. Jennifer is the former Assistant Director of the LLM in ADR Program at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

Free admission,
pizza, and chocolate! … Read Chocolat

12 Angry Men

PON Staff   •  11/17/2003   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

The Program on Negotiation 2003-2004 Film Series Presents A New Look At…

Film and Discussion with
Michael Wheeler
Harvard Business School

Over 80 people joined PON and Harvard Business School professor Michael Wheeler for a screening of 12 Angry Men, the classic film about 12 jurors deliberating a seemingly open and shut murder case.

Guest speaker Professor Wheeler discussed the … Read 12 Angry Men

I Am Sam

PON Staff   •  09/20/2003   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

Film and Discussion with
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown University
Law Center

Sitting in a crowded auditorium on September 16th, law students and other guests were unable to avoid tears as they watched and discussed the personal ramifications of the legal system as represented in the film I Am Sam, the Program on Negotiation’s debut film for the 2003-04 Film Series.

Guest … Read I Am Sam

Three Kings

PON Staff   •  04/22/2003   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

Film and Discussion with:
Robert Bordone
Lecturer on Law
Harvard Law School

IT IS IRAQ, 1991, AND THE FIRST GULF WAR IS OVER…

Amid the celebration and confusion, four United States soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze), head off into the Iraqi desert to find millions in stolen Kuwaiti bullion. They are plunged into the heart … Read Three Kings

Arab and Jew: Return to the Promised Land

PON Staff   •  03/27/2003   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

Film and Discussion with
Eileen Babbitt
Assistant Professor
of International Politics
Fletcher School
of Law & Diplomacy

Behind the political events in the Middle East are the ordinary Israeli and Palestinian civilians living in the midst of violent conflict and continual uncertainty. In 1988, Baltimore filmmaker Robert Gardner and Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times Middle East correspondent David K. Shipler … Learn More About This Program

No Man’s Land

PON Staff   •  02/26/2003   •  Filed in Events, PON Film Series

Film and Discussion with
Danis Tanovic
Bosnian Director

and Harvard Law School Professor
Robert Mnookin

Set in the midst of the recent Balkan wars, No Man’s Land is a powerful account of the relationship that develops between two enemy soldiers—a Serb and a Bosnian—who are trapped together in the same trench. When the United Nations begrudgingly decides to come to … Read No Man’s Land

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