The Human Rights Center, the Institute of International Studies,
the Graduate School of Journalism, and the School of Law (Boalt Hall) present

photo by Gilles Peress

Reporting from the Killing Fields

A Conference on Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, and War

April 10-11, 1997 University of California at Berkeley

Thursday, April 10

Exposing Crimes Against Humanity: The Role of the Media Public Lecture by Justice Richard Goldstone   Booth Auditorium, the School of Law (Boalt Hall) University of California at Berkeley 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

P A R T I C I P A N T S

RICHARD GOLDSTONE is a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. From August 1994 to September 1996, he served as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

THELTON E. HENDERSON is the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.

ARYEH NEIER is President of the Soros Foundation and the Open Society Institute. Previously, he was the founding Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.

TINA ROSENBERG is an editorial writer with the New York Times. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for her book The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism.

Friday, April 11

Reporting from the Killing Fields

A Conference on Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War

Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
University of California at Berkeley

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

P A R T I C I P A N T S

ROUBEN ADALIAN is president of the Armenian National Institute in Washington, D.C.

SONJA BIERSKO has investigated and reported on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia for several non-governmental organizations. She is currently chairperson of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia.

RAYMOND BONNER is a foreign correspondent with the New York Times. He has reported on war and social unrest in many regions of the world.

ALISON DES FORGES, an historian by training, has served as a consultant on Rwanda and Burundi to Human Rights Watch since 1991. She has testified as an expert witness before the International Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania.

DAVID GELBER is executive producer of CBS specials with Ed Bradley. Previously, he reported on the war in Bosnia for Peter Jennings Reporting at ABC News.

TOM GJELTEN is diplomatic correspondent for National Public Radio. From 1991 to 1994, his major assignment was in the former Yugoslavia, where he covered the Serb-Croat conflict in Croatia and the war in Bosnia.

ROY GUTMAN is a correspondent with Newsday. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his reporting on Bosnia.

JEAN-MARIE HIGIRO is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Communications at Miami University. From August 1993 to April 1994, he was director of the Rwandan Information Office.

LINDSEY HILSUM is a diplomatic correspondent for Channel Four News, a program of Independent Television News (ITN) in London. From 1994 to 1996 she reported for the BBC, The Guardian and The Observer from Central Africa.

ADAM HOCHSCHILD is a writer and co-founder of Mother Jones magazine. His most recent book is The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin.

BEN KIERNAN is a Professor of History at Yale University. He has written extensively about the Khmer Rouge and Cambodian political history.

KERWIN LEE KLEIN is on the faculty of the Department of History at the University of California at Berkeley.

THOMAS LAQUEUR is a Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley.

DIANE ORENTLICHER is on the faculty of the Washington College of Law at American University.

GILLES PERESS is a photographer with Magnum Photos. His most recent books include Farewell to Bosnia and The Silence, an account of the genocide in Rwanda.

DAVID RIEFF is a freelance writer who publishes regularly in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Foreign Affairs. His most recent book is Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West.

NAOMI ROHT-ARRIAZA is an Associate Professor of Law at Hastings College of Law, University of California.

ORVILLE SCHELL is Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

STAN SESSER is a freelance writer and Senior Fellow at the Human Rights Center, University of California at Berkeley.

ERIC STOVER is the Director of the Human Rights Center and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. He has investigated war crimes in the former Yugoslavia since 1992.

LAWRENCE WESCHLER has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1981. His most recent book is Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder.

THE SILENCE