Confronting Evil: Torture, The Totality of Pain

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Introduction:

Ms. Lydia Alexander, EPIIC
Mr. John G. Healey

Moderator:

Mr. Ramin Arani, EPIIC

Poetry Readings

Dr. Marjorie Agosin
(harp, Ms. Lauren Lovelace, EPIIC)
Ms. Alicia Partnoy

Video Presentation "Torturers Speak"

Panelists:

Ms. Sheila Dauer

Director of Country Action, Amnesty International USA; Member, Amnesty International Women's Task Force; member, Amnesty International Commission on the status of women and human rights

Mr. Robert Duval

Former Head, League of Former Political Prisoners, Haiti; member, Task Force on the Bracero Situation (representing 15 non governmental organizations in dealing with forced Haitian labor in the Dominican Republic

Dr. Thomas Farer

Former President, InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, OAS; director, Joint Program in Law and International Affairs, American University; author, Towards a Human Diplomacy, The Laws of War 25 Years After Nuremberg and The Regulation of Foreign Intervention in Civil Armed Conflict

Dr. Rita Maran

Author, Torture: the Role of Ideology in the French-Algerian War and Torture: Tool for Governing--Interviews Around the Globe(in process); consultant, Human Rights Advocates

Mr. Benjamin Pogrund

A Chief Foreign Sub Editor, The Independent, London; former deputy editor, Rand Daily Mail, South Africa; he was the first African Affairs reporter in South Africa; author, Sobukwe and Apartheid

Dr. Elaine Scarry

Author, The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World--an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and social forces that confront it; professor of English, Harvard University

Ms. Susannah Sirkin

Associate Director, Physicians for Human Rights; former director, Membership Programs, Amnesty International USA

Interlocutor:

Mr. Lawrence Weschler