A Lecture and Conversation with Journalist David Rohde

Join us on Tuesday March 15th at 7pm in Barnum 008 for a lecture and presentation by David Rohde, award-winning journalist for the New York Times and author of A Rope and Prayer. Mr. Rohde's lecture is the first event of The Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, a new initiative of the Institute for Global Leadership directed by Gary Knight, co-founder of VII Photo Agency.

For more information on the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, see the following link:

http://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/news/2010-12-09-the-igl-launches-program-narrative-and-documentary-practice-led-photojournalist-gary

David Rohde's Biography

David Rohde (born 1967) is an American author and investigative journalist for The New York Times.

While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. Rohde was the first outside eyewitness of the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre when he traveled to the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica and Zepa in August 1995. In 1997, Rohde published a widely acclaimed account of the massacre, Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II.

At The New York Times, Rohde has written about peacekeeping efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has reported among other things on the hardships endured by men detained and released from the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. During 2004 and 2005 he wrote extensively on the treatment of detainees at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. He also broke the story of the full extent of the US Government's roundup of American Muslims following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

From July 2002 until December 2004, he was co-chief of the Times' South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi, India. He shared a second Pulitzer Prize for Times 2008 team coverage of
Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In April 2009, Rohde shared in a second Pulitzer Prize, awarded to the staff of the New York Times for "its masterful, ground- breaking coverage of America's deepening military and political challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reporting frequently done under perilous conditions."

In November 2008, while in Afghanistan doing research for a book, Rohde and two associates were kidnapped by members of the Taliban. After being held captive for seven months and ten days, in June 2009 Rohde and one of his associates escaped and made their way to safety. Rohde details this experience in his latest book, A Rope and a Prayer (2010), co-written with his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, to whom he had been married for two months at the time of his kidnapping.